Center for Food Safety | Fact Sheets | Actions for the Biden Administration

Center for Food Safety (CFS) is urging the Biden Administration to act during its first 180 days to overturn the previous administration's systematic weakening or elimination of regulations and laws that protect the environment and our food su.

July 1st, 2019

| Animal Factories

| Food & Climate

Consumers' Guide to Meatless Burgers

Choosing to reduce or eliminate meat from our diet is a great way to reduce the environmental, social, health, and economic impacts of intensive animal production.

March 3rd, 2020

| Organic & Beyond

| Center for Food Safety Files Legal Action to Prohibit Hydroponics from Organic

Why Hydroponics Should Not Be Certified Organic

Hydroponics are crops that are grown in nutrient-rich solutions rather than soil. The United States Department of Agriculture currently allows hydroponic production to be certified organic .

March 2nd, 2020

| Hemp CBD Products

| Certifications and Additional Resources

Hemp CBD Products: March 2020 Scorecard

Center for Food Safety's "Hemp CBD Scorecard" evaluates many of the top hemp CBD producers on their production and processing methods, testing protocols, and transparency to consumers.

July 15th, 2019

| Pacific Northwest

The Urgent Case for a Moratorium on Mega-Dairies in Oregon

The expansion of large-scale dairy operations in Oregon poses increasing risks to human health and the environment.

Shellfish Aquaculture in Washington: Pesticides, Plastics, and Pollution Impacts to Our Environment

Washington is the leading U.S. producer of farmed bivalves, with a nearly $150 million industry in 2013. As the production of shellfish in Washington intensifies, more of the natural tidelands are being converted to shellfish production.

False Promises and Hidden Impacts of Dairy Digesters

Dairy digesters are facilities that create biogas, also known as biomethane, from wet manure from large, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The gas is then injected into pipelines or, possibly, used as transportation fuel.

October 15th, 2018

| Food Safety

Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Since Enactment of FSMA on January 4th, 2011

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated one in six Americans, (48 million people), becomes ill from foodborne diseases each year.

September 20th, 2018

| Nanotechnology

All You Need to Know on Nano (English-Language Comic)

All You Need to Know on Nano (English-Language Comic) - JUST SCROLL DOWN! Download as PDF >> Originally published on VeilleNanos.fr

September 14th, 2018

| Center for Food Safety Launches EndIndustrialMeat.org to Reduce Climate Change and Transform the U.S. Food System

| Animal Factories

Opt Out Of Industrial Meat

This fact sheet is based on the 2018 Center for Food Safety report, Opting Out of Industrial Meat: How to Stand Against Cruelty, Secrecy, and Chemical Dependency in Food Animal Production .

May 14th, 2018

| GE Food Labeling

| 2018 Proposed GE Labeling Rule: Summary

2018 Proposed GE Labeling Rule: Summary

On May 3, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited proposed regulations for the mandatory disclosure of foods produced using genetic engineering (GE).

April 24th, 2018

Real-World Biotechnology: GMOs by the Numbers

With a veritable sea of ink spilled over the GMO issue, one is hard put to find facts as basic as "GMOs for what?" As it turns out, if you randomly plucked 10 GM plants from various countries where they are grown throughout the world, ch.

February 12th, 2018

| GE Foods

FAQs about Monsantoâ€™s Dicamba-Resistant Crops and XtendiMax

Learn about the weed-killing pesticide – dicamba – that drifted rampantly to injure crops on millions of acres in the 2017 crop season.

January 9th, 2018

| Pollinators & Pesticides

Pollinator-Friendly Plants to Choose

Bees and other beneficial pollinators are disappearing at alarming rates. While we may not know the exact cause of the disappearance, we do know that some pesticides are contributing to their decline.

December 7th, 2017

| Seeds

| Seed Saving Resources

6 Tips for Saving Seeds

Seed saving is fundamental to preserving biodiversity, plant genetic diversity, and protecting our food independence. For millennia, people around the world have been collecting, processing, storing, and saving seeds.

October 30th, 2017

| GE Foods

| Pollinators & Pesticides

CFS comments on the Arkansas State Plant Board's Proposal to Restrict Dicamba Use

Twenty-five states have reported millions of acres of crops damaged this season by rampant drift of highly volatile dicamba herbicides applied to Monsanto’s genetically-engineered, dicamba-resistant crops.

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