Center for Food Safety | Policy Comments | | CFS comments to the US Trade Representative concerning the proposed Transatlantic

May 10th, 2013

CFS comments to the US Trade Representative concerning the proposed Transatlantic Trade and investment Partnership (TTIP), Docket No. USTR-2013-0019)

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April 29th, 2013

| GE Foods

Comments to aphis on petition for determination of nonregulated status of soybean genetically engineered for resistance to hppd inhibitor herbicides (Docket No. APHIS-2012-0090)

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April 29th, 2013

| GE Foods

CFS Comments to USDA APHIS on Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment for Dupont-Pioneer Petition for Determination of Nonregulated Status of Insect Resistant and Herbicide Resistant Pioneer Maize (Docket No. APHIS-2012-0026)

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April 29th, 2013

| GE Trees

CFS comments regarding the Petition for Determination of Nonregulated Status for genetically engineered, Freeze Tolerant Hybrid Eucalyptus Lines (Docket No. APHIS-2012-0030)

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April 29th, 2013

| GE Foods

Comments to aphis on petition for determination of nonregulated status of cotton genetically engineered for resistance to the herbicides dicamba and glufosinate (Docket No. APHIS-2012-0090)

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April 26th, 2013

| GE Fish

Comments from CFS and Earthjustice to FDA opposing approval of genetically engineered, AquAdvantage salmon (Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0899)

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April 26th, 2013

| GE Fish

Letter and comments to FDA from leading animals welfare organizations opposing approval of genetically engineered, AquAdvantage salmon (Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0899)

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April 26th, 2013

| GE Fish

Letter to FDA opposing approval of genetically engineered, AquAdvantage salmon from CFS, Greenpeace, American Rivers, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Ocean Conservancy (Docket No. FDA-2011-N-0899)

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April 24th, 2013

| GE Fish

Letters to FDA regarding potential approval of GE salmon co-signed by twelve U.S. Senators, twenty members of the US House

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April 8th, 2013

| Food Safety

CFS comments to USDA regarding the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (Docket No. FNS-2011-0019)

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March 28th, 2013

| Pollinators & Pesticides

Comments to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation opposing approval of the neonicotinoid insecticide BelayÂ® for use on rice in the state

March 19th, 2013

CFS comments to the National Organic Standards Board regarding antibiotics in apple and pear growing, sugar beet fiber, excluded methods and genetic engineering, among other issues

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February 27th, 2013

| Animal Factories

Comments to EPA on National Enforcement Initiatives for fiscal years 2014-2016 (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OECA-2012-0956)

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February 27th, 2013

| Animal Factories

Comments to EPA on Regulatory Flexibility Act section 610 Review of National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitation Guidelines Standards for CAFOs (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OW-2012-0813)

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February 13th, 2013

| GE Foods

CFS comments to EPA on the registration review of 2,4-D

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February 12th, 2013

| Pollinators & Pesticides

CFS comments to EPA opposing the proposed conditional registration of neonicotinoid-like pesticide Sulfoxaflor

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