Reports on a court action requiring the USDA to release information identifying persons with whom officials met before they loosened rules on testing meat for deadly bacteria. "The agency did an about-face on the Listeria regulations, and the Consumer Federation of America suspected the change was due to ex parte communications with industry representatives from the meat and poultry industries, CFA lawyer Jillian M. Cutler told the RCFP." (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Center for Media and Democracy, Madison, Wisconsin
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28104
Notes:
Via PR Watch.Org. 1 page., Examines merging of two food industry websites - Best Food Nation and Grow America Project - into that of the Center for Food Integrity.
