Via online issue. 4 pages., Community in Georgia hosts a festival to support a peanut industry under criticism because of a salmonella outbreak involving peanut butter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28949
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1 page., A nutrition scientist criticizes the soundness of a peer reviewed journal article about genetic modification and urges an agricultural reporter to read such articles critically and weigh their merits. A response from the Network follows.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Reports the impact of internet communications in revealing a problem of infant milk being tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical illegally added.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29127
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Archived June 24, 2009, Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network. 2 pages., "When consumers go online for information about the production practices that put meat on their tables, they are more likely to see the kind of one-sided content featured in the documentary 'Food, Inc.' than content reflecting the views of conventional producers or major food brands." Report of research by v-Fluence.
