Fisher, Ann (author) and Chitose, Atsushi (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 113 Document Number: C11066
Notes:
University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University. Baseline survey of professionals in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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)
Online from publication. 2 pages., Identification of produce items cited as problematic and acceptable by the Environmental Working Group. Article indicates that more than 99 percent of produce samples tested for these reports have residue levels that are compliant with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards (which EWG considers insufficient).
Frewer, Lynn J. (author), Kher, Swaroop V. (author), De Jonge, Janneke (author), Wentholt, Meike (author), Davies, Olivia Howell (author), and Luijckx, Niels B. Lucas (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C36123
Online via UI Library electronic subscription., Authors used data from Eurobarometer surveys to examine factors that condition citizens' attitudes toward genetically modified foods in 15 European Union member states. Strongest findings confirmed the importance of public understanding of science as a basis for support for this emerging technology.
