The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced two public meetings with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to hear stakeholder input on collective efforts to reduce illness, harm and death from contaminated food. Extensions of an initial workshop held in March 2010, the meetings will be held July 21, in Chicago, Illinois, and October 20 in Portland, Oregon. Presentations are expected from consumer groups, industry, public health experts, and state and local regulators on recommended measures for assessing food safety performance. CDC, FDA and FSIS will present information on the Food Safety Working Group’s “charge to create meaningful metrics to measure the effectiveness of the nation’s food safety system,” according to USDA. The agencies will also “present current thinking, focusing on how these metrics might be applied to evaluate the success of FDA’s shell…
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Bolivian President Evo Morales attracted international media attention when he publicly linked “deviances in being men” on hormones once used to raise chickens. Speaking at the World People’s Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, Morales reportedly claimed that “the chicken we eat is loaded with female hormones. So, when men eat those chickens, they experience deviances in being men.” According to an April 22, 2010, blog post in The Guardian, Morales added that these substances have also been associated with baldness. After the speech drew widespread criticism from both the press and human rights activists, who interpreted the remark as homophobic, the Bolivian Foreign Relations Ministry issued a statement defending the president’s position. “He made no mention of sexuality,” the ministry was quoted as saying. Rather, he said that eating chicken that has hormones changes our own bodies. This point of view has been confirmed by…
