In comments jointly filed yesterday with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the National Chicken Council, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, and National Turkey Federation expressed their strong support for USTR’s action via the World Trade Organization (WTO) to have India remove its non-tariff trade barriers for U.S. poultry and related products.
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ABC World News on its Wednesday evening broadcast reported about USDA’s proposed poultry inspection rule based on claims from “whistleblower” inspectors and a Food & Water Watch lobbyist who made allegations that poultry plants attempt to skew food-safety tests by adding extra “cleaning agents” such as bleach to the birds when companies know tests are to be performed.
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“Chickens in the United States produced for meat are not given arsenic as an additive in chicken feed or any of the compounds or banned antibiotics claimed in the column,” said NCC President Mike Brown in a letter to the editor of the New York Times published Sunday, April 15, in response to a Nicholas D. Kristof opinion piece, “Arsenic in Our Chicken?.”
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NCC this week joined a diverse group of business associations, consumer protection organizations, hunger and development organizations, agricultural groups, environmental groups, budget hawks, grassroots groups and free marketers to oppose the Domestic Fuels Act of 2012, which would provide liability protection for retailers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers for any problems that occur as a result of using 15 percent ethanol in engine fuel (E15), a mix recently approved for use by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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