A number of industry groups petitioned a federal appeals court last month to review the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s final rule published earlier this year that revised Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) hazard communication standard.
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Agriculture and business support for a transatlantic free trade agreement between the United States and the European Union may be gaining momentum, but comments from U.S. and EU officials suggest that these interests may have to settle for something less ambitious, according to various published reports.
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USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is reopening through July 12 the comment period on a January 2012 interim rule that prohibits or restricts importing of birds and poultry products from regions where any subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza is considered to exist.
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The most frequent health-focused, on-package claims for new products in the food and beverage industry last year was “kosher,” appearing on 27 percent of new products, more than twice as often as the second most popular claim, “all-natural,” according to Mintel Global New Products Database.
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