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Homeland Security: An Overall Strategy Is Needed to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Livestock and Poultry

(GAO) Under a new approach, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has begun broadening its previous disease-by-disease approach to disease surveillance to one in which the agency monitors the overall health of livestock and poultry and uses additional sources and types of data to better detect and control Read More »

May 22, 2013
| Filed under Agriculture, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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Agroterrorism: Attacking with food – Medill Reports: Chicago

Medill Reports: ChicagoAgroterrorism: Attacking with foodMedill Reports: ChicagoRicin, a derivative of castor beans, was the poison in this case of agroterrorism. “This is the terrorism of the past and a potential arena for the future,” said Dr. Jerrold Leikin, director of medical toxicology at NorthShore University HealthSystem …

May 21, 2013
| Filed under Agriculture
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‘Agro-terrorism: One of the greatest terrorist threats we face’: Prof

(Dairy Reporter) Top public health professor David Dausey warns that increasing global supply chain complexity carries with it a greater risk of product contamination, with potentially disastrous results for dairy brands and public health, and a growing need to ensure product safety.

May 21, 2013
| Filed under Agriculture
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US high court rules against soybean farmer in seed-patent case

(Nature) The US Supreme Court has issued a unanimous ruling today that a soybean farmer violated patents when he planted genetically modified soybeans without first paying the intellectual property holder.

May 14, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Policy & Initiatives
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Genetically modified Crops and Food Security

(TimesofAssam) The biotechnologically manipulated gene combination, occurring in genetically modified crops owns the potential to overcome several threats of food insecurity, by uprooting the drawbacks of traditional agriculture practices. Economic solutions aside, GM crops with higher yields, better resistance to pests and weeds, shorter maturation periods, tolerance to drastic climatic challenges and possibly added nutrition Read More »