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Get Cookin’! Recipe Contest to Celebrate Sustainable & Healthy Seafood*

September 4, 2008

Press Release: Today, consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch launches its Get Cookin’! recipe contest, calling for the tastiest, healthiest and most sustainable seafood recipes around. Next month, the group will be releasing its new “Smart Seafood Guide” to help consumers make better seafood choices. The Guide recommends cleaner, greener, safer substitutes for popular, but often less sustainable and healthy, seafood items. With a preview version of the card available online, cooks – from creative kids to sophisticated chefs, busy moms to bachelors – are encouraged to submit their original recipes using any of the fish selections recommended on the card. Full rules and submission guidelines can be found online at www.foodandwaterwatch.org/getcookin.

Mexico Stops Exporting Meat After USDA Audit Reveals “Systemic” Food Safety Problems

September 4, 2008

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter: Mexico finally curbed exports of meat and poultry products from meatpacking plants with widespread safety problems, after weeks of diplomatic wrangling with American food safety regulators. A USDA audit of 11 Mexican meat plants found nearly two thirds had systemic safety problems including inadequate sanitation and government inspection procedures.

Food & Water Watch to Take Back the Tap at Slow Food Nation: 50,000 People to Say No to Bottled Water at Landmark Bottled Water-Free Event

August 28, 2008

San Francisco, CA—Tomorrow, some 50,000 people will enjoy access to clean, safe tap water at Slow Food Nation thanks to Food & Water Watch. The consumer advocacy group is partnering with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to develop accessible and visible water stations at the festival. Water stations will serve filtered municipal tap water using state of the art technology from US Pure Water/The Water Store and will display visual materials to educate attendees about San Francisco’s watershed and the campaign to promote tap water consumption.

Salmonella Contamination – Is Irradiation the Solution?

June 13, 2008

Executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, Hauter said today: "As stores and restaurants around the country pull tomatoes from shelves and menus in response to the recent salmonella outbreak, American tomato farmers are poised to lose their livelihoods and the food irradiation industry sees dollar signs.

Book Signing Event: Groundbreaking Food Irradiation Book

June 5, 2008

Author Wenonah Hauter, of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, will be reading from and signing her book at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC.

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