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May 7, 2008
Center for Food Safety and Food and Water Watch Seek Attorneys' General Action to Prevent Deceptive Practice of Labeling Fish as "Organic"
March 27, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety file emergency petitions with the states of Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas to ban commercial turtle harvesting in public and private waters, to prevent further population declines of native southern turtle populations, and to protect public health. Turtles collected in these states and sold as food are often contaminated with mercury, PCBs, and pesticides.
February 12, 2008
California Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court's Judgement in Farm Raised Salmon Cases. Center for Food Safety Applauds the Decision, which Vindicates Consumers' Right to Know.
View Press Release
View Supreme Court Ruling
July 11, 2007
CFS files complaint and legal petition with USDA urging the agency to enforce the integrity of the organic food label by preventing the misleading labeling of imported seafood as "organic," despite there being no U.S. organic standards for seafood.
View Press Release
View Legal Petition to USDA
View Appendix A: Examples of companies marketing "organic" seafood in the U.S.
View letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting FTC take action to prevent misleading labeling of "organic" fish
May 8, 2007
Amicus Curiae request on case involving consumers' right to know about the use of artificial dyes in farm-raised salmon
View Amicus request
View supporting CFS report The Catch with Seafood
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