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Daily News Update, Dec. 6, 2007
Report says stingy funding has put FDA in crisis
The Food and Drug
Administration is losing its ability to keep up with scientific
advances and its information technology systems are obsolete and
unreliable according to a new report by a special FDA committee. The
bottom line is that "American lives are at risk," says the 60-page
report.
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USDA announces
beef promotion board appointments.
Thirty-nine appointees to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and
Research Board were announced Dec. 6 by Acting Agriculture Secretary
Chuck Conner. Several of the new appointees are members of Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association...
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Plans for Oklahoma
beef plant shelved for now
Smithfield announced last October plans for a $200 million
processing plant near Hooker, Okla., with groundbreaking to be held
in January. Spokesman Lyle Orwig says it could be three to five
years before a decision is made.
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Errata
Yesterday's news item on wind
farms from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times names the
Armstrong Ranch as a party to the suit against Texas Land
Commissioner Jerry
Patterson. TSCRA Director Katharine
Armstrong informs us that is not correct. Armstrong ranch is not
part of the lawsuit.
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