Food Safety Modernization Act
Signed a joint letter to U.S. senators urging support for an amendment to protect small-scale producers from unnecessary, burdensome rules.
Food Safety Modernization Act
Signed a joint letter to U.S. Senators re: the Food Safety Modernization Act, urging amendments to improve food safety without handicapping small-scale food producers.
Use of sodium lactate in organic products
Letter asking the National Organic Program to revisit use of sodium lactate in organic products.
Proposed revisions to Food Safety Modernization Act
Signed onto a letter suggesting revisions to the Food Safety Modernization Act to prevent unnecessary and unintended negative impacts on family farms, organic farms, value-added agricultural development, conservation and the [...]
FDA approves irradiation for spinach and lettuce
Letter to FDA opposing the decision to approve irradiation for fresh spinach and lettuce.
Restore USDA pesticide data collection
Letter asking the USDA to restore funding for the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) annual data collection of agricultural chemical use.
Phase out toxic fumigants
Letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, urging it not to re-register toxic fumigant pesticides posing serious health risks to farmworkers.
Assess farmworkers’ pesticide exposure
Sign on to letter urging Washington's Governor, state representatives and senators to monitor air quality where agricultural pesticides are used and to encourage our agricultural land grant, WSU, to support [...]
Impact of pesticides on salmonids
To WSDA, Endangered Species Program, re: Process for Evaluating Pesticides in Washington State Surface Waters for Potential Impacts to Salmonids.
Oppose irradiated meat in school lunches
To USDA considering irradiated meat for the National School Lunch program.
Support WSU organic research and teaching
To Rep. Brian Baird, Re: WSU's Organic Cropping Research and Education for the Northwest program.
Evaluating impact of pesticides on salmonids
To WA State Dept. of Agriculture, Bridget Moran; re: WA State Pesticides/ESA Task Force's Draft Process for Evaluating Pesticides in Washington State Surface Waters for Potential Impacts to Salmonids.
Fertilizer may contain “recycled” hazardous waste
urges EPA to strengthen a proposal re: "recycled" hazardous wastes in fertilizer.
News coverage of toxic chemicals in fertilizer
Thank you letter to Seattle Times, for covering story about PBTs being used in agricultural fertilizers.