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What Does “Healthy” Mean? Give the FDA Your Two Cents

Sarah Everhart

Nov 2, 2016
2 min

What Does “Healthy” Mean? Give the FDA Your Two Cents

By Sarah Everhart What does “healthy” mean? This is not an easy question to answer and a subject that my four year old son and I often debate. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently started a public process to redefine what the label of healthy means to consumers. According to the FDA, redefining healthy is part of an overall plan to provide consumers with information and tools to easily and quickly make food choices consistent with public health recommendation

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Jan 22, 2016
4 min

News Roundup: January 22nd Edition

By Mayhah Suri President Vetoes Anti-WOTUS Measure On January 19th, President Obama delivered an expected veto of a congressional resolution that would kill the administration’s “waters of the United States” rule redefining the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act. “Because this resolution seeks to block the progress represented by this rule and deny businesses and communities the regulatory certainty and clarity needed to invest in projects that rely on clean water, I cannot

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Healthy Living: Do Right-to-Farm Laws Take into Account Public Health?

Paul Goeringer

Nov 21, 2014
3 min

Healthy Living: Do Right-to-Farm Laws Take into Account Public Health?

This post shall not construe legal or political advice and should be only utilized for educational benefits. We pick back up with our right-to-farm (RTF) series, today looking at whether RTF laws protect public health. Remember, if you care to read any earlier posts with Ashley Newhall covering life before RTF laws existed, Mae Johnson walking you through an ag mediation involving the RTF law, or my comparing Maryland’s law with other states’ laws, they are available at: htt

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