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by Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia christinel@newsreview.com
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD I read in the Feb. 18 issue of the Food Poisoning
LEARN HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN FOOD Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 9, the date of the free Seed Starting workshop out at the GRUB Cooperative (1525 Dayton Road). Taught by experienced nurserywoman Sherri Scott, who heads up the GRUB Grown Nursery, the workshop will focus on learning how to “start” seeds at home. “We’ll be covering the basics, starting with how to read a seed packet, and discuss different techniques to achieve optimum temperature, moisture and light needs,” writes Scott on the website of Cultivating Community NV, which is sponsoring the event. “We’ll talk about timing and spacing issues I’ve learned in my nursery business, as Learn to grow your own veggie starts! well as information I have gleaned from others. Sources for seed will be covered and each participant will plant their own mixed-variety six-pack to take home.” The workshop runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Call Jonah at 588-0585 or go to www.cultivatingcommunitynv.org for more information and to register for the workshop.
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The Water Walk is educational, fun and inspirational for all ages. Bring your own bucket that can be carried on a 2K or 5K walk (first 200 registered will receive a free bucket). There will be educational stations about the great need for clean water globally and water conservation. We will be filling our water buckets at the midpoint and carrying filled buckets to complete the course.
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Bulletin that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended by 60 days—until April 26—the public-comment period regarding the issue of government approval of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. As I wrote in this column on Feb. 7, after releasing its environmental assessment on GE salmon, the FDA had previously invited public comments through Feb. 25. “Almost 30,000 comments were submitted to the Federal Register since it was posted in December 2012,” writes Food Poisoning Bulletin writer Linda Larsen. Larsen reminds us that “the modified fish will grow twice as quickly as naturally occurring salmon” and would be “the first transgenic animal to be approved by the government and introduced into the environment and the food chain.” Potential health risks from eating the “frankenfish” include “potential toxicity, allergenic effects, and diseases,” according to the Center for Food Safety (go to www.ge-fish.org/about-ge-fish to read more about the threats to the environment and human health posed by GE fish). U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) praised the FDA’s decision to extend the comment period in Alaska senator Lisa a Feb. 13 press release, referring to the agency’s Murkowski applauds the original “flawed decision to move forward in the FDA’s decision to extend the approval process despite so many unanswered comment period on GE questions. … salmon to April 26. “I am proud that my Coastal Coalition in the Senate and those fighting along with us—like the Alaskans in Sitka last weekend—have raised our voices and outrage to a level where the FDA relented and is giving us more time to further lay out the case against GE salmon,” said Murkowski. “AquaBounty Technologies, the company that is introducing the genetically modified fish, will have to wait longer for government approval of its product,” Larsen said. Gee, maybe if the FDA gets 30,000 more comments, the approval process will get stopped in its tracks. Let’s hope so. Submit comments electronically to www.regulations.gov or via mail to the Division of Dockets Management (HFA–305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Go to www.tiny url.com/salmonchat for more detailed information on comment submission.
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