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Undated: ... the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reneged on a proposed ban of the brain-damaging pesticide, chlorpyrifos. Obama’s EPA had proposed the ban in 2015, the result of a decade-long effort by public interest groups to protect American children from the neurotoxic insecticide.
https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/4901/trump-epa-approves-continued-use-of-notorious-brain-damaging-pesticide#showJoin

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September 15: Trump targets “the FDA Food Police,” calls for elimination of food-safety regulations in new tax plan ... Alarm: This is not a joke ... fact sheet released by the Trump campaign, the businessman turned White House aspirant plans to dramatically scale back government regulations, including food safety and environmental measures, in order to save almost $1 trillion over the next decade.
https://www.salon.com/2016/09/15/trump-targets-the-fda-food-police-calls-for-elimination-of-food-safety-regulations-in-new-tax-plan/

September 19:
Trump Sends Mixed Message on Food Safety Standards ... The Trump campaign pitched rolling back food safety regulations in a fact sheet, arguing they are burdensome to farmers and “overkill.” But the campaign later deleted the proposal from its website and offered no explanation.
https://www.insurancejournal.com/topics/trump-food-safety/

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May 24: Consumer Groups Slam Trumps Plan to Reduce FDA Food Safety Budget
http://beta.naturalproductsinsider.com/regulatory/consumer-groups-slam-trumps-plan-reduce-fda-food-safety-budget?utm_test=redirect&utm_referrer=https%3A//www.google.com/url%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D17%26ved%3D0ahUKEwjZwaKzg5rZAhURy1MKHRfSDi04ChAWCEowBg%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.naturalproductsinsider.com%252Fblogs%252Finsider-law%252F2017%252F05%252Fconsumer-groups-slam-trump-s-plan-to-reduce-fda-f.aspx%26usg%3DAOvVaw0yw5O3-RNipXOHbtYqm_H0

May 31: In his first remarks to FDA staff in mid-May, newly confirmed FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, promised ongoing support for the agency’s food safety programs.

But keeping that promise may prove challenging. The Trump Administration’s Fiscal 2018 budget request, submitted to Congress on May 23, 2017, just one week after Dr. Gottlieb’s pep talk, proposes to slash the agency’s budget by more than $870 million, or nearly one-third, from about $2.76 billion to $1.89 billion.
http://www.foodqualityandsafety.com/article/trump-budget-food-safety/

June 5: 12 Ways Trump Has Declared War on Food Safety
https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-war-on-food-2430477749.html

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July 1: The American Greed Report: Food safety measures face cuts in Trump budget
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/30/american-greed-report-food-safety-measures-face-cuts-in-trump-budget.html

August 28:
The FDA’s Consumer Protection Warnings Are Falling Under Trump ... The number of agency warning letters is at its lowest level since 2008.

From the toothpaste you use to the lipstick you apply, the medicines you take to the food you eat, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to stand between consumers and faulty products that could do them harm. It oversees $2.4 trillion of the U.S. economy—some
20 cents of every dollar Americans spend
.

But in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the FDA has shown signs it may be retreating from its mission.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-28/fda-warnings-meant-to-protect-consumers-fall-under-trump

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August 29: Center for Food Safety Sues Trump Administration Over GM Labeling ... legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods and food ingredients was signed into law on July 29, 2016. 
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/center-food-safety-sues-trump-administration-over-gm-labeling

September 17: Four Big Food Fights Under Trump
http://www.tomarketmagazine.com/stories/2017/9/23/four-big-food-fights-under-trump

October 2:
Critics pan USDA plan to move food safety work to trade office

A Trump administration plan to shift work on international food safety issues to a trade office under the supervision of a former animal-drug company executive is sparking an outcry from internal and external critics who say the move signals the U.S. is more interested in promoting exports than in science-based public health standards.

Current and former officials from both the Agriculture Department and the FDA have been raising alarm internally and publicly about the plan to take the office away from the USDA’s public health arm and give it to the agency’s newly created trade arm. At stake, they say, is the country’s status as a global leader on food safety and quality.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/food-safety-agriculture-usda-fda-243351

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October 13: 7 ways Trump’s NAFTA threatens our health, family farmers, animal welfare and the environment
https://foe.org/7-ways-trumps-nafta-threatens-health-family-farmers-animal-welfare-environment/

October 16: Another Obama Decision Reversed? Now It’s About Food Safety.

Citing President Donald Trump's calls for deregulation, Republican lawmakers and the chicken industry are aggressively lobbying to speed up poultry inspection lines — a change the Obama administration had rejected after warnings it would endanger workers and increase food contamination.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/another-obama-decision-reversed-now-it-s-about-food-safety-n810296

October 17: Chicken Lobby Urges Trump Admin to Undo Safety Measures for Poultry Workers ... Here's how speeding up inspection lines might compromise labor conditions—and the safety of your chicken.

It's all in the name of efficiency, or so the NCC claims. The push has summoned the ire of multiple animal rights groups along with worker safety organizations.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/7xk59z/chicken-lobby-urges-trump-admin-to-undo-safety-measures-for-poultry-workers

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November 2: Inside Trump’s Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.’s Scientists

The folks at the Department of Agriculture laid on a friendly welcome for the Trump transition team, but they soon discovered that most of his appointees were stunningly unqualified.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/usda-food-stamps-school-lunch-trump-administration

November 18: Food Industry Blindsided As Trump Administration Supports Obama-Era Menu Labeling Effort
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillempert/2017/11/08/trump-administration-supports-obama-era-menu-labeling-and-the-industry-is-blindsided/#27814c7f2bcb

December 4: The Trump Administration Won’t Let Scientists Set Food Standards

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... the Codex Alimentarius Commission, but it’s the reason there’s only six items food poisoning experts won’t eat. The committee of 180 countries sets international food safety standards; almost every nation’s food safety laws are built on their recommendations. Part of that is because most nations offer scientists who use the latest research to determine what’s safe to put in your mouth and what isn’t. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Trump administration wants to change this.
http://uproxx.com/news/trump-usda-fda/

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Undated: Trump's proposed budget could unravel food safety net for millions in Texas

Local advocates are speaking out for low income families after President Donald Trump unveiled his budget proposal, which includes cuts to programs that help with things like grocery and energy bills.

The SNAP program is a supplemental program, so when it's not enough for local families, the Central Texas Food Bank steps in to make sure everyone can put food on the table.

The food bank partners with the organization Feeding Texas, which has called President Trump's proposed $193 billion cut to nutrition programs, "reckless and cruel."
http://cbsaustin.com/news/local/trumps-proposed-budget-could-unravel-food-safety-net-for-millions-in-texas

January 4: Trump Administration Indefinitely Delays Key Food Safety Protections ...

All Americans, regardless of their political affiliation, want safe food.

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That’s why the Food Safety Modernization Act passed with broad bipartisan support.  Make no mistake: The Trump administration is today undermining that landmark legislation by indefinitely delaying enforcement of the rules that would put it into effect.  The announcement is a rotten anniversary present, given that FSMA was signed into law on this very day seven long years ago.

FSMA was intended to cover the entire food chain, from farm to fork, and the Trump administration’s new guidance would create a gap in that safety chain by exempting, at least for now, some of those who harvest, package, and hold food produced on farms.  In addition, the guidance would eliminate the written company-to-company food safety assurances required under the final FSMA rules
https://cspinet.org/news/trump-administration-indefinitely-delays-key-food-safety-protections-20180104

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January 6:
'Food Police' Thriving Under Alleged Deregulator Trump

When it comes to the FDA and USDA, where's the scaling back of rules?

http://reason.com/archives/2018/01/06/food-police-thriving-under-alleged-dereg

January 8: New Front to Open in Trump’s War on Healthy Food

President Trump is likely to launch new salvos in his full-scale war on healthy food today, when he addresses the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Since taking office, Trump has rolled back decades of food policy progress, including efforts to make food safer and healthier, feed hungry Americans, reduce farm pollution, and make food production more transparent.
https://www.ewg.org/agmag/2018/01/new-front-open-trump-s-war-healthy-food#.Wn40_d1MFkg

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January 15: Trump's Mar-a-Lago cited for 15 food safety violations: Report
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-mar-a-lago-cited-for-15-food-safety-violations-report/article/2645999

January 16: Changes to how pork slaughter plants could be regulated are going forward after a mere 21 years in the making. President Donald Trump’s Administration has approved a final rule that had its origin during President Bill Clinton’s Administration.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/tag/donald-trump/#.Wn4wBd1MFkg

January 17: Mar-a-Lago Racked Up 15 More Food-Safety Violations
http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/01/trumps-mar-a-lago-cited-for-another-15-food-safety-violations.html

January 19: Trump Releases Proposed Rule for Privatized Inspection Scheme in Hog Plants ... Today the Trump administration released a proposed rule to privatize food safety inspection in hog slaughter plants

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According to national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch, this plan would put worker safety, humane slaughter compliance and food safety performance at risk.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/trump-releases-proposed-rule-privatized-inspection-scheme-hog-plants

February 8: Currently, under the Affordable Care Act, food establishments have until May 7 to comply with requirements to add calorie information labels to the food items they serve and offer, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.

Those requirements apply to chain restaurants or food establishments that have 20 or more locations and vending machine operators who own or operate 20 or more machines.

On Tuesday, the House passed legislation that would amend exactly how those restaurants and retail food businesses are to provide the calorie count information to their customers.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/08/health/menu-calorie-count-law-bn/index.html

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March 24: Canada wants clearer warnings on junk food. The US is using NAFTA to stop them.

Canada is poised to be the first high-income country to put warning labels on foods high in salt, sugar, and fat.
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/24/17152144/canada-wants-clearer-warnings-on-junk-food-the-us-is-using-nafta-to-stop-them

June 22: Trump wants to reshape the US food safety system. The idea is great, and terrible.

The American food safety system is poised for a big shake-up. This week, president Donald Trump released a plan (pdf) that would bring the nation’s sprawling food safety forces under the watch of a single agency.

It would be a significant change to the US regulatory system, with merits and pitfalls. Right now, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is in charge of ensuring all meat, poultry, and catfish are safe to eat. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has designated the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to oversee just about everything else. Here’s a breakdown of what a massive consolidation might mean:
https://qz.com/1312336/trumps-proposal-to-take-food-safety-regulation-away-from-the-fda-is-both-a-great-idea-and-a-terrible-idea/

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