Scientists offer 18 recommendations as a platform to focus and stimulate efforts toward food safety improvements.

A panel of five members of the National Academy of Sciences formed by CAST examine the scientific merits of the Biotechnology Industry Organization response to the major conclusions reached by eleven professional scientific societies on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to regulate genes which make plants resistant to pests by means of genetic engineering under the same regulations developed for use of chemical pesticides applied to plants.

The scientific evidence does not support restrictions in the consumption of salted, smoked, or nitrite-preserved foods by the U.S. population.

  Foods derived from animals contribute significantly to total nutrients in the U.S. food supply. […]

Concern for the welfare of farm animals is mounting in the United States. Although many […]

  Approximately 262 million acres of public land in the western United States are grazed […]

  A broad spectrum of integrated manure management systems are available to collect, transfer, store, […]

Farmers irrigating in the western United States face a host of changing circumstances that will […]

Foodborne bacteria cause as many as 9,000 deaths in the United States annually; yet scientifically proven safe, low doses of pasteurizing radiation can kill over 99% of most foodborne bacteria. Radiation pasteurization safely controls foodborne pathogens on beef, pork, lamb, and seafood.

For more than a century, crop price instability has dogged U.S. farmers. And in the past 60 years–despite federal subsidy and acreage reduction programs meant to stabilize farm income–farm numbers, farm populations, and rural prosperity have declined ominously.