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Glickman, who served in the House for 18 years as a representative from Wichita, Kan., spoke about the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as well as the different ways in which the President's Cabinet and Congress approach issues...
Glickman also spoke on many of the major issues facing the USDA today...
...uses only USDA Choice meats, cooked medium well to 165 degrees Fahrenheit to prevent dangerous bacteria such as E. coli. The FDA recommends that ground beef reach an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit...
...begin with unchallenged fact, the Harvard source for grapes for the winter will be in Chile, whose grapes were ranked the 11th most contaminated produce item on American shelves by the Environmental Working Group, basing its statistics on USDA tests. With scant regulation, there is no reason to think Chilean grapes will not continue to have undetected problems, like the cyanide scare that caused a brief governmental ban on Chilean grapes in the late 1980s...
Some people worry, however, that pesticides used on grapes pose a health hazard. The Pesticide Data Program of the USDA, which tested 694 grape samples (both domestic and imported), found that 80 percent had one or more pesticides on them, said Kurt Davies, a pesticide policy analyst for the Environmental Working Group...