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Article published in “NUTRITION ACTION: Health Newsletter” – Signed, Certified…& Organic -1992
November 1992, by Roger Blobaum Q: Is organic food completely free of pesticides? A: Not necessarily. It sometimes contains trace amounts of synthetic chemicals. Q: How can that happen? A: There are lots of ways. Pesticides can be carried to organic fields by irrigation water, rain, wind-blown dust, fog, and drift from spray that has…
Read MorePresentation on Food Safety as the National Director of Americans for Safe Food 1990s
“Representatives of consumer organizations have just as much right to influence policy as agricultural scientists. The policymaking process, in fact, is enriched by our involvement.” –Excerpt R. Blobaum
Read MoreRemarks on the Organic Food Production Act at the Eco-Farm Conference 1992
Remarks by Roger Blobaum Eco-Farm Conference, Asilomar, California January 24, 1992 It feels great to get away from Washington, where nobody seems to be having any fun. Everybody is blaming everybody else for the deficit and the recession and the White House political staff has finally grounded the President and confiscated his passport. This follows…
Read MoreFirst Nominations Submitted For the National Organic Standards Board 1990
DECEMBER 31, 1990 From the Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association: ChristineJohnson:Own/Operate an Organic Farm Chesapeake Center Farm, Marion Station, MD Walter Ehrhardt Own/Operate an Organic Farm Ehrhardt Organic Farm, Knoxville, MD Roger Blobaum: Public Interest CSPI, Washington, DC Michael Heller: Environmental Protection & Resource Conservation Claggett Farm (Chesapeake Bay Foundation) From the Mississippi Organic…
Read MorePresentation on Food Safety to the Joint Meeting of Northeast Region Extension/Research Directors 1990
REMARKS by Roger Blobaum, Joint Meeting of Northeast Region Extension/Research Directors, Mystic, Connecticut, July 10, 1990 I appreciate the opportunity to participate in this food safety forum. I like to use occasions like this to remind farmers and other agricultural professionals that the millions of consumers who express food safety concerns are their customers.
Read MoreOrganic Food Production Act: Statement to the joint hearing of the Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, & Nutrition Subcommittee and the Department Operations, Research, & Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee House Committee on Agriculture 1990
Statement by Roger Blobaum, Center for Science in the Public Interest Presented at joint hearing of the Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, & Nutrition Subcommittee and the Department Operations, Research, & Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee House Committee on Agriculture Washington, DC June 19, 1990 Mr. Chairman, I am Roger Blobaum, director of the Americans for Safe Food…
Read MoreTestimony in support of Delegate Hattery’s Bill to establish a Maryland state organic certification and labeling program given to the Environment Matters Committee Maryland House of Delegates 1990
Testimony of Roger Blobaum, Center for Science in the Public Interest Environment Matters Committee Maryland House of Delegates March 6, 1990 My name is Roger Blobaum and I direct a food and agriculture project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in Washington. CSPI is a nonprofit public interest organization that has…
Read MorePresentation on the Food Safety Panel to the Western Association of State Departments of Agriculture | 1989
Roger Blobaum speaking on the Food Safety Panel, Western Association of State Departments of Agriculture, Seattle, Washington, August 14, 1989 We were pleased to accept your invitation to participate in this food safety panel and want to thank you for giving it a prominent place on your program. Consumer pressure, as you know, is pushing…
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