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FDA's New Food Protection Plan

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“FDA is implementing a Food Protection Plan (the Plan) that addresses both food safety and food defense for domestic and imported products. The Plan is integrated with the Administration’s Import Safety Action Plan. The Food Protection Plan operates through a set of integrated strategies that:

  • Focus on risks over a product’s life cycle from production to consumption
  • Target resources to achieve maximum risk reduction
  • Address both unintentional and deliberate contamination
  • Use science and modern technology systems

Judge Orders Telecoms to Preserve Evidence in Government Surveillance Cases

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Press release: “A federal judge today ruled on a preservation motion filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ordering that telecommunications companies must preserve any evidence of collaborating with the government in illegal spying on ordinary Americans. In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ordered the telecommunications companies to halt any routine destruction… Continue Reading

CBO Monthly Budget Review and Cost Estimate for Food and Energy Security Act of 2007

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Monthly Budget Review, November 2007 Cost Estimate for Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 November 6, 2007: “The amendment would modify and extend the major farm income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, energy, specialty crops, and crop insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).… Continue Reading

OECD Launches Broadband Portal

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“The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range of indicators which reflect the status of individual broadband markets in the OECD. The OECD has indentified five main categories which are important for assessing broadband markets…Penetration (actual lines); Usage (household surveys); Coverage… Continue Reading

DHS Fact Sheet: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement

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Fact Sheet: “Secretary Chertoff highlighted the Department’s progress on immigration efforts. More than 76 miles of pedestrian fence have been completed on the Southwest border, and the number of Border Patrol agents is increasing: currently roughly 15,000, it is scheduled to be more than 18,300 by the end of next year. Over the past year,… Continue Reading

Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act Introduced Today

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Press release: “Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Rep. Tom Allen introduced the Non-Prescription Drug Modernization Act which would permit FDA to act quickly to protect consumers from unsafe or ineffective over-the-counter drugs. An FDA advisory panel recently recommended that over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications for children under the age… Continue Reading

Commentary on Digitization of the World's Libraries

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The New Yorker: Digitization and its discontents, by Anthony Grafton, November 5, 2007 “…the Internet will not bring us a universal library, much less an encyclopedic record of human experience. None of the firms now engaged in digitization projects claim that it will create anything of the kind. The hype and rhetoric make it hard… Continue Reading

Interior Department Releases Alternative Energy Environmental Impact Statement and Announces Offshore Alternative Energy Initiative

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Press release: “The Secretary of the Interior today released the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (FPEIS) for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Alternative Energy and Alternate Use (AEAU) Program and announced an interim policy for authorization of the installation of offshore data collection and technology testing facilities in federal waters.” OCS Alternative Energy and Alternate… Continue Reading

Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

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“The Internet is becoming increasingly embedded in everyday life. Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwide… Continue Reading