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Monday, November 12, 2012  Food labels multiply, confuse consumers, claiming to certify array of sustainable practices

Saturday, May 12, 2012  The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now providing in-store nutrition information for food safety and inspection on ground meat and poultry and for the forty most popular cuts of meat and poultry.

Friday, May 11, 2012  Thousands of people made their way through booth after booth at the Amarillo Civic Center Thursday for the Business Connection 2012.

Friday, March 02, 2012  A new law passed by the USDA requires nutritional labels to be put on all ground beef and ground poultry products.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011  An Oklahoma City company is recalling 875 pounds of turkey filets that are mislabeled as center cut steaks.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011  FDA releases new graphic cigarette warning labels in campaign to curb tobacco use

Friday, March 18, 2011  A new bipartisan bill called the, Part D Off-Label Prescription Parity Act, was recently introduced and it's purpose is to help some Medicare patients.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010  Meat labels to include the number of calories and other nutritional information starting in 2012 so that consumers can make healthier decisions about what they eat.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010  Local reaction to the proposed new cigarette labeling program by the FDA

Wednesday, November 10, 2010  Feds unveil graphic cigarette warning labels as part of campaign to get smokers to quit

Wednesday, November 10, 2010  The federal government hopes new larger, graphic warning labels for cigarettes that include images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs and teeth will help snuff out tobacco use.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has been tagged with the dubious award of "porker of the month" by a government spending watchdog group.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009  Republican Gingrich says he shouldn't have called Sotomayor 'racist,' retracts allegation