At the time scientists inside and outside the EPA unanimously agreed that the test posed negligible risk. (I wrote the analysis submitted by the Food and Drug Administration.) No new genetic material had been added--only a single gene whose function was well known had been removed--and the organism was obviously harmless.

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In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.

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On Tuesday, I wrote about an analysis of how often the Food and Drug Administration follows the advice of its expert advisory panels on whether or not to approve a new drug.

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For a country whose population is still overwhelmingly rural, and which throughout its history has experienced recurrent food shortages, such an omission indicates a superficial analysis of Indonesia's economy.

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At this station, reps used an Android app paired with a smartphone camera to photograph plastic food samples, then upload them to a server for analysis.

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This analysis says that it's not well established that food allergies are on the rise, although a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report said that in the last decade, the number people with diagnosed food allergies had risen by 18 percent.

CNN: Food allergy diagnosis 'an inexact science'

The fundamental flaws in John Tudor and Sons' hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) plan, which delivers food safety, were also missed, he said.

BBC: Safety call after E.coli inquiry

The company also said it had shared this data with European regulatory authorities and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and that the information had been included in its regulatory analysis.

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In a letter sent to the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Wolfe outlined a statistical analysis he had done of a 1999 Pfizer-funded test of Celebrex as a preventative for Alzheimer's disease that had just been made available on an industry Web site of clinical trial results.

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