Latest Fact-Checks In Food Safety

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Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 White House press briefing

The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

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January 30, 2025

Ashley Hinson
stated on March 6, 2022 a tweet

California has instituted a "bacon ban."

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March 11, 2022

Peter DeFazio
stated on February 12, 2015 an interview on MSNBC

"Monarch butterflies are becoming extinct" because of increased use of crops genetically modified to withstand pesticides.

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By Lauren Carroll • February 17, 2015

Jeff Wagner
stated on May 8, 2013 a radio show

"The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to" wash your hands "at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich."

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May 16, 2013

Facebook posts
stated on March 29, 2013 a Facebook post

A new law "requires the USDA to approve the harvest and sale of crops from genetically modified seed even if a court has ruled against the crop as being dangerous to public safety or the environment."

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By Molly Moorhead • April 5, 2013

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
stated on March 14, 2013 a letter

"[A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging."

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By Eric Stirgus • March 27, 2013

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 19, 2012 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate

"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2012

Lynn Westmoreland
stated on February 11, 2011

The federal government regulates the holes in Swiss cheese.

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By Eric Stirgus • February 21, 2011

Jamie Oliver
stated on August 29, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour."

McDonald's in England only sells organic milk and free-range eggs, which provides more nutritious offerings than in the U.S.

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August 31, 2010