Global Regulation Tomorrow Plus: Mansion House and Leeds Reforms mini-series – The big picture

In the first episode of our new mini-series on the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech and Leeds Reforms, Jonathan Herbst, Hannah Meakin and Simon Lovegrove look at the big picture, including the key themes behind the government’s reforms and the latest on the Berne Financial Services Agreement.

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This Provision In the House Budget Bill Would (Further) Empower Trump’s Lawbreaking

At 6:56 a.m. on Thursday, a razor-thin majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a sweeping budget bill that would impose draconian cuts to critical public services, allocate billions of dollars to executing President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, and gift $ 1.5 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it will only need a simple majority to pass.

The most prominent victims of House Republicans’

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Red Cow and Hen House E. coli Outbreak linked to Wolverine Packing

And, undercooked burgers.

Minnesota health officials are urging people to contact their health care provider if they ate a hamburger, especially if undercooked, at a table-service restaurant since Oct. 31 and then developed diarrhea, particularly bloody diarrhea, in the following week.  

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has identified at least 10 cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection in people who had eaten burgers at multiple locations of Red Cow, a table-service restaurant chain with locations in Hennepin, Ramsey … Read the rest

Publisher’s Platform: House and Senate should act now on Boar’s Head plant

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The years of inspection reports (Here are the Inspection Reports in PDF.) leave little doubt that the Boar’s Head plant’s food safety plan must have been non-existent. It is hard to wrap your head around how food could be produced in these conditions by this company and under the gaze of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors.

It is time for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate committees use their authority … Read the rest