Coalition Supporting COOL Change Sends Letter to Congress
Last week a U.S. District Court of Appeals refused to rehear the country-of-origin (COOL) labeling dispute between the United States and the World Trade Organization, effectively making COOL the law of...
View ArticleU.S. Appeals WTO COOL Ruling
The United States has appealed the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on country of origin labeling (COOL) about labeling meat products that are imported. COOL has been in the news for years ever...
View ArticleCoalition Urges Senators to Reject Changes to COOL
A coalition of food safety and consumer advocates has written a letter to the Senate, urging legislators to “reject any effort to repeat, rescind or weaken country of origin labeling (COOL) in any...
View ArticleStudy Finds COOL Labels Haven’t Affected Livestock Exports
Country of origin labeling (COOL) has been a hot topic in the news for months. The United States wants to label meat products with information about where the animals and processed meat come from, but...
View ArticleUSDA Says COOL Doesn’t Benefit Consumers
Country-of-origin labeling (COOL) doesn’t provide benefits to consumers, according to the USDA’s chief economist. A report from the USDA was sent to Congress last Friday, May 1, 2015. The report was...
View ArticleWTO Rules Against U.S. on COOL. Again.
The World Trade Organization has ruled against the United States appeal on an October 2014 ruling delcaring country-of-origin labeling (COOL) in violation of international trade law. U.S. lawmakers...
View ArticleCFA Statement on House COOL Vote
Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America released a statement about the house vote on country of origin labeling (COOL). Last week, the House voted to...
View ArticleSenators Introduce COOL Labeling Legislation
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Hoeven (R-ND) have introduced new bipartisan legislation to address country-of-origin labeling (COOL) following the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling...
View ArticleCOOL Damages Much Lower Than First Thought
The legal wrangling over country of origin labeling (COOL) took a new turn this week, when the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) filed a brief in the World Trade Organization dispute over the issue. The...
View ArticleUSDA Ends Country-of-Origin Labeling Enforcement
USDA is no longer going to enforce Country of Origin Labeling requirements (COOL) for beef and pork products because the law was repeated by Congress in the Omnibus Bill. Tom Vilsack, Agriculture...
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