Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biolog
I worry a lot about the ability of the FDA to set limits on the excess marketing practices of food companies. The latest cause for worry is the seemingly trivial
I haven’t said anything about the E. coli 0104 crisis in Germany up to now because I’ve been waiting for the evidence. Without evidence, the source of the
I’ve been asked repeatedly this week to comment on the huge press outcry about a study that links diet sodas to an increased risk of stroke and heart disease.
I have now had time to look at the full report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines-all 95 pages of what they are calling “the policy document.”
Oh no! What happened
Editor’s note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here
I listened in on Monday’s White House conference call announcing that President Obama would sign the Food Safety Modernization Act.
Speakers said the new bill will give the FDA
Food companies insist that they can make health claims for their products, whether backed by science or not, because commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment,
I had a good laugh when Dick Jackson, who chairs the Environmental Health Sciences department at UCLA’s School of Public Health, forwarded this article: “McDonald’s and PepsiCo to
In an online press release last week, the Grocery Manufacturing Association (GMA) and Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced a new labeling initiative for their member companies:
America’s leading food
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its first Front-of-Package (FOP) labeling report Oct. 13. Phase I is a tough, detailed examination of about 20 of the existing FOP schemes along
I received a couple of requests to define “public health” last week from readers [of Food Politics] Anthro and MA. As MA puts it,
“Maybe…we need a definition of
Yesterday’s New York Times has an op-ed, “Crying over raw milk“, about the political fights over raw milk in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin legislature has introduced a bill allowing dairy
