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By Sarah Sorscher
Last week, some of the biggest players in Big Food, including household names like Nestlé, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Hormel and PepsiCo, teamed up to launch a lobbying coalition to permanently undermine food safety in the United States.
The new coalition is purportedly seeking to
Continue Reading Introducing the SHAM GRAS Act, a bill to weaken food chemical safety
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The current Administration has talked a lot about “Making America Healthy Again” in the fight to reduce chronic disease. Now, the FDA has an opportunity to show that it’s serious about Americans’ health — by finalizing a rule that would require strong front-of-package nutrition labels across the
Continue Reading CSPI urges public to contact FDA about labels on the front of food packages
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By Sarah Sorscher
Correction: This column was originally published under another author’s byline. It was written by Sarah Sorscher of CSPI.
Deadly Listeria in shakes served at nursing homes. Disease-causing E. coli linked to onions served in McDonald’s. Salmonella in cucumbers landing 155 people in the hospital. These are just a few
Continue Reading RFK Jr.’s health cuts could undermine outbreak prevention, chemical safety
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has submitted comments to the FDA regarding the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s preliminary report on antimicrobial use monitoring.
This past spring, the Food and Drug Administration commissioned the Reagan-Udall Foundation to explore how the agency could collect antimicrobial usage data from farms to
Continue Reading CSPI offers suggestions for FDA on data collection regarding on-farm antimicrobial use
More money and reorganization are often offered as solutions when deficiencies turn up in government.
This time, food regulation by the Food and Drug Administration has come up short. In a lengthy report released on April 8, Politico depicted FDA’s food regulation and outbreak response as slow and inept.
On
Continue Reading Consumer groups, industry tell FDA Commissioner change is needed
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A year ago the Center for Science in the Public Interest urged the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from unprocessed poppy seeds contaminated with naturally occurring opiate residues. In a regulatory petition filed along with medical experts and six families injured by contaminated poppy
Continue Reading Consumer group wants to know what FDA is doing about poppy seed safety
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In recent days, the Food and Drug Administration released the 2020 Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food-Producing Animals, which showed sales levels close to those from recent years. These data have been compiled annually since 2011 as part of a regulatory
Continue Reading FDA report on antimicrobial sales for use in food animals lacking some specifics
During the past half century the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual reports show that salmonellosis has been the leading cause of foodborne death. Salmonellosis is caused by virulent serotypes of the bacterium Salmonella enterica. The sources include undercooked meat or poultry, cross contamination from raw meat or
Continue Reading The problem of salmonellosis and politics
Twenty-two months after a petition was filed requesting that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declare certain “outbreak” serotypes of Salmonella to be per se adulterants in meat and poultry, the government is still thinking about it.
Rachel Edelstein, Assistant Administrator for the FSIS Office of Policy and Program
Continue Reading FSIS calls Salmonella serotypes as adulterants a ‘new approach’
Those who work in the arena of public affairs risk more than paper cuts when they decide to work with their opponents. I know this from the years when I worked for developers in the Seattle area, and environmentalists and neighborhood activists were on the other side.
Some on
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: A coalition rising
