Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a petition Wednesday asking that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban two types of carcinogenic chemicals
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles from CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
Two shoppers who say they weren’t alerted to recalls of food they purchased at Safeway have filed a lawsuit against the grocery chain.
Representing them in the long-threatened complaint,
A statistical study of federal and state food safety data confirms what most authorities have long believed–that some state health departments are dramatically better than others at detecting foodborne
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles from CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal on the implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
McDonald’s is standing its ground after being sued Wednesday in California for marketing its Happy Meals to children.
The plaintiff in the class action lawsuit is Monet Parham, mother
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sent a letter to Nestlé Monday, asking the Swiss-based food giant not to purchase Quorn, a line of frozen-meat substitutes shaped
Co-founder and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Michael F. Jacobson, received the 2010 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation Hero Award this week.
In an effort to ramp up the pressure on the Senate to move on the pending food safety bill, food safety advocates and foodborne illness victims yesterday unveiled a report
A judge ruled last week that the pending lawsuit against Coca Cola’s Vitamin Water will proceed. The judge denied Coca Cola’s attempts to dismiss the lawsuit on technical
These days it’s ordinary to cool off with a magenta popsicle or quench thirst with a neon green sports drink. Vibrantly colored foods have become the norm, but studies