Do inexpensive plastic toys lure children–or their parents–into making unhealthy food choices? A leading consumer advocacy group believes they do and is threatening to sue fast food giant
Using her self-dubbed “big Sicilian mouth,” celebrity chef Rachael Ray asked Congress Tuesday to cough up more money for school lunches.
“How could you go to any state in the
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a Washington, DC non-profit focused on nutrition and food safety, told Safeway Tuesday it will sue the grocery chain unless it
After a series of USA Today exposes in 2009 found staggering gaps in school food safety, many in food policy circles thought food safety would be addressed in the Child
On Wednesday, the Center for Science in the Public Interest(CSPI) called on the states to improve outbreak reporting. “Better reporting of foodborne illness outbreaks could speed recalls and save
As the list of products recalled for containing Salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP)–a little-known, but widely-used flavoring ingredient–continues to grow, more politicians and public health experts are calling
Matt Cheung’s uninformed article (Banning Trans Fats–How Important Is It?, Jan. 16) has no place in Food Safety News, unless the latter now has a fiction section.
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State health departments conducted fewer complete foodborne illness investigations in 2007 than in any other year in the past decade, according to a recent study by the Center for Science
PART II: On the food safety policy outlook for 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expansion overseas, and the Reportable Food Registry’s potential: A conversation with
PART I: On the status of Senate food safety bill, the engagement between consumer and small/sustainable agriculture groups, and President Obama’s food safety education: A conversation with CSPI’
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n, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and the Food Animals Concern Trust (FACT), a Chicago-based animal welfare organization, presented a petition signed by 37,000 people to