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• Nearly 80% Of Food Ads On Nickelodeon Are For Junk

  
  BASIL & SPICE--NUTRITION! — Authority: 125
  Self-Regulation Proving Insufficient to Protect Children, Says CSPI WASHINGTON—Nearly 80 percent of food ads on the popular children’s network Nickelodeon are for foods of poor nutritional quality, according to an analysis conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest .  That represents a ...
  3 days ago

• Movie theater popcorn gets two thumbs down from advocacy group

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Food , Consumer Ally Eating popcorn at the movies used to be fun. Now its scary, thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the advocacy group that also has given the beat-down to Chinese food, fast food and most other things Americans love to pig out on. The group performed lab ...
  1 week ago

• Popcorn – The Good, The Bad, and The VERY BAD

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 528
  Popcorn, the quintessential snack of the movies, is a long standing tradition. The Good : it’s a healthy, low calories snack – very filling due to its fiber content, and less than 100 calories per 3 cups of air popped popcorn. The Bad : Problems start when pop corn is bathed in oils and butters and serving ...
  1 week ago

• CSPI: Regal Theater Popcorn Has 1,200 Calories, 60g Saturated Fat!

  
  BASIL & SPICE--NUTRITION! — Authority: 125
    ‘Two Thumbs Down’ for Movie Theater Popcorn New Lab Tests of Movie Theater Popcorn Show It’s Still the Godzilla of Snacks   WASHINGTON—It’s hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie.  But according to new ...
  1 week ago

• Uh oh. Industry forces FDA to drop oyster safety plan

  
  Food Politics — Authority: 576
  On November 13, the FDA announced indefinite postponement of rules requiring raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico to undergo postharvest processing to destroy their content of Vibrio vulnificus, a particularly nasty “flesh-eating” bacterium.  According to accounts in the New York Times and in industry ...
  1 week ago

• Update: “Sodium lawsuit against Denny’s dismissed”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 613
  Nation’s Restaurant News (via Russell Jackson ): “A New Jersey Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Denny’s Corp. of perpetrating fraud by not disclosing the amount of sodium in its food. The lawsuit, the first sodium-related case against a restaurant company, was filed this summer by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• FDA Investigation of Safety & Legality of Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks Praised by CSPI

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  Statement of CSPI Alcohol Policy Director George A. Hacker   We strongly support the investigation announced today by the Food and Drug Administration into the safety and legality of caffeinated alcoholic “energy” drinks.   For many years, federal regulators have stood mutely by as these potentially ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gulf Coast Oyster Harvest Valued at $60 Million (2008)-FL Sen Fights FDA

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  WASHINGTON—The Center for Science in the Public Interest was joined today by victims, consumer advocacy, and public health organizations in urging Congress to support the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to protect consumers from contaminated oysters that each year cause scores of ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2008: 57% Corn Planted In U.S. Spliced With Bt, 1 Of 4 Farmers Not Compliant

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  Too Many Farmers Growing Genetically Engineered Corn Not Complying with Key Environmental Requirements CSPI Urges EPA Not to Re-Register Products Unless Compliance Improves WASHINGTON—One out of every four farmers who plants genetically engineered (GE) corn is failing to comply with at least one important ...
  3 weeks ago

• FDA plans to regulate nutrition labels

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 431
  The Food and Drug Administration is planning to propose new standards to regulate front of container nutrition information provided by food manufacturers such as the Smart Choices labels developed by the food industry that some critics say even help promote clearly unhealthy products such as Froot Loops . The ...
  4 weeks ago

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