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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
  6 days ago

• FDA plans to regulate nutrition labels

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 477
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• CSPI: Food Safety Fix Would Save 325,000 Unnecessary Hospitalizations Yearly

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  Senate HELP Committee Weighing FDA Reform Legislation CSPI Urges Quick Action, With More Frequent Inspections & Testing WASHINGTON—Yes, the United States Senate is focused on health care reform.  But if legislators want to save 5,000 lives and prevent 325,000 unnecessary and expensive hospitalizations ...
  2 weeks ago

• Family Doctor Group Squanders Credibility by Taking Tainted Coke Cash

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  Coke "Philanthropy" Buys Friends, Silences Critics, and Advances Anti-Health Extremism, According to CSPI WASHINGTON—The American Academy of Family Physicians, which claims its mission is “to improve the health of patients, families and communities,” is coming under fire for a controversial new partnership ...
  3 weeks ago

• Krafts Strawberry Bagel-ful Comes With Red Dye 40--A Smart Choice?

  
  BASIL & SPICE--NUTRITION! — Authority: 121
  FDA To Scrutinize “Smart Choices” & Other Front-of-Label Nutrition Symbols Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson Simplified nutrition information on the fronts of food packages could be very helpful in enabling consumers to choose healthier packaged foods and have healthier diets. ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSPI: 10-25 Needless Deaths Yearly Now Prevented

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 135
  FDA Acts to Protect Consumers from Vibrio in Oysters Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal For 15 years, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has been urging the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from Vibrio vulnificus—the deadly bacteria found in almost ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthy foods that can make you sick and how your dinner partner affects your diet

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 477
  Even apples can occasionally have worms . . . and apples didn’t even make the list The news from the Center for Science in the Public Interest probably had them dancing jigs at PepsiCo and McDonald’s and Frito-Lay headquarters, even as it complicated things annoyingly for advocates of healthy eating. The news ...
  4 weeks ago

• CSPI ranks riskiest foods

  
  CalorieLab Diet News — Authority: 477
  The Center for Science in the Public Interest has crunched the numbers on food-borne illness outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other sources to determine the most potentially dangerous foods on the market (of those regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which includes all ...
  4 weeks ago

• Could the Healthiest Food Also be the Deadliest?

  
  Fooducate — Authority: 529
  The consumer watchdog group CSPI published [PDF] a provocative list of 10 healthy foods that have been involved in large scale contamination in the past few years: LEAFY GREENS: 363 outbreaks involving 13,568 reported cases of illness EGGS: 352 outbreaks , 11,163 illness TUNA: 268 outbreaks , 2341 illness ...
  4 weeks ago

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