New Animal Study Indicates Cancer Risk February 8, 2016 The Center for Science in the Public Interest has downgraded its safety rating of sucralose, the artificial sweetener also known by the brand name Splenda, from “caution” to “avoid” in the group’s …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson February 5, 2016 Mars, Inc.’s bold action, announced today, that it will get synthetic food dyes out of its entire human food portfolio is a huge advance for parents and children and should serve as a …
Statement of CSPI Senior Food Safety Attorney David Plunkett February 4, 2016 The new performance standards announced today by the Food Safety and Inspection Service should reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination on ground chicken and turkey as …
February 3, 2016 Americans are getting increasingly used to seeing calorie counts on chain-restaurant menus as the industry prepares to comply with the menu-labeling provisions enacted into law in 2010. Calorie counts have otherwise been mandatory at …
January 19, 2016 The Food and Drug Administration is failing to protect children from the disturbing behavioral problems caused by artificial food dyes, even though evidence of those problems has continued to mount since 2011, when an FDA advisory panel …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Policy Director Margo G. Wootan January 19, 2016 A Senate bill that would reauthorize child nutrition programs is a sensible bipartisan compromise that preserves the important progress made in the last five years while giving a …
Company Relies on Discredited In-house Study Conducted by a Supplement Manufacturer February 1, 2016 CVS boasts that its Algal-900 DHA dietary supplement is “clinically shown” to improve memory, but relies solely on an industry-conducted study that the …
Statement of CSPI Senior Nutrition Policy Counsel Jessica Almy January 12, 2016 The last thing harried consumers need after making a series of shopping decisions is to be confronted with a wall of candy and soda at checkout. Giving customers choices they …
“Folding Carton Market in North America 2016-2020” new report to its research database. The report Spread across 75 pages with tables and figures. PUNE, INDIA, May 16, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The research analysts forecast the folding carton market in …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson February 24, 2016 New Yorkers won an important victory today for their health. Today, State Supreme Court Judge Eileen Rakower ruled that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene can enforce …
"Carbonating the World" Tracks Soda Industry in Big Tobacco's Global Footprints February 9, 2016 With soda sales in a tailspin in the United States, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are borrowing a page from the tobacco industry playbook and investing …
February 18, 2016 “SAFETY WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.” That’s the message some of the nation’s leading experts on nutrition and public health would like to see on soda and other sugary …
Statement of CSPI Senior Nutrition Policy Counsel Jessica Almy February 10, 2016 The American restaurant industry gets many things wrong, but it’s starting to get this one thing right: kids’ menus shouldn’t be used to push soda on kids. We congratulate …
February 12, 2016 The House of Representatives passed on a vote of 266-144 the “Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act,” which would allow restaurants and other food establishments to make up their own serving sizes, deny customers calorie information on …
Products To Reduce Chemical Consumption And Recognize Efficiencies HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA, May 16, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ -- HOUSTON - (May 16, 2016) -- ProSep, the industry-leading technology and service provider for integrated process solutions, announced …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson April 21, 2016 Boulder, Colorado, is the latest U.S. city looking to put the health of its citizens above the profits of Big Soda. Local community members and organizations announced today they will seek to …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman April 21, 2016 The Food and Drug Administration’s long-sought decision to allow manufacturers to begin adding safe amounts of folic acid to corn masa flour is an important nutritional advance for women …
April 20, 2016 The World Public Health Nutrition Association, World Obesity Federation, Consumers International, and health groups from around the globe are calling on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to adopt and enforce a policy of not marketing sugar drinks to …
Statement of CSPI Senior Scientist Lisa Lefferts April 13, 2016 The decision by the Food and Drug Administration that it will consider withdrawing its approval of the ubiquitous toxic chemicals known as ortho-phthalates from use in food packaging and …
CSPI Releases Analysis of Heartland Food Products' Defense of Sucralose April 11, 2016 In February, the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest downgraded its safety rating of the artificial sweetener sucralose, also known by the brand name …
