Politics
Institute of Medicine cautioned on dangers of population-wide salt reduction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Morton SatinMarch 31, 2009
Pork Industry on Defensive After HBO Movie. Again
The pork industry was still reeling from grisly 2008 images of the MowMar sow farm in Bayard, IA when HBO aired Death on a Factory ...
Action Alert: Critical Pending Food Safety Legislation
Action Alert Critical Pending Food Safety Legislation: Supporting Viable Federal Oversight over Corporate AgribusinessWe Must Tell Congress to also Protect High Quality Organic and Local Food 1. ...
FDA Can’t Protect Americans from Dangerous Dietary Supplements, GAO Says
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, March 2, 2009 Contact: Jeff Cronin, 202-777-8370, or Stacey Greene, 202-777-8316 FDA Can’t ...
AHA responds to Israel diet/weight loss study
Saturday July 19, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- In response to a widely reported Israeli study of three common diets and their effects on weight loss, the ...
Warning Labels for Coloured Foods: Campaigners call for stronger action
Press release from The Food Commission's Action on Additives Campaign No Embargo - for immediate release. 7th July 2008This afternoon's plenary session at the European Parliament ...
Emergency Regs Needed for Tracking Produce, Food Groups Say
For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 3, 2008Contact: Jeff Cronin, 202-777-8370, or Stacey Greene, 202-777-8316 Emergency Regs Needed for Tracking Produce, Food Groups SayTraceability Would ...
Organic Valley—A Crisis in Confidence?
The opinion piece below outlines two factual inaccuracies in the story that we released last week:Bad News: We had estimated the Natural Prairie dairy, in ...
CU concerned about USDA's meat labeling efforts
We are writing to you to express our deep concern about a variety of meat marketing labeling efforts being undertaken at USDA. Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, has been rating, reporting and informing consumers about product claims for years....
U.S. talks with South Korea about beef ban
Saturday June 14, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- Reuters reported on June 13 that the U.S. would meet Seoul's top trade official on Friday amid massive protests in South Korea against U.S. beef imports to ease the trade tension between the two countries....



