New York City plans a bill banning toy giveaways with children's fast-food meals, after San Francisco barred toys with meals failing nutrition standards. The piece tallies McDonald's Mighty Kids' Meal at 840 calories, 37 grams of fat and 1,460 milligrams of sodium.
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Food law, regulation, government advisories and the legal fights over what reaches your plate.
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FDAImports.com Persuades Government to Remove Client from FDA Import Alert 72-03
FDAImports.com announced that on March 25, 2011 the FDA removed a client from Import Alert 72-03, which holds rawhide pet chews for automatic detention over suspected Salmonella and lists more than 60 firms worldwide.
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Farmers and Seed Producers Launch Preemptive Strike against Monsanto (PR)
The Public Patent Foundation sued Monsanto in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses and organic groups, seeking to bar the company from suing them for patent infringement should their crops ever be contaminated by its genetically modified seed.
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Food additives and hyper kids: What's the link?
An FDA advisory committee meets to weigh new evidence on food dyes and hyperactivity in children and could call for more studies or label changes. No conclusive link has been established in the general population.
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USDA Continues Bush-era Policy of Allowing Unapproved Synthetic Additives (PR)
The Cornucopia Institute condemned the USDA for saying it will not enforce against DHA and ARA additives in foods labelled organic. A March 16 compliance letter conceded the algae- and fungus-derived additives had been allowed through an “incorrect” reading of the standards.
Advisories
FDA: Raw Milk May Pose Health Risk
FDA and CDC recommend pasteurization for all milk consumed in the United States, since heating kills salmonella, E. coli and listeria while altering only a few vitamins insignificantly. FDA rejects the claim that raw milk and its cheeses and yogurts are more nutritious.
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Alfalfa Plan B
Angry at the USDA's approval of GM alfalfa, sugar beets and ethanol corn, the writer argues the scale of the backlash is itself a win and proposes Plan B: use collective buying power to press food companies directly rather than fight more court battles.
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Think outside the box: How advertising affects kids choices
In a study of 80 children averaging about 5 years old, those shown a cereal box with a popular media character rated the taste higher than those shown a plain box, and those told the cereal was 'Healthy Bits' rated it higher than those told 'Sugar Bits.'
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Monsanto's "Unlikely" New Business Partner -- A Name You Know Well...
Wikileaks cables document the US State Department promoting Monsanto's interests abroad as European movements pressed for a moratorium on GM seeds. The piece adds that former Monsanto executives lead the Gates-backed AGRA, which bought $500,000 in Monsanto stock.
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If You Eat Organic Food, Have You Just Been Betrayed?
The Organic Consumers Association accuses Whole Foods, Organic Valley and Stonyfield Farm of conceding 'coexistence' with genetically modified crops and green-lighting USDA's conditional deregulation of Monsanto's GE alfalfa. The companies later issued strong statements against the approval.
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Swallow Fluoride at Your Own Peril - Study Shows Risks without Benefits (PR)
Among low-income Mexican children, 78 percent of 4- to 5-year-olds and 73 percent of 11- to 12-year-olds had cavities and 60 percent of the older children had dental fluorosis, despite urinary fluoride within the optimal intake range. Fluorosis tracked with toothpaste amount, age and brushing.
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URGENT: Arkansas Senate Voting on Mandatory Fluoridation Bill
Arkansas lawmakers introduced SB359, which would require public water systems serving 5,000 or more residents to fluoridate, with a full Senate vote set for Thursday. The alert objects that no local approval is required while local taxpayers fund the cost, and asks readers to e-mail senators.
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Peace Cereal Illegally Misleading Consumers? (PR)
The Cornucopia Institute filed an FTC complaint alleging Hearthside Food Solutions misleads buyers by telling them natural foods contain no pesticides. Peace Cereal has used conventional ingredients since 2008, and unlike organic, the term natural carries no federal standard.
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Cancer causing chemicals in cola should be banned says CSPI
CSPI has asked the FDA to ban the two ammonia-made types of caramel coloring used in colas and other foods, saying they contain 2- and 4-methylimidazole, which caused cancers in government rodent studies. It also wants the label 'caramel coloring' changed as misleading.
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Taste trumps calorie labels for teens who eat fast food
Researchers examined receipts and surveys from 349 children and teens at fast-food outlets in New York City and Newark and found no significant change in calories purchased after calorie labeling. Fifty-seven percent of teens noticed the labels; 9 percent used them when ordering.
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Newsletter from FAN: Ralph Nader on why fluoridation is promoted & the UK decision
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter announcing a Ralph Nader interview on why fluoridation is still promoted, reporting more than 14,000 emails sent to HHS opposing its 0.7 ppm proposal, and recounting the background to a UK court decision on fluoridating parts of Hampshire.
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Tell your senators to support S. 79!
An EWG Action Fund appeal asking readers to email their senators in support of S. 79, a Boxer-Feinstein bill that would require the EPA to set a safe legal limit on chromium-6 in drinking water within a year, after EWG found the contaminant in 31 of 35 cities tested.
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Exciting news on fluoridation battles
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin urges readers to comment on the HHS proposal of 0.7 ppm fluoride before February 14, arguing the level is still too high, and lists early-2011 developments including Calgary's 10-3 council vote and Yellow Springs, Ohio's 3-1 vote to end fluoridation.
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