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Politics
Salt Institute cites new research in call to abandon government guidelines on salt consumption (Press Release)
The Salt Institute asked the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee to drop numeric sodium targets, arguing that decades of unchanged salt intake reflect a physiological salt appetite rather than poor consumer education, and urging a return to advising moderation.
Law & Regulations
FDA concerned about Smart Choices*
The FDA wrote to food makers warning that front-of-package symbols such as Smart Choices can lead shoppers to decide without reading the rest of the nutrition label. CSPI's Michael Jacobson called the competing private systems confusing, citing a sweetened Kraft bagel product that carries the logo.
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Agribusiness Tries to Block Michael Pollan Speeches
The Los Angeles Times criticized Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for downgrading a Michael Pollan lecture after pressure from a donor who chairs Harris Ranch Beef. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, by contrast, gave In Defense of Food to all incoming freshmen.
Law & Regulations
Food Safety Enhancement Act - Update
HR 2749 has passed the House and a similar Senate bill, S 510, is pending. Both would require all-up, all-down traceability, mandatory recalls and electronic records. The piece contends only ScoringAg offers item-level traceback, and compares the bills with the 2002 Bioterrorism Act.
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Study challenges public policy-dictated sodium intake goal (Press release)
A Salt Institute release on a Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology analysis of 19,151 subjects across 33 countries, which found habitual sodium intake runs 2,800 to 4,600 mg a day. The authors argue physiology, not public policy, sets that range.
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Why are Monsanto Insiders Now Appointed to Protect Your Food Safety?
Dr. Mercola writes from Washington about US farm policy and health care, citing a GAO finding that millionaire farmers collected $49 million in crop subsidies from 2003 to 2006 and a 2008 report that 90 percent of Americans want the medical system rebuilt or fundamentally changed.
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Trust for America's Health joins food-safety campaign
Trust for America's Health called the FDA's century-old food safety system antiquated and joined calls to overhaul standards, inspections, outbreak detection and recalls. A CSPI report the day before named leafy greens, eggs and tuna the riskiest foods for foodborne illness.
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CDC Report: Schools Offering Healthier Options in Vending Machines
A CDC report found that across the 34 states studied, 63 percent of secondary schools no longer sell soda or fruit drinks that are not 100 percent juice, part of a broader push against childhood obesity that Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton took up in 2005.
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Calorie Postings Don’t Guarantee Healthier Choices
Fourteen months after New York City required calorie counts on fast food menu boards, NYU and Yale researchers checked receipts at McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and KFC. Although 28 percent who noticed the labels said they ordered better, calories bought barely changed.
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Most diets not meeting guidelines: CDC
A CDC state indicator report found just 13% of children eat three or more servings of vegetables a day and 32% eat two or more servings of fruit; adults did somewhat better at 33% and 27%. Vermont's kids ranked highest, Arkansas's lowest.
Advisories
FDA 101: Product Recalls (video)
A short note pointing to an FDA Consumer Update video in which Recall Operations Team Leader Armando Zamora explains how the agency manages recalls of defective or potentially harmful regulated products.
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National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Could Harm Local, Family-scale and Organic Growers (PR)
USDA hearings open on a marketing agreement that would let leafy green handlers put a USDA-backed food safety seal on lettuce, spinach and cabbage while barring most organic and local farmers who sell direct. Cornucopia's Will Fantle says it ignores manure from confined animal feeding operations.
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Is the FDA Poised to Ban a Century-Old Natural Remedy?
Major Pharmaceuticals says the FDA told it to stop making its entire line of natural desiccated thyroid drugs and will require manufacturers to file new drug applications. With Biotech, Time Cap Labs and Major out, only RLC and Forest remain, and their products are short or unavailable.
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Soda Talks Becoming a Carbonated Controversy
A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found California adults who drank a soda or more a day were 27% more likely to be overweight, and a New England Journal of Medicine paper called for a tax on sugary drinks. The American Beverage Council is fighting back.
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Doctors and Patients Sue White House Over Free Speech Violations
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education sued the White House over its call for the public to report “fishy” health-reform comments to flag@whitehouse.gov, saying it unlawfully collected information on political speech.
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Nutrition Notes:School Fundraisers: Supporting or Undermining Health Messages?
Karen Collins of the American Institute for Cancer Research notes that candy and high-fat baked goods fill fundraisers at 50 percent of elementary and 67 percent of high schools, per CDC data, and weighs that against IOM and AICR calls for schools to limit unhealthy food.
Legal Actions
Dietary supplements help defeat leukemia, one patient says
An FTC administrative law judge acknowledged that Daniel Chapter One is a ministry but ruled the agency still has jurisdiction over it. The rest is Tracey Kulikowski's first-person account of the 1996 illness and abnormal blood work that sent her to an oncologist.
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