CSPI worked with Mondelēz Global LLC, the owner of the brands Ritz and Premium, to provide additional information disclosing the percentage of whole grain on the label for its Ritz “Baked With Whole Wheat” Crackers, Ritz “Baked with Whole Wheat” Fresh Stacks Crackers, and Premium “With Whole Grain” Saltine Crackers.
The bill comes with provisions to help ensure that infant formula is free from contamination, and that FDA has adequate warning of problems that could lead to shortages of formula and other specialized medical foods.
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has been elected to serve as chair of the board of directors of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Nutter succeeds nonprofit development consultant and former CSPI Director of Development Robin Caiola, who has served on the board for 12 years, including six years as vice chair and nearly two years as chair.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create Salmonella performance standards for pork processors.These standards would be the first limiting pathogens in pork since the USDA stopped testing under earlier standards in 2011.
While articles that present misinformation are uncommon, they have the capacity to reach large numbers of readers and affect the vaccine conversation, according to the study.
Anyone who wants to keep Salmonella or E. coli off their dinner plates should be thrilled that today the Biden administration pounded the final nail in the coffin of the Trump-era scheme to “sunset” some 18,000 consumer protections.
Without considerable improvements, legislation advanced in draft form will not adequately protect consumers because inaccurate test kits may either fail to diagnose a dangerous disease or generate a false-positive test result resulting in unnecessary treatment.
Among other reforms, Senator Murray's bill requires companies to publicly list their supplements in an FDA database for the first time, improves oversight of high-risk supplements, and expressly prohibits products fraudulently marketed as dietary supplements.
The Food and Drug Administration today denied petitions submitted by health and environmental advocates in 2016 to ban phthalates from food packaging and food production equipment.
