Last year, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Community Health and Research (UAMS/CHR) and the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AHRA) partnered to learn directly from program participants how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can better support healthy eating for Arkansans who face barriers to accessing nutritious foods.
March has been a good month for the healthy kids' meal movement! Both Montgomery County, Maryland and the city of St. Louis, Missouri passed bills improving the health of restaurant kids’ meal options.
Last February, CSPI celebrated our 50th anniversary. This year, we're celebrating the launch of a brand new website—one that combines all our existing content with a new digital version of Nutrition Action.
After writing about the new US requirement to disclose bioengineered foods and ingredients, I spent some time at my local grocery stores checking out how different manufacturers are making their disclosures. Armed with my cell phone (for the digital disclosures), I visited my local Giant (owned by Ahold) and Wegmans stores.
Here in Washington, we can’t agree on much – apparently not even whether it’s in the nation’s interest to investigate the circumstances around a deadly siege of the Capitol. But there does appear to be bipartisan agreement on the need for a commission to conduct a post-mortem of our pandemic response.
Starting January 1, 2022, USDA regulations specify how foods sold in the United States that are bioengineered or contain bioengineered ingredients must disclose that information to consumers.
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