Food news you may have missed: Sep 29, 2023

Infant formula, baby food could soon be safer

How to keep your kitchen safe

Your kitchen harbors more bacteria than any other room in your house. While the lion’s share are harmless, some can cause nasty (and even long-lasting) effects. Here’s how to keep your kitchen safe.

Red 3 is banned in cosmetics. Why does FDA allow it in food?

Congress is taking action to allow for better understanding of dangerous foodborne microbes on farms

Sesame allergy: Food manufacturing shortcut creates new risks

School food ingredient guide

This guide is a resource for school food leaders and manufacturers alike who are committed to improving the overall quality, nutritional value, and safety of food provided to all students in every school. It highlights unwanted ingredients to eliminate, and those to watch out for as new food products are developed and others are modified. This document is a science-based tool created primarily by school nutrition professionals, for school nutrition professionals, in partnership with CSPI.

Letter to Congress re: Regulatory pathway for hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD)

The Center for Science in the Public Interest submits this comment in response to the July 2023 Congressional Request for Information regarding the potential for a regulatory pathway for hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products.

Comment to USDA on Salmonella in non-ready-to-eat breaded, stuffed chicken products

The Center for Science in the Public Interest submitted these comments on behalf of itself and other food safety advocates in support of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's draft proposal to control Salmonella in non-ready-to-eat breaded, stuffed chicken products

Food safety advocates support USDA proposal to protect consumers from Salmonella in some processed chicken products

The Center for Science in the Public Interest and other food safety advocates are coming out in support of a proposal by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to protect consumers from Salmonella in some particularly risky poultry products.