Industry self-regulation of food marketing to kids is far from perfect, often leaving major loopholes or failing to prove effective. With its recent updates, Unilever is taking steps in the right direction.
Sodas, fruit drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, and other sugary beverages lead to unhealthy weight gain and are linked to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Here's a roundup of what we're doing to help people dodge the sugar flooding our food supply.
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.
CSPI supports the Predatory Marketing Prevention Act (PMPA), an important public health measure, and we support
its goal of helping New York curb misleading food industry marketing.
Abbott and the Food and Drug Administration should clarify which infant formula products are part of a recall from Abbott’s Sturgis, Michigan facility, which is being investigated after five infant illnesses and two deaths that may have been caused by Cronobacter infection from contaminated formula.
“Consumers would find it disappointing that the ‘ginkgo’ in so many supplements isn’t 100 percent ginkgo,” notes Stefan Gafner, chief science officer at the American Botanical Council.
In three of the best studies, male and female rats and male (but not female) mice that were fed aspartame along with their food had higher rates of several cancers.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest today is urging the Food and Drug Administration to bring enforcement proceedings against companies that market dietary supplements, foods, or other products that contain phenibut—an illegal unapproved drug with a rocky safety record.
