Food manufacturers use a legal loophole to introduce new food ingredients without FDA review—endangering public health and leaving consumers in the dark about what’s in our food. Here’s what you should know about the FDA’s review process—or lack thereof—for new food ingredients.
When it comes to food and supplements, confusion abounds. One reason: Some ideas catch on and linger, despite iffy evidence or, worse yet, studies that prove them flat-out wrong. Here’s a handful of claims to doubt.
FDA alerts online shoppers that tejocote root supplements may be toxic yellow oleander; Amazon warned to stop selling mislabeled erectile dysfunction drugs.
Balance of Nature ordered by a federal court in Utah to stop producing and selling nutritional supplements following multiple labeling and FDA standards violations.
Marijuana (aka cannabis) and THC, its intoxicating component, are legal in dozens of states. And enthusiastic claims for CBD, its non-intoxicating component, flourish online and in some drugstores. But confusion abounds about what cannabis and its components can—or can’t—do for your health.
Big Dairy’s ‘cheese rider’ puts profit over kids, the link between dollar stores and community health, no more diet pills for kids in New York, and more food safety, health, and nutrition news.
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.