CSPI's 2023 Progress Report and 2024 Action Plan & Menu of Campaigns

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is pursuing exciting food and health campaigns nationwide and partnering with communities seeking novel solutions to pressing policy concerns.

Deceptive marketing practices. Dubious health claims. Harmful additives. Punitive and bureaucratic nutrition assistance programs. Pathogens in your meat and greens. Restaurant meals excessively high in sodium and sugar. Under-regulated dietary supplements and lab tests.

These are the concerns that CSPI staff and our partners across the country are tackling – and winning!

CSPI championed recent wins such as a ban on Red 3 artificial food dye in California, excessive sugar warning labels for restaurant items high in added sugar in New York and healthy default kids’ menus at restaurants in the largest counties in Maryland. CSPI secured corporate commitments to increase folic acid fortification in corn masa products and to reduce sugar in flavored milks provided to schools nationwide. CSPI is taking legal action against makers of deceptive lab tests and driving public comment to new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that would regulate medical devices used for “precision nutrition.”

CSPI is reaching a wider audience after creating a platform to share our award-winning NutritionAction newsletter online and disseminating content increasingly through social media.

And – true to our name – we continue to ground our campaigns in independent, peer-reviewed scientific research.