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September 2000
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News From CSPI We need your help. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked the public whether refined (added) sugars should be included on Nutrition Facts labels. You can bet that the food industry will try to kill sugar labeling... |
AskMen.com
February 1, 2001
Simon McNeil |
The 10 Most Unhealthy Foods |
Food Processing
January 2007
David Joy |
FDA considers functional foods There is no formal regulatory definition associated with the term "functional foods," but the FDA is soliciting information and comments on whether or not these foods should be regulated more strictly. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
April 1999
Beth Brophy & David Schardt |
Functional Foods ...What's wrong with adding vitamins, fiber, herbs, and extracts to foods that ordinarily don't contain them?... |
AskMen.com
September 25, 2003
Mike Davison |
The Truth About Sugar & Artificial Sweeteners If you respect the accepted daily intakes set out by the FDA, and consume them only in moderation, there are healthy ways to reduce calories and add sweetness without altering blood sugar levels. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
October 2000
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI What happens when nutrition meets money? Consider: More and more "independent" professional organizations, researchers, and "consumer" groups receive funding from industry, something many fail to disclose when they talk to journalists... |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Drug Warning Labels: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Once a drug is approved, investors can't fall asleep and ignore FDA announcements about drugs. They come in different varieties, but warnings tend to be of the bad and ugly variety more often than the good. |
Prepared Foods
February 1, 2005
Marcia A. Wade |
Retro Reductions As low-carb diets take a dip in popularity, reduced-fat and reduced-calorie products are making a comeback. And many of the ingredients that made low-carb possible also can assist in the formulation of low-fat and low-calorie products. |
Food Processing
April 2007 |
Wellness Foods HealthBites: April What's happening in the world of nutrition and health. |
Food Processing
April 2007
Leslie Krasny |
Wellness Foods' Regulatory Issues: It's a Natural The FDA has not been active in challenging "natural" claims for foods, although "warning" letters have been sent to manufacturers, particularly for the use of color additives in products bearing "natural" claims. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Eamon Javers |
Salt Could Soon Be on the Fed's Hit List The FDA is looking again at the role sodium plays in heart disease - and foodmakers are scrambling. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
April 2002
Michael F. Jacobson |
FDA Fiddles, While Americans Die You won't see the word "trans" -- meaning heart-damaging trans fat -- on most Nutrition Facts labels any sooner than 2007. Knowing that the delay means 2,000 to 5,000 deaths each year doesn't seem to bother the food industry or the government one whit... |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
April 2001 |
Food Allergies For most sufferers, allergic reactions to food are a temporary discomfort. But not for the estimated 30,000 people each year in the U.S. who eat the wrong food and go into anaphylactic shock... |
Food Processing
August 2006
David Joy |
Regulatory Issues: Opportunities and challenges of functional ingredients There is more than one way to conclude whether a functional ingredient intended for addition to food is legal. |
Prepared Foods
July 22, 2007
Mark Hostetler |
Promoting Safe and Nutritious Congress, the FDA and USDA have created a changing regulatory environment for food marketers. |
Prepared Foods
August 11, 2006 |
Enrichment and Health Claims This article highlights several threshold legal principles that govern what nutrients may be added to which foods and at what levels. |
Food Processing
January 2008 |
From the Bench: Enzymes This group of enzymes enables longer shelf life for bread, more flavorful cheese and carcinogen-reducing yeasts. |
Science News
January 3, 2004
Kate Ramsayer |
Putting Labels on Nutrients Do those nutrition fact boxes on packaged foods supply the information that people really need? Two new reports suggest that they don't. |
Food Processing
July 2006
David Feder |
Editor's Plate: AMA not worth its salt It seems the American Medical Assn. has decided MDs know more about nutrition than nutrition scientists. They don't. It should focus its attention on issues it's supposed to know about -- like how to care for sick people. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Value Investing, Biotech Style Biotech investors should regard every binary event as a varying degree of confidence in a positive or negative result. |
Prepared Foods
September 1, 2006
William A. Roberts, Jr. |
Claiming a Function Functional foods can claim preventative health benefits, but be careful to not infer a cure-all food. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2010
Luke Timmerman |
Arena Obesity Drug Effective by "Slim Margin"; Shares Tumble The market is reacting negatively to news about the company's weight-loss drug. |
Chemistry World
October 2009
Reuben & Coultate |
On the rise The ancient tradition of bread baking depends on a cascade of chemical reactions. Scientists have found myriad ways to modify the process. |
Food Engineering
July 6, 2009 |
USDA urged to reverse Bush-era gag rule preventing criticism of soda Bush-era rules at USDA prohibit states from using federal nutrition education funds for discouraging soda consumption, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is urging Secretary Tom Vilsack to reverse them. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The poison pill The media, the government and the drug companies: They're all to blame for the fen-phen debacle, says "Dispensing With the Truth" author Alicia Mundy... |
Delicious Living
Thea Deley |
The FDA Rules: The Function in Foods If your morning glass of orange juice contained calcium, or your lunchtime salad dressing boasted vitamin E, or perhaps your midafternoon snack bar supplied ginseng, you ingested nutraceuticals today. Surprised? |
Food Processing
March 2006
David Joy |
Questionable new tactics from the Food Police The Center for Science in the Public Interest assumes incorrectly that there is no room in a healthy diet for enjoyable foods. And its "acceptable advertising" approach raises a few interesting questions. |
Science News
April 2, 2005
Janet Raloff |
Improving Prospects for Functional Foods The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) reports the nutraceutical industry faces major roadblocks to expansion unless the federal government institutes new regulations to streamline the FDA's evaluation of candidates for this novel class of products. |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2010
Brian Orelli |
For Blockbuster Cancer Drugs, Approvals Are the Easy Part Don't get too excited. As an investor, you can lower your risk by investing in cancer drug companies after a clinical trial success but before an FDA approval, but you'll also reduce your reward. |
Food Engineering
January 1, 2007 |
Regulatory Watch After receiving comments from industry and consumer groups, FDA will decide whether there should be a regulatory definition of functional foods, and if so, what it should be. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2009
Brian Orelli |
A Tale of 2 Weeks It's been a busy two weeks at Genzyme as two nasty notes from the FDA follow two approvals. |
Food Processing
October 2008
Diane Toops |
A Conversation with Food Safety Czar David W.K. Acheson A exclusive conversation with `food safety czar' David W.K. Acheson, FDA's Associate Commissioner for Foods. |
Food Engineering
January 6, 2008 |
Regulatory Watch Push for larger FDA food safety budget... Study urged on food from cloned animal... |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2008
Brian Lawler |
A Bit of Irony From the FDA The agency has a mixed message on drug importation, as evidenced in the recent possible contamination of China-produced Heparin. |
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October 19, 2010
Brian Orelli |
Why the FDA Won't Approve Lorcaserin and Qnexa (Yet) Obesity drugs get their day in front of the agency. |
Food Processing
February 2007
Leslie Krasny |
Regulatory Issues: Food Allergen Update At the end of 2006, FDA issued Edition 4 of its Food Allergen Guidance for Industry. The revisions address four issues: Tree Nuts, Seafood, Wheat, and Single Ingredient Foods. |
The Motley Fool
December 31, 2010
Brian Orelli |
2010 FDA Approvals and a Look Ahead Recent history can help us handicap FDA decisions. |
