New Government Report Says FDA Should Ask Congress for More Authority over Health Claims
Who should worry about this? And will consumers learn even less about what they are eating?
25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
2011
Weight Loss Update: FDA Panel Recommends Making Lap-Band Surgery Available to 12 Million More People
The procedure may help more people shed the pounds. But it will also fill the coffers of surgeons, hospitals, and a global specialty pharmaceutical company.
18 Jan
2011
ANH-USA to File Health Claim for Vitamin D—and It’s All Thanks to You! (Plus a Vitamin D Update)
In addition to this exciting announcement, we have some troubling news to report: more conflicts of interest over the IOM’s vitamin D report, and more evidence from a top Harvard expert that the IOM recommendations fly in the face of good science. What is really going on here?
04 Jan
2011
The “Food Safety” Saga: Our Job Is Just Beginning
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act had more twists and turns than a big-city sewer system. Unexpected passage of the legislation at the very end of the lame duck Congress does not bring the story to a close. The fight goes on.
21 Dec
2010
Both House and Senate Vote YES on Food Safety Bill
Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed the Food Safety bill—which the Senate, in one of the most underhanded legislative maneuvers we’ve ever seen, approved late Sunday night. It now goes to the president to be signed into law.
14 Dec
2010
Last-Minute Washington Back-Room Dealing on Food Safety
We may have only one more chance to keep the dreadful so-called “food safety” language from becoming law through a legislative subterfuge. We have (quite literally!) up-to-the-minute information for you.
07 Dec
2010
Action Alert: Vitamin D Report Panelist Has Ties to Big Pharma
As we reported last week, the IOM’s new and absurdly low vitamin D recommendation flies in the face of scientific evidence. Now we need your help to get Congress to launch an investigation.
07 Dec
2010
Who’s Trying to Scuttle the Amendment that Protected Organic and Family Farms? Big Food on the Attack!
Today we reveal the thirty agribusiness front groups and industrial agriculture lobbyists that continue to fight the Tester amendment.
30 Nov
2010
Senate Food Safety Update
The bill, with language that is substantially different from its original version, passed the Senate on Tuesday morning by a vote of 73 to 25. Our update has up-to-the-minute information.
30 Nov
2010
Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
A new report, released today by the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, says that few people are vitamin D deficient. The scientific research says otherwise.