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Jul 18, 2017 7New Danger for Small, Organic Farmers?
Fake organics aren’t the only threat to farmers growing real food. Next year, the FDA’s new produce safety rule will go into effect. This rule is part of the suite of new regulations that came about as a result of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that was signed into law in 2011. T...
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Aug 2, 2016 7Consumer Reports Attacks Supplements—Again
Their analysis is so flawed, one wonders if they know anything about cars or cameras, either. Action Alert! Last week, Consumer Reports (CR) published an article warning consumers about fifteen supplement ingredients “to always avoid.” The article repeats many of the same fallacies that we have ...
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Aug 11, 2009 0In 2007, complementary/alternative medicine accounted for 1.5 percent of all U.S. healthcare costs
Americans are voting with their pocketbooks. Although complementary and alternative medicine accounted for just 1.5 percent of all U.S. healthcare costs in 2007, Americans spent $33.9 billion out of pocket on CAM, 11.2 percent of all payments for healthcare. This sum is dwarfed by the $286.6 bil...
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Aug 22, 2016 0Coca-Crony: Sweet Ties to the CDC
More evidence suggests this government agency has been bought and paid for by Coca-Cola. We recently reported that a high-ranking official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had resigned after extensive ties to Coca-Cola were exposed. Dr. Barbara Bowman, director of the Division...
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Oct 18, 2016 0GE Food is Not Nutritionally Equivalent, but the FDA Is Allowing It Anyway
The FDA has no process for testing the safety and nutritional content of GE food. It relies on data from the companies themselves. GE crops have abnormalities in amino acids, vitamins and fatty acids (more: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). But the FDA is signing off on them anyway. The FDA doesn't approve or rej...
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Dec 8, 2009 1
FDA Misses Own Deadline
Over the past year, Pulse of Health Freedom has focused on safety concerns regarding bisphenol A (BPA) and the FDA’s puzzling about-face on this issue. In February 2009 the American Association for Health Freedom filed a petition with the FDA, asking that it rule on the practice of giving children...
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Mar 2, 2016 0Your Doctor Can’t Be Trusted…
FDA prevents your doctor from stocking compounded vitamins, other medicines Please help your doctor help you! …with methylcobalamin injections? The most active form of vitamin B12 is not allowed to be stocked in your doctor’s office? What’s going on? Physicians have had vitamin B12 inje...
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Sep 23, 2014 34
FDA, Flooded with Protests, Revises Food Safety Rules
The agency has responded to comments from ANH-USA activists and other stakeholders. Here’s what they’re proposing now. Action Alert! In May we reported that the FDA is currently drafting rules that implement the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). As we noted then, some of the rules that...
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Sep 28, 2010 24
A Small Frankenfish Win
As the Washington Post reported, “Environmental organizations, consumer groups and independent researchers assailed the plans of a Massachusetts company to market the first genetically modified animal as food in the United States—an Atlantic salmon—and argued at a public meeting Monday that fe...
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May 10, 2016 9FDA Defies Congress, Slips Money to Hospitals, and Stiffs Consumers
But we can stop it now. Action Alert! For some time now we have been explaining how the FDA appears to be trying to put compounding pharmacies out of business in order to boost the profits of its major client, the pharmaceutical industry. It doesn’t seem to matter to the agency that you will no lo...
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