Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson July 12, 2016 Alcohol can be a major source of calories for many Americans, and the absence of calorie labeling on cans and bottles has helped obscure that. It’s good news for consumers that the biggest …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman July 1, 2016 The recent Tufts study purporting to show that butter is not linked to a higher risk of heart disease misleads the public. It comes as no surprise that a single food like butter is not linked …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson June 16, 2016 The final vote on Mayor Jim Kenney’s soda tax proposal is a huge win for the city’s children and parents, who will now benefit from expanded pre-K and parks. The mayor’s leadership and …
Red 40, Yellow 5, and Other Dyes Cause Hyperactivity and Other Behavioral Problems in Children June 13, 2016 Of 810 products marketed to children, 350, or 43 percent of them, contained Red 40, Yellow 5, or other artificial food dyes, according to new …
CSPI Urges Other Cities and States to Raise Revenue, Protect Public Health with Soda Taxes June 9, 2016 A proposed 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax on soda and diet soda cleared a key committee hurdle in Philadelphia’s City Council today in a major victory for Mayor …
Move by Agency Comes After CSPI LawsuitIf fully achieved by the food industry, the voluntary sodium-reduction targets released today in draft form by the Food and Drug Administration could help prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths annually from …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson May 26, 2016 Strike two! The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied today the National Restaurant Association’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop the New York City Department of Mental …
Hundreds of People Have Died Since FDA Learned of the Public Health Hazard May 26, 2016 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should stop dragging its feet and act on a four-year-old petition urging the agency to regulate deadly bacteria in shellfish …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman May 20, 2016 The new study published in the Lancet this evening by Mente, et al. suffers from the same flaws as earlier studies by the same authors. The new study purported to find an increased risk of …
CSPI Praises FDA, First Lady, Administration for Revisions to the Labels May 20, 2016 A line disclosing added sugars with a corresponding percent-Daily Value on updated Nutrition Facts labels should help consumers reduce their risk of obesity, type 2 …
May 19, 2016 The Kellogg Company is facing a lawsuit over the labeling of its Cheez-It Whole Grain crackers, which are primarily made of white flour and not the whole grain touted on the box. According to a complaint filed today in United States District …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Policy Director Margo G. Wootan May 18, 2016 The House child nutrition reauthorization bill would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson May 17, 2016 Judge Edward Chen’s ringing knock-down of Big Soda’s efforts to derail San Francisco’s requirement for a health warning on sugar drink advertisements is a major step forward in public health …
Statement of CSPI Biotechnology Director Gregory Jaffe May 17, 2016 The National Academy of Sciences has produced a thorough and comprehensive evidence-based report that addresses many of the issues that have arisen about genetically engineered crops. Its …
January 19, 2016 The Food and Drug Administration is failing to protect children from the disturbing behavioral problems caused by artificial food dyes, even though evidence of those problems has continued to mount since 2011, when an FDA advisory panel …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Policy Director Margo G. Wootan January 19, 2016 A Senate bill that would reauthorize child nutrition programs is a sensible bipartisan compromise that preserves the important progress made in the last five years while giving a …
February 3, 2016 Americans are getting increasingly used to seeing calorie counts on chain-restaurant menus as the industry prepares to comply with the menu-labeling provisions enacted into law in 2010. Calorie counts have otherwise been mandatory at …
Statement of CSPI Senior Food Safety Attorney David Plunkett February 4, 2016 The new performance standards announced today by the Food Safety and Inspection Service should reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination on ground chicken and turkey as …
Statement of CSPI President Michael F. Jacobson February 5, 2016 Mars, Inc.’s bold action, announced today, that it will get synthetic food dyes out of its entire human food portfolio is a huge advance for parents and children and should serve as a …
New Animal Study Indicates Cancer Risk February 8, 2016 The Center for Science in the Public Interest has downgraded its safety rating of sucralose, the artificial sweetener also known by the brand name Splenda, from “caution” to “avoid” in the group’s …
