One Red Lobster Meal, Plus Cocktail, Hits 3,600 Calories June 3, 2015 Imagine chowing down on an eight-piece bucket of KFC Original Recipe fried chicken, four sides of mashed potatoes with gravy, four pieces of corn on the cob, and eight packets of buttery …
Statement of CSPI Senior Food Safety Attorney David W. Plunkett June 2, 2015 Because the federal government purchases a lot of meat and poultry, the President’s action will help drive more food companies to reduce use of antibiotics in food production. And …
Statement of CSPI Nutrition Policy Director Margo G. Wootan May 27, 2015 Soda and other sugary drinks raise kids’ risks for diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, and it’s completely inappropriate for restaurants to promote them as the default choice with …
May 21, 2015 A new analysis of potential health care cost savings to be achieved by reducing sodium in the U.S. diet shows annual savings ranging from $36 million for Wyoming to $2.4 billion for California. Americans currently consume about 3,500 …
Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson May 20, 2015 Many Americans were surprised to learn recently that many baby foods made by Plum Organics had more water or cheap apple purée than any of the kale, spinach, quinoa, blackberries, or …
Statement of CSPI Biotechnology Director Greg Jaffe May 15, 2015 The verified “non-GMO” program announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture may constitute a first step out of the morass posed by the state-by-state debates over labeling of foods with …
2011 Food Safety Law Required System in Place in 2012 May 15, 2015 The Food and Drug Administration must immediately require grocery stores to post notices alerting their customers to food recalls in order to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act, …
May 14, 2015 Dairy Queen has agreed to remove sodas from its listing of kids’ meals on menu boards and replace them with milk and water. The announcement makes the Minneapolis-based subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway the latest major fast-food chain to …
Petition on Change.org Urges Crayola Not to Market Highly Dyed Products to Children May 13, 2015 Nine-year-old Alessandra Rossi has struggled with food-induced hyperactivity since she was a toddler, triggered in part by artificial dyes. So when she and her …
CSPI Notifies Companies of Potential Lawsuits if Deceptive Marketing Continues May 12, 2015 Plum Organics boasts of healthful and trendy ingredients such as kale, quinoa, blackberry, and Greek yogurt on labels of its baby food pouches, when in fact the …
Guidelines Should Advise Americans to Consume More Fruits and Vegetables, Water, and Whole Grains, and Less Sugar, Salt, and Red and Processed Meat May 11, 2015 A broad coalition of national and regional health, environmental, and consumer organizations …
Statement of CSPI Health Promotion Policy Director Jim O’Hara May 8, 2015 Consumers need to know how much added sugar is in their food and beverages to make healthy choices. The best way to do that is having an “added sugars” line on Nutrition Facts panels …
Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson May 5, 2015 Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40, and other artificial food dyes shouldn’t be in the food supply in the first place, but I applaud Panera for getting rid of them. It also makes sense for Panera …
Statement of CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson April 24, 2015 The good news in today's announcement that PepsiCo will replace the artificial sweetener aspartame with sucralose, likely a safer sweetener, in Diet Pepsi is twofold. First, it …
Flawed ‘GRAS’ System Lets Novel Chemicals Into Food Supply without FDA Safety Review April 15, 2015 Consumers are being exposed to potentially dangerous chemicals that industry self-certifies as safe for use in foods, with little or no scrutiny from the …
Statement of CSPI Senior Food Safety Attorney David Plunkett April 13, 2015 The DeCosters oversaw conditions on a farm that caused thousands of illnesses and was cited by the Food and Drug Administration for its deplorable conditions. Their sentence …
April 8, 2015 Leading public health scientists and researchers today announced their support for bills in California and New York to require warning labels on soda and other sugar drinks to inform consumers of the risk of diabetes, obesity, and tooth decay …
Statement of CSPI Senior Food Safety Attorney David Plunkett March 27, 2015 We must not continue to jeopardize the most important drugs in human medicine by recklessly squandering them on farm animals. The Obama Administration's National Action Plan …