Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2012 |
''Drink Ingredient Gets a Look'' Sarah Kavanagh and her little brother were looking forward to the bottles of Gatorade they had put in the refrigerator after playing outdoors one hot, humid afternoon last month in Hattiesburg, Miss. But before she took a sip, Sarah, a dedicated vegetarian, did what she often does and checked the label to make sure no animal products were in the drink. One ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, caught her eye. Source: The New York Times |
Food Additives |
| Oct 29, 2012 |
Toxicology: The learning curve Researchers say that some chemicals have unexpected and potent effects at very low doses — but regulators aren't convinced.Source: Nature |
Food Additives |
| Aug 27, 2012 |
''Who Determines Safety of New Food Ingredients?'' "Grocery shoppers examining colorful packages bearing long lists of hard-to-pronounce ingredients might take comfort in the belief that those substances were deemed safe by the government. But that's not the case. Over the past 15 years, the vast majority of new ingredients added to U.S. food never received a safety determination from the government." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Additives |
| Jul 27, 2012 |
"There are serious weaknesses in a system that allows firms to self-affirm the safety of food ingredients without the approval or knowledge of regulators, according to researchers conducting a probe into the nation’s food additives law." Source: Food Navigator |
Food Additives |
| Oct 26, 2011 |
''Report: Industry decides food ingredient safety'' Thousands of ingredients that go into food have been classified as safe by private industry alone, without any government oversight, according to a new report published Wednesday...The peer-reviewed report published in the Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety journal draws on research funded by the Pew Health Group, the health and consumer safety arm of the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts. Source: Associated Press |
Food Additives |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety'' "Families, public health advocates and consumer groups called on the White House on Tuesday to implement delayed provisions in a food safety law they say would help prevent some of the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year." Source: Reuters |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''White House under fire for delays on food safety rules'' "Dana Dziadul and her mother, Colette, are joining other food safety advocates in urging the White House to implement provisions of a federal law that President Barack Obama signed in January 2011." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Groups Urge Action on Food Safety Law'' "Ten consumer groups that helped promote a landmark food safety law passed in 2010 say the Obama administration is holding up the rules that would put it into effect, a delay they say could cost money and lives this summer, the peak season for food contamination outbreaks." Source: The New York Times |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Teen who nearly died after eating contaminated cantaloupe speaks out'' A Brevard County, FL, teenager who helped bring about the Food Safety Modernization Act told WFTV she wanted to know why the federal law isn't being fully implemented. Source: WFTV-9 |
Food Hazards |
| Jun 22, 2012 |
''FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act needs funding to protect food supply'' "Over the past two months, a food-borne illness outbreak linked to salmonella in raw tuna has sickened more than 300 people nationwide — and caused many consumers to second-guess what’s actually in their spicy tuna rolls." Source: The Kalamazoo Gazette |
Food Hazards |
| May 3, 2012 |
''Rules 'holdup' puzzles food industry and food-safety advocates'' "Most of the provisions in a landmark food safety law which passed 16 months ago still haven't gone into effect and are stuck in a rule-making process at the White House, four months overdue." Source: CNN |
Food Hazards |
| May 2, 2012 |
''Food-safety rules in limbo at Office of Management and Budget'' "More than a year after President Obama signed a landmark food-safety bill, the key provisions are hung up at a unit of the White House that is in charge of reviewing proposed policy changes." Source: The Washington Post |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 14, 2012 |
''Study: Imported Food Increasingly Causing US Illness'' "Imported food is making Americans sick more frequently than ever, according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC." Source: Voice of America |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 14, 2012 |
''Food imports blamed for disease outbreaks'' "Nearly half of all food borne disease outbreaks in 2009 and 2010 were caused by imported food according to new numbers from the Centers for Disease Control." Source: ABC7 KGO-TV |
Food Hazards |
| Jan 12, 2012 |
''FDA: Fungicide In Orange Juice Is Not A Health Risk'' "The Food and Drug Administration is stepping up testing of orange juice after finding traces of a chemical fungicide that is not approved for use in the United States." Source: National Public Radio |
Food Hazards |
