Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
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| Nov 21, 2012 |
''Report Says FDA Needs Workforce Improvements'' In 2007, an agency panel found that the FDA’s "scientific workforce does not have sufficient capacity and capability" and the agency is "not positioned to meet current or emerging regulatory responsibilities." The Pew Charitable Trusts wanted to know if that’s still the case, and asked the Partnership for Public Service to find out. "FDA has made progress," says the Partnership’s report, but the agency "continues to have significant workforce and management challenges in the scientific and medical arenas that need to be addressed." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Jul 28, 2012 |
''Report: Cutting School Junk Food Boosts Kids’ Health, Doesn’t Hurt School Budgets'' "A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation concludes that getting rid of junk food at school boosts kids’ health and doesn’t hurt schools financially. Even many snack food companies are on board." Source: WBUR Common Health Blog |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''Report: Healthy Vending, A La Carte Foods Won't Hurt School Revenue'' "The Kids' Safe & Healthful Foods Project and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation teamed up to analyze the effects of changing the makeup of so-called 'competitive foods' sold at school." Source: Education Week |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| 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 |
| Jun 26, 2012 |
''Report: School Nutrition Standards Could Improve Health and Finances'' "Stronger school nutrition standards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) could improve student health and provide a financial boon for school districts, according to a new health impact assessment (HIA) released Tuesday by the Health Impact Project and the Kids' Safe and Healthful Food Project." Source: Governing |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Sep 21, 2012 |
''Report: State Prescription Monitoring Programs Falling Short'' "Forty-nine states, including Maine, now operate a prescription monitoring program - or are putting one in place - to track the powerful pain medication dispensed by pharmacies. These databases have already helped in the fight to curtail diversion and abuse of prescribed opioids. But the way they operate - and how the data they collect gets used - varies widely from state to state." Source: The Maine Public Broadcasting Network |
Medical Safety |
| Oct 29, 2011 |
''Rising antibiotic use on farms prompts renewed push for federal restrictions'' "Public health advocates are renewing their push for stronger restrictions on antibiotics in food production after a Pew Health Group analysis of federal data found that their use was up 6.7 percent in 2010." Source: The Hill |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 19, 2010 |
Risk and Reward: An Interview with the Pew Health Group's Shelley Hearne In September, at an event in Iowa focused on food safety oversight, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin hailed Pew as “a true national treasure” and “a major source of light—and enlightenment.” That sentiment reached the core of the Pew Health Group’s commitment to improving public policy and informing the public by conducting rigorous analysis and developing fact-based solutions. Trust asked managing director Shelley Hearne to describe the strategy behind her multifaceted program, which ranges from enhancing food safety oversight and eliminating medical conflicts of interest to reform of credit-card industry practices. Source: Trust Magazine |
Food Safety |
| Jun 27, 2013 |
''Rules for School Vending Machines, Snacks Unveiled'' Education Week interviews Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project about the USDA's decision to finalize interim rules on snack foods and beverages sold in schools. Source: Education Week |
School Food |
| 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 |
| Apr 29, 2008 |
''S.C. Slow to Help in Home Crunch'' State lawmakers are pushing a measure that would protect future homebuyers from risky and high-cost mortgages. But their proposal doesn't address the thousands of South Carolina homeowners who are struggling to make monthly payments right now. Source: The Post and Courier |
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| Sep 19, 2011 |
''Safety of Foreign-Made Prescription Drugs'' "Allan Coukell talked about the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) report on the make-up of prescription drugs, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications." Source: C-SPAN |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Jan 2, 2012 |
''Salad bars are a hit at Hurst-Euless-Bedford elementary schools'' "As part of a plan to promote health, introduce children to fresh fruits and vegetables and wean them off junk food, the Hurst-Euless-Bedford district is adding salad bars to elementary schools." Source: Star-Telegram |
School Food |
| Aug 5, 2011 |
''Salmonella Strain In Turkey Recall Resists Antibiotics'' Gail Hansen, senior officer at Pew Health Group, is interviewed in an NPR segment about the debate on the practice of dosing farm animals with antibiotics. Source: National Public Radio |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 27, 2009 |
''Save Antibiotics to Save Human Lives'' ''In 2005, an estimated 18,000 people nationwide died from MRSA, one of the growing number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.'' Source: Public News Service |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 18, 2011 |
''School Food Politics: What’s Missing from the Pizza-as-Vegetable Reporting'' “Over the last couple of days, news outlets have been having a field day with a proposal from Congress that pizza sauce be considered a vegetable to qualify for the National School Lunch program." Source: Food Safety News |
School Food |
| Jul 9, 2012 |
''School lunches healthier, Administrators work to balance nutrition with appeal to students'' "A study released late last month delivers the message: Make competitive foods offered in schools healthier, too. The study was a collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and came from two projects, the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project – the director, Jessica Donze Black, is a University of Delaware graduate – and the Health Impact Project." Source: The News Journal |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jan 26, 2012 |
''School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains'' "Millions of students across the country should have similar healthy options in the years to come under the first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years." Source: Kearney Hub |
School Food |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''School Lunches: How The Food Industry Controls Student Meals'' “In a biting piece in The New York Times Sunday, investigative reporter Lucy Komisar offers an in-depth look at how the food in-depth look at how the food industry — and its complex web of internal alliances — is taking over school meals." Source: The Huffington Post |
School Food |
| Apr 2, 2013 |
''School Lunches: The New Battlefront in the War Against Obesity'' ''With one in three American children considered overweight or obese — and the trend dangerously upward — the federal government has launched a new campaign this school year to strengthen nutritional requirements for school lunches." Source: The Miami Herald |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2013 |
''Schools Hungry to Improve Taste, Nutrition of Lunches'' School foods are put to the "taste test" during an annual food event in Prince William County. Find out how students rated these nutritious meals. Source: USA Today |
School Food |
| Dec 5, 2011 |
''Schools put focus on healthy choices'' “As Congress fights over the legitimacy of tomato paste and pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables in school lunches, area private schools are taking the matter of children’s nutrition into their own hands.” Source: News-Press |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2013 |
''Schools Recognized for Nutrition, Health Programs'' The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Healthier U.S. School Challenge honored eleven elementary schools for promoting a health learning environment through school nutrition and exercise. Source: The Garden City Telegram |
School Food |
| Nov 6, 2011 |
''Schools track safety of food from farm to plate'' “Ecker’s Apple Farm apples are cooled, soaked and polished before being shipped off to Coulee Region schools.” Source: La Crosse Tribune |
School Food |
| Sep 14, 2008 |
Scientists are urging U.S. regulators to regularly screen the health and environmental effects of tiny engineered particles used in more than 800 consumer products, and step up oversight of the nanotechnology industry.
Source: Delaware Online |
