Category: Issue 426
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Researchers Find Titanium Nanoparticles in Food and Personal Care Products
U.S., Swiss and Norwegian researchers have analyzed an array of consumer products sold in the United States to determine how much titanium dioxide they contained by weight in a first-ever human exposure analysis and concluded that food sources likely account for most of the titanium nanoparticles released into the environment. Alex Weir, et al., “Titanium…
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Researchers Allege “Modest Positive Association” Between Soda Consumption and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer
A recent pooled analysis from 14 prospective cohort studies has reportedly confirmed “a suggestive, modest positive association” between sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage (SSB) consumption and increased pancreatic cancer risk. Jeanine Genkinger, et al., “Coffee, Tea and Sugar-Sweetened Carbonated Soft Drink Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of 14 Cohort Studies,” Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers &…
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Diet Soft Drinks Reportedly Associated with Increased Vascular Risk
A recent study has allegedly linked diet soft drink consumption with an increased risk of vascular events. Hannah Gardener, et al., “Diet Soft Drink Consumption Is Associated with an Increased Risk of Vascular Events in the Northern Manhattan Study,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, February 2, 2012. Researchers evidently collected data from 2,564 adults in…
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Meta-Analysis Allegedly Links Salt Intake to Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer
A meta-analysis of prospective studies has reportedly concluded that “dietary salt intake was directly associated with a risk of gastric cancer…, with progressively increasing risk across consumption levels.” Lanfranco D’Elia, et al., “Habitual Salt Intake and Risk of Gastric Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies,” Clinical Nutrition, January 2012. Researchers apparently conducted a pooled analysis…
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CSPI to Present “Sugary Drinks Summit” in June 2012
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has announced“a national advocacy conference to motivate and strengthen national, state, and local initiatives, both public and private, to reduce sugary-drink consumption in the United States.” Scheduled for June 7-8, 2012, in Washington, D.C., the meeting is apparently designed for “researchers, government officials, state and local…
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ISAAA Reports 2011 Growth in GM Crop Acreage
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) has released its annual report on the global status of genetically modified (GM) crops, claiming that in 2011 “a record of 16.7 million farmers, up 1.3 million or 8 percent from 2010, grew biotech crops.” According to ISAAA, these gains reflected increased plantings by developing…
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Article Explores Intersection of Junk Food Ads Targeting Children and First Amendment
In an article supported, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, authors Jennifer Harris and Samantha Graff suggest that the findings of psychological research about the subliminal effects of food advertising on young people should be considered when advertisers defend their practices by invoking the First Amendment’s commercial speech doctrine. Harris, who is affiliated…
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Plaintiff’s Counsel Seeking Plaintiffs for Potential Action Against Gerber over Marketing Claims
A California-based attorney is apparently considering filing a class action lawsuit against Gerber on behalf of consumers purportedly misled by the company’s promotions for its baby food products. According to Ronald Marron, “Gerber claims that NutriProtect™ is ‘Nutrition for Healthy Growth & Natural Immune Support.’ But a close review of the ingredients, in tiny letters…