Category: Issue 554
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High-Temperature Cooking Allegedly Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
A study has allegedly linked the advanced glycation end products (AGEs) formed when “food is cooked at high temperatures or aged for a long time” to increased Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk. Lorena Perrone and William B. Grant, “Observational and Ecological Studies of Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products in National Diets and Alzheimer’s Disease Incidence and…
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CDC Study Targets Salt, Sugar in Infant and Toddler Foods
Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published a study claiming that many infant and toddler foods sold in the United States contain too much sodium or sugar. Mary Cogswell, et al., “Sodium and Sugar in Complementary Infant and Toddler Foods Sold in the United States,” Pediatrics, March 2015. Relying on…
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UK Group to Host Symposium Targeting Potential Impact of POPs on Obesity
The Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT), an independent group charged with providing counsel to various UK government agencies, is holding a March 18, 2015, symposium in Birmingham about the possible role of exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on the development of obesity. The robust agenda will…
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French Court Forbids “Nutella” Baby Name
A French court has reportedly rejected a couple’s choice of name for their baby, “Nutella,” and renamed her “Ella” because “the name ‘Nutella’ given to the child is the trade name of a spread” and “it is contrary to the child’s interest to be wearing a name like that” because it “can only lead to…
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Consumer Reports Touts Mandatory GMO Labeling
Citing increased demand for food and beverage products that do not contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as ingredients, the March 2015 issue of Consumer Reports magazine features an article intended to help consumers “sift through the facts” about the purported health and environmental effects of GMOs. The column describes recent attempts by individual states to…
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Former Diamond Foods CFO to Pay $125,000 in Walnut Fraud Case
Steven Neil, the former CFO of Diamond Foods Inc., has agreed to pay $125,000 to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit alleging that he directed his employees to underreport the amount of money paid to walnut growers to ensure that the company hit quarterly targets for earnings per share. SEC v. Diamond…
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Putative Class Action Challenging Source and Quality of Olive Oil to Continue
A California federal court has dismissed two claims and allowed four to continue in a putative class action alleging that (i) Salov North America Corp. mislabeled its Filippo Berio olive oils as “Imported from Italy” despite using olives grown and pressed in other countries and (ii) its extra virgin olive oils do not meet the…
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Federal Court Reopens and Stays Attune ECJ Case
A California federal court has granted plaintiffs’ motion to vacate the judgment and reopened a proposed class action against Attune Foods Inc., finding that the delay in guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on whether “sugar” is the “common or usual name” for “evaporated cane juice” (ECJ), an ingredient that appears on…