Category: Issue 663
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FDA’s Food Code 2017 Released
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the 2017 edition of the FDA Food Code, a set of model regulations and advice for the reduction of foodborne illnesses, including suggested uniform standards for retail food safety, inspections and audits. The Code includes (i) a requirement for a person in charge of the establishment…
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Study Purports to Link SSBs with Lower Fertility
A study from the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University’s School of Public Health has concluded that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) may reduce fertility in both males and females. Elizabeth E. Hatch, et al., “Intake of Sugar-sweetened Beverages and Fecundability in a North American Preconception Cohort,” Epidemiology. Researchers studied 3,828 women and 1,045 of…
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JAMA Op-Ed Calls for Activism Transparency in Food Research
In a JAMA Viewpoint article, researchers from Stanford University have argued that nutrition studies should be transparent about their authors’ financial and non-financial conflicts of interest, including their dietary preferences and activism work. Noting that “the puritanical view that accepting funding from the food industry ipso facto automatically biases the results is outdated,” the authors briefly…
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Court Denies Class Certification in Gerber Baby Food Labeling Suit
A federal court in California has again denied class certification in a lawsuit alleging that Gerber Products Inc. misbranded baby food, finding that the plaintiff is not entitled to injunctive relief and that the proposed damages models will not provide the correct measure of restitution. Bruton v. Gerber Prods. Co., No. 12-2412 (N.D. Cal., entered…