Category: Other Developments
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Largest U.S. Grocery Stores Join Pledge Against GE Salmon
The nation’s two largest grocery stores, Kroger and Safeway, have pledged not to sell genetically engineered (GE) salmon, joining a growing group of stores, including Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Aldi, H-E-B, Meijer, Hy-Vee, Marsh, and Giant Eagle, that have already rejected the GE salmon currently under final review by the U.S. Food and Drug…
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EWG Ramps Up Pressure on Companies Using Azodicarbonamide in Foods
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has followed up FoodBabe.com’s Vani Hari’s petition to Subway about using azodicarbonamide (ADA)—a “chemical used to make yoga mats, shoe soles and other rubbery objects”—in its U.S. food products, by launching its own petition directed to major brands purportedly using the chemical in some 500 food products. Details about Hari’s…
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Johns Hopkins Publication Focuses on Food; Caffeinated Waffles on Prof.’s Agenda
Johns Hopkins Public Health, a magazine of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, has devoted a special issue to food topics and includes an article about Health Policy and Management Professor Stephen Teret, who founded the Johns Hopkins Clinic for Public Health Law and Policy and recently engaged law students in a project addressing caffeinated…
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Tobacco Foe Banzhaf Predicts New Onslaught of Big Food Lawsuits
George Washington University Law Professor John Banzhaf, who is known for his anti-tobacco advocacy, contends that recent court rulings involving food company defendants facing consumer-fraud and product-mislabeling allegations have opened “the door even further to a growing wave of such suits.” He argues that class action lawsuits over labeling terms such as “natural” and “all…
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New Book Focuses on Industries Affecting Health
New York Times op-ed writer Mark Bittman, who frequently writes about food-related issues and calls for changes in government policy to address over- or unhealthy-consumption problems, has found an ally in City University of New York School of Public Health Professor Nicholas Freudenberg who has authored a new book titled Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption,…
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CSPI to Host Food Labeling Discussion
Public health watchdog the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has announced a February 26, 2014, meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss ways of improving the next generation of nutrition facts labels. NPR News correspondent Allison Aubrey is slated to moderate the panel with participants CSPI Executive Director Michael…
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Advocate Calls for Add-Ons to Sugary Beverage Taxes
Drawing on lessons from tobacco regulation, Temple University Associate Professor Jennifer Pomeranz has authored an article recommending that state and local governments which opt to impose taxes on sugary beverages consider also adopting measures such as minimum price laws and prohibitions on price discounting and coupons to effectively deter consumption. Titled “Sugary Tax Policy: Lessons…
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California Meat Processor Recalls 8.7 Million Pounds of Beef
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced that Petaluma, California-based meat processor Rancho Feeding Corp. has recalled nearly 9 million pounds of beef products—all of the beef processed by the company from January 2013 through January 2014 and shipped to California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas. According to FSIS, “the…