Category: Other Developments
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APHA’s Annual Meeting to Include Sessions on Food Taxation, Labeling, Marketing, and Legal Strategies
The American Public Health Association’s 141st annual meeting and exposition is slated for November 2-6, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. Expected to attract more than 13,000 physicians, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists, and featuring a myriad of presentations, the meeting will include a session on “Regulating for the Public’s Health: Food and Beverages, Drugs, and Emerging…
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New “Buycott” App Draws Media Attention
A new mobile application that allows consumers to learn more about the company and manufacturing process behind a specific product has attracted nationwide media attention, with ABC News “Technology Review” recently naming it “App of the Week.” Created by Los Angeles based developer Ivan Pardo, the “Buycott” app encourages consumers to scan product barcodes to…
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Childhood Obesity Conference to Feature Keynote by Michael Moss
The seventh biennial Childhood Obesity Conference is slated for June 18-20, 2013, in Long Beach, California. Described as “the nation’s largest, most influential collaboration of professionals dedicated to combating pediatric obesity,” the event expects to draw nearly 2,000 attendees from across the nation. Agenda highlights include presentations by New York Times investigative journalist Michael Moss, New…
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Center for Food Safety Publishes “Guide to Food Industry Front Groups”
Public interest advocacy organization the Center for Food Safety has issued a report titled “Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups,” authored by food activist and attorney Michele Simon. The report describes what front groups are and how they purportedly function, drawing parallels with a cigarette industry trade group,…
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IOM Report on Salt Recommendations Draws Criticism
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently issued a report assessing the scientific evidence behind government recommendations that adults in the general population reduce dietary sodium intake to less than 2,300 milligrams per day and that certain groups of people at a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) reduce their salt consumption to 1,500 mg…
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Nutrition Professor Challenges Congressman’s Defense of STOP Act
New York University Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle has co-authored a rebuttal to claims that U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) made about a bill (H.R. 1572) which would prohibit the use of federal money “for print, radio, television or any other media advertisement, campaign, or form of publicity against the use of a food or non-alcoholic…
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Report Finds Contaminated Turkey Contains Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
According to a new Consumer Reports study that analyzed ground turkey purchased at retail store nationwide, more than one-half of the 257 samples tested were contaminated with fecal bacteria and “almost all” of the diseasecausing organisms “proved resistant to one or more of the antibiotics commonly used to fight them.” The magazine tested both conventional…