Category: Other Developments
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Public Health Law Conference to Address “Addiction,” Preemption and FSMA Issues
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics will sponsor a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 10-12, 2012, that will focus in part on food-related issues. The “Public Health law Conference 2012: Practical Approaches to Critical Challenges,” event will include concurrent sessions titled (i) “If Sugar Is Addictive, What Does It Mean for the Law?,”…
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Rudd Center Posts Fall 2012 Speakers Schedule
The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has posted its fall 2012 speakers schedule, noting that the center “welcomes speakers from different disciplines to present and discuss their work and its implications for the study of obesity and food policy.” Among those on the roster are Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jason Riis,…
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Brownell Co-Edits Book of Essays on Food and Addiction
Yale University Psychology Professor Kelly Brownell has published a collection of essays with co-editor Mark Gold, Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook, that, according to Amazon.com “brings scientific order to the issue of food and addiction, spanning multiple disciplines to create the foundation for what is a rapidly advancing field and to highlight needed advances…
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Documentary Targets GM Agriculture
The Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) has released a new documentary, Genetic Roulette: The Game of Our Lives, that accuses the U.S. government of permitting “untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply.” Based on IRT founder Jeffrey Smith’s book of the same title, the film alleges that “the same serious health problems…
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Will Plain Cigarette Packs in Australia Lead to Similar Food-Packaging Restrictions?
In the wake of an Australian High Court ruling validating regulations requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packages, some commentators are speculating whether other products, such as alcoholic beverages and fast food, will be subject to the same types of restrictions. The opinion, penned by Patrick Carlyton, suggests that because alcoholism and obesity also…
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RAND Researchers Say Alcohol-Control Policies Could Be Useful to Address Obesity
A peer-reviewed article appearing in Preventing Chronic Disease explores how five alcohol-control policies could hold promise in addressing the obesity epidemic if used to regulate access to low-nutrient foods. Deborah Cohen & Lila Rabinovich, “Addressing the Proximal Causes of Obesity: The Relevance of Alcohol Control Policies,” Preventing Chronic Disease, May 2012. The policy interventions discussed…
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Commentary Explores Policy Impact of Food Addiction Model
Researchers with the University of Michigan and Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity have authored commentary in Biological Psychiatry about the policy implications of an addiction model for food. Ashley Gearhardt & Kelly Brownell, “Can Food and Addiction Change the Game?,” Biological Psychiatry, August 2012. Gearhardt and Brownell argue that scientific efforts…
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CSPI Calls on Welch Foods to Cease Making Deceptive Health-Benefit Claims
Welch Foods, Inc. is the most recent recipient of a letter from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) warning the company that, if not otherwise resolved, the watchdog’s claims that Welch is making deceptive health-benefit representations about its fruit snacks, spreads and juices will be taken to court for injunctive relief. According…