Tag: cancer
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Red Meat Review Finds Alternate Conclusions on Health Effects
Researchers have published a review of studies evaluating the effects of “reducing red meat intake on clinically important outcomes” and purportedly showed that red meat may not have the carcinogenic effects that previous studies have found. Zeraatkar et al., “Effect of Lower Versus Higher Red Meat Intake on Cardiometabolic and Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Review…
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ASA Upholds Challenge to Ad Linking Milk Consumption to Cancer
The U.K. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a challenge to a bus poster sponsored by Viva, a vegan-advocacy group, that claimed the hormones in cow’s milk have been “linked to cancer.” Viva asserted that consumers interpret the words “linked to” as a phrase “commonly used to express an association between two factors when there…
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Advocacy Groups Seek to Compel FDA Ruling on Food Additive Petition
Eight advocacy groups have filed a joint petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rule on a 2016 citizen petition seeking recission of approval for several artificial flavorings used in food that have been linked to cancer. Breast Cancer Prevention v. FDA, No. 18-71260 (9th Cir.,…
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EFSA Rejects Study Linking Sucralose to Cancer
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a statement rejecting an Italian study claiming a link between the use of the sweetener sucralose and cancer in mice. The EFSA Journal’s review of a 10-year study conducted by the Ramazzini Institute criticized the study’s design and methodology, concluding that available data does not support the…
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CSPI Urges USDA to Label Processed Meat and Poultry Products with Cancer Warnings
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for “a Label on Processed Meat and Poultry Products Warning the Public that Frequent Consumption May Increase the Risk of Colorectal Cancer.” Citing the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s finding that smoked, salted and/or cured bacon, hot…
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OEHHA Adds Furfuryl Alcohol to Prop. 65 List
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has announced the addition of furfuryl alcohol to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer in accordance with Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) regulations. OEHHA describes furfuryl alcohol as “formed in foods during thermal processing and as a result of…
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Report Claims Alcohol Consumption Causes Cancer
Taking issue with language that only loosely links alcohol consumption to increased cancer incidence, an article in the July 2016 issue of Addiction suggests that 5.8 percent of all cancer deaths worldwide are caused by alcohol-attributable cancers of the oropharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum, and female breast. Jennie Connor, “Alcohol consumption as a cause…
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Second Putative Class Action Targets Quaker Oats’ Glyphosate Use
A consumer has filed a putative class action against The Quaker Oats Co. alleging the company misrepresents its oatmeal products as natural and “eco-friendly” despite containing glyphosate, “a potent herbicide that last year was declared a probable human carcinogen by the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization.” Wheeler v. Quaker Oats Co., No.…