December 23, 2009
b>/b>br/>WASHINGTONIn a troubling trend, state health departments completed fewer foodborne illness investigations in 2007 than in the previous decade, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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November 24, 2009
b>Self-Regulation Proving Insufficient to Protect Children, Says CSPI/b>br/>WASHINGTONNearly 80 percent of food ads on the popular childrens network Nickelodeon are for foods of poor nutritional quality, according to an analysis conducted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. That represents a modest and not quite statistically significant drop from 2005, when CSPI researchers found that about 90 percent of food ads on Nick were for junk food. Between the 2005 and 2009 studies, the food industry instituted a self-regulatory program through the Council of Better Business Bureaus, the Childrens Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI).
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November 18, 2009
b>New Lab Tests of Movie Theater Popcorn Show Its Still the Godzilla of Snacks/b>br/>WASHINGTONIts hard to picture someone mindlessly ingesting three McDonalds Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter while watching a movie. But according to new laboratory analyses commissioned by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, that food is nutritionally comparable to what youd find in a medium popcorn and soda combo at Regal, the countrys biggest movie theater chain: 1,610 calories and three days worth60 gramsof saturated fat. (Nutrition aside, that combo costs $12for raw ingredients that must cost Regal pennies.)
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November 5, 2009
b>CSPI Urges EPA Not to Re-Register Products Unless Compliance Improves/b>br/>WASHINGTONOne out of every four farmers who plants genetically engineered (GE) corn is failing to comply with at least one important insect-resistance management requirement. That increases the likelihood that pesticide-resistant bugs will threaten the future of biotech crops and some of their non-biotech neighbors. That finding comes in a report released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to not renew registrations of the GE corn varieties unless compliance rates improve.
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October 21, 2009
b>CSPI Urges Quick Action, With More Frequent Inspections Testing/b>br/>Yes, the United States Senate is focused on health care reform. But if legislators want to save 5,000 lives and prevent 325,000 unnecessary and expensive hospitalizations each year, they should fix food safety too, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest…
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October 18, 2009
b>Statement of CSPI Food Safety Director Caroline Smith DeWaal/b>br/>For 15 years, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has been urging the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from Vibrio vulnificusthe deadly bacteria found in almost all Gulf Coast oysters harvested in warmer months. The FDA announced this weekend that the agency will now require those oysters shipped to other states to be processed to kill the pathogen.
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September 30, 2009
b>Drug Giant Tries to Silence CSPI With Threat of Libel Suit/b>br/>WASHINGTONThe Center for Science in the Public Interest has sued the German drug company Bayer for falsely claiming that the selenium in Mens One A Day multivitamins might reduce the risk of prostate cancer. The lawsuit is filed in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco.
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September 29, 2009
b>I actually think its an idea that we should be exploring.Theres no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. President Barack Obama to Mens Health/b>br/>WASHINGTONEven as 48 states and the District of Columbia are facing grim budget shortfalls, only 25 states currently impose special taxes on soda and other beverages with added sugar, and all of those taxes are very small. And according to a new paper from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, states could generate a total of more than $10 billion per year by levying a tax of 7 cents per 12-ounce can of Coke or Mountain Dew. If implemented by Congress in the form of a national excise tax, that $10 billion could make an important contribution toward paying for health coverage for all Americans.
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September 21, 2009
b>Bill Introduced Today Seeks Thorough Study of School-Based Marketing/b>br/>WASHINGTONDespite rising public concern over childhood obesity, food companies, through an industry-funded self-regulatory group, have proposed a set of principles by which the companies can use a variety of approaches to market junk food to children in schools. The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest today urged the industry group to go back to the chalk board and consider whether Ronald McDonald truly belongs in the classroom. Also today, a bill introduced in Congress would require the Department of Education to conduct a thorough assessment of school-based food marketing.
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