Why Are Supplement Names So Confusing
The FDA keeps an ingredient monitoring list to help protect our public health. Also known as “buyer beware”.
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Database Reveals 16,000 Foods That May Be Packaged with BPA
Despite the mounting evidence of BPA’s health risks at very low doses, federal regulation is lagging.
Read MoreEuropean Approved Health and Nutritional Claims
How much of a bigger share from the Universe Of Food could we get if we talked more about the benefits of what it is we’re trying to regulate?
Read MoreThe 2017 Top Dirty Dozen List Of Produce With The Most Pesticides
On the list: strawberries, spinach, nectarines, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes, celery, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes and more.
Read MoreHow ”Extreme Levels” of Monsanto’s Herbicide Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the absence of toxins, whether man-made or from other sources. We should be looking at both sides of that equation but we’re not.
Read MoreBuyer Beware When It Comes To Food Labels
Just because food got complicated is no reason for you to be in the know about it. Buyer beware when it comes to understanding labels.
Read More5 Key GMO Issues On Lack Of Sufficient Safety Testing
If there isn’t a difference between conventional and natural food, why the patent? If there’s intellectual property to protect, that’s fine. But trade secrets don’t trump product safety testing.
Read MoreUS Restricts Japanese Food Imports Over Radionuclide Contamination Concern
According to Import Alert 99-33 issued by US FDA, a list of Japanese food will be banned unless they pass physical examination. It includes milk, butter, milk-based infant formula, and other milk products, vegetables and vegetable products, rice and whole grain, fish, meat and poultry, venus clam, sea urchin, yuzu fruit and Kiwi fruit.
Read MoreIs Your Friday Night Glass Of Wine Contaminated With This Chemical Compound?
As if we needed another reason to pay attention to what we put into our mouth when we eat and drink, it seems our glass of wine might be riskier than we thought. Heed the message, Please spare the messenger.
Read MoreThe GMO Fight Ripples Down the Food Chain
Genetically modified foods, or GMOs, are in an estimated 80% of packaged foods. Some companies, like Ben & Jerry’s, are trying to go GMO-free. But it’s not easy.
Read MoreThe Food Safety Fight Coming To Your Natural Products
If you’ve ever wondered about food safety in the natural products category this interrview explains some of the ways your natural products manufactures are coming to terms with food safety. As always, it’s more complicated than you would expect, but it’s worth taking a look at the landscape of how natural products remain natural and safe
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know about Nanotechnology and Food Safety
You probably weren’t ready for one more thing to be worried about when it comes to your food, were you? Well you’ll likely be hearing the word nano or nanotechnology in the future. What that has to do with your food is why you want to be aware.
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