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- Industry Should Find Alternatives to BPA
- It's time to move away from Bisphenol A BPA, a chemical commonly used in plastic containers and -- as Consumer Reports recently highlighted -- canned food containers as well. The latest buzz on BPA is that high levels of exposure were shown to cause erectile dysfunction and...
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Food Safety Bill Passes House
- The Food Safety Enhancement Act survived a house vote, passing 283-142 in a move that earned praise from President Obama, the National Restaurant Association, and the United Fresh Produce Association, among others. The bill would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to order food recalls,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Wal-Mart Regrets Exec's Comments on Health Care for Immigrants
- Oops. Apparently Wal-Mart is not pleased with something one of its executives said about health care. Wal-Mart recently announced its support for requiring large corporations to provide health insurance to their employees. But a Wal-Mart VP took things one step further last weekend while speaking on a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- New Strategy Against Bottled Water: Satire
- [caption id="attachment_870" align="alignright" width="325" caption="Tappening bottled water anti-ad"][/caption] "Bottled water makes acid rain fall on playgrounds," says a new ad created by Tappening, a New York-based group taking on bottled water for environmental reasons. The disclaimer appears in small letters at the bottom of the ad: "If...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Unilever Pushes Trans Fat One Step Closer to Extinction
- Unilever this week became the latest company to get rid of artificial trans fat, an ingredient linked to heart disease. The company is removing all partially hydrogenated oil a source of trans fat from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Country Crock and other spreads. The phasing-out will start next...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Meat Groups are Anti-Science on Antibiotics Issue
- For years, doctors and scientists have warned that overuse of antibiotics has an ugly tendency to produce antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, which is dangerous for everyone. Now even the Food and Drug Administration has gotten on board, recently voicing its support for the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act....
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- U.S. and China in Chicken Trade Fight
- China is not happy about the United States' refusal to import poultry from China. According to China, the policy is discriminatory and breaks international trade rules. But the U.S. says its import decisions are based on scientific safety standards and are therefore not illegal or discriminatory. The...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Rockstar Exec, Son of Michael Savage, Disavows Homophobia
- It's amazing how fast reputations can rise and fall, thanks to the Internet. Within the gay and lesbian community, Rockstar Energy Drinks recently went from off the radar to pariah to best friend, all within a couple of months. It started when a guest blogger on the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- By Any Other Name: Starbucks Goes Incognito
- Apparently Starbucks has decided to venture into a new business: that of the "little, neighborhood coffee shop." The company took a Seattle store slated for closure and instead decided to reopen the place as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, a coffee shop without any Starbucks logos or branding. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Whole Foods Pushes Non-GMO Label
- Whole Foods has partnered with the Non-GMO Project in an attempt to promote testing and labeling of foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients. The grocer's private label products will use the project's Product Verification Program PVP, which uses on-site facility audits and DNA testing to ensure compliance. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Food Roundup: Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, E. Coli Mystery and More
- Wal-Mart to measure sustainability of all products -- Wal-Mart has been developing a "sustainability index" to measure the environmental impact of every product it sells. The company isn't set to announce the project until Thursday, according to Marc Gunther of The Big Money, but he spoke with faculty at the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Second Thoughts on Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut and Social Media
- I recently praised Dunkin' Donuts new "Dunkin' Run" program, a web site and iPhone application that helps coordinate coffee-and-donut runs among friends or colleagues, but perhaps I was too hasty. Apparently the iPhone application has an average rating of only two stars -- and you can't register from the iPhone...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Bottled Water Faces New Scrutiny
- Bottled water, long the enemy of environmentalists, is now getting picked on over a new issue: regulation. As in, there really isn't any. Tap water, it turns out, is regulated more strictly than water sold in a bottle. As a food product, bottled water is regulated by the Food...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Dole Sues Creators of 'Bananas!' Documentary
- Dole has filed a defamation suit against the maker of the documentary "Bananas!" which covers a banana pesticide case brought by a group of Nicaraguans against Dole. Before the film came out, Dole sent cease and desist letters to the filmmakers and tried to persuade the Los...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Higher Offer Secures PepsiCo Bottler Buyback
- After a three-month stalemate, PepsiCo finally reached a compromise with its biggest bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas. PepsiCo will buy back the shares it does not already own in the two companies for a total of $7.8 billion. The news sent stocks up for all three companies. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- New Product Watch: Warm Ice Cream and Caffeinated Beef Jerky
- Unilever says it's not working on ice cream that can be sold at room temperature, despite what the Times of London reported yesterday. According to the article, scientists from Cambridge were using Unilever's own laboratories to develop an ice cream product that would not need to be frozen until after...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Nutrition Study Misses the Point of Organic
- The organic food community is livid over a recent study funded by the British Food Standards Agency. On the whole, the study found, organic foods don't contain more nutrients than those conventionally grown. According to a London paper's further interpretation of the results, "Eating organic food in the belief that...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- FDA Wary of 'Smart Choices' Label
- The Food and Drug Administration has written a letter to the manager of the Smart Choices program, a front-of-package labeling scheme that is supposed to let consumers know which products are better for their health. The letter [PDF] -- which nutritionist Marion Nestle posted on her blog -- doesn't have...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- It's National 'Pick On McDonald's' Week
- In the mood for "talking smack" about McDonald's? Join the club. Carl's Jr. spent last week dissing the Big Mac and McDonald's new Angus burger, and now Burger King is "trash-talking McDonald's Double Cheeseburger." It's mostly a size war; both rivals say McDonald's makes puny products. CKE...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Food Roundup: PepsiCo and Print Videos, Burgerville and Bicycles, and More
- Pepsi Max part of first print video ad campaign -- Entertainment Weekly is trying out video ads in its magazines next month. Created by Americhip, the ads have a thin, two-inch screen and the video starts playing when the pages is turned. The screens can hold 40 minutes of video....
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
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