Tag: fda
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#MorningMonarchy: March 30, 2016
Science “babes”, hospital hacks and tainted wine + this day in history w/Reagan shot and our song of the day by M83 on your Morning Monarchy for March 30, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 23, 2016
Suing Monsanto, automated restaurants and defensive food + this day in history w/the Enabling Act and our song of the day by PJ Harvey on your Morning Monarchy for March 23, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 16, 2016
Chemical safety, anti-packaging and Piss Krispies + this day in history w/My Lai and our song of the day by Wild Nothing on your Morning Monarchy for March 16, 2016.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode246 – Placebo Effect, CIA Retaliation, Iceland’s Still Right
A healthy mind’s the most effective drug; Another suspicious break-in points back to the Agency; Iceland still shows how to deal with banksters.
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U.S. Food, Chinese Processing: the Latest Food Outrage
from blacklistednews.com: The US FDA prevents such things as artisinal cheese and butter being imported from Europe, products that have been in use for hundreds of years and don’t make people sick, but–speaking of sick–this breathtakingly corrupt agency is allowing big food processors to grow food in the US but then process it in China in…
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Milk-Whitening Nanotech Enters US Food Supply Without FDA Oversight
from rawstory.com: The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) revealed earlier this week that there are over 1,600 nanotechnology-based products on the market today — and that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the authority to regulate them. As Mother Jones reported, some of these nanotechnological innovations — which refer to particles less…
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Efforts to Zap Bacteria in Food are Slow to Catch Hold?
from washingtonpost.com: The nuclear energy that Frank Benso uses to kill bacteria in fruit and oysters has won widespread support from public health officials and scientists, who say it could turn the tide against the plague of foodborne illness. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of radiation to wipe out pathogens in…
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GMO Salmon May Soon Go On Sale, But Will Anyone Buy It?
from foxnews.com: It’s taken almost two decades, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may be close to a ruling on the world’s first genetically modified animal protein. AquAdvantage salmon is a product of the Massachusetts-based biotech firm AquaBounty Technologies. Designed to reach market size in about half the time of standard farmed salmon, the…
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The Year In Food: What 2013 Cooked Up
from newsobserver.com: It was bound to be a weird year in food news for 2013… It was the year National Public Radio reminded us that you shouldn’t wash raw chicken before you cook it (true) but blamed Julia Child for doing it wrong (not fair even if it was true). It was the year that…
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FDA to Make Food Safety Rules Farmer-Friendlier, Monsanto’s Michael Taylor Says
from usatoday.com: The Food and Drug Administration says it will revise sweeping new food safety rules proposed earlier this year after farmers complained the rules could hurt business. Michael Taylor, FDA’s commissioner for foods, said the agency wants to make sure the rules are practical for farmers who have to abide by them.
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FDA Scrutinizes Antibacterial Products for Hormonal Disruption
from wired.com: The FDA has announced that it is formally reconsidering “antibacterial” soaps and other personal-care products, charging that the antibacterial ingredients confer no benefit over regular soap and water while carrying extra risks. In a draft rule that will be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, the agency calls for manufacturers of consumer antibacterial…
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FDA Safety Rule Webpage Crashes Before Comment Deadline
from cornucopia.org: Family farm and consumer advocates have been working for weeks to ensure meaningful public comment on the FDA’s proposed food safety rules. Now the government website that serves as a portal for the public’s comments on food safety is offline, out-of-service, or even refusing to accept comments. “This is potentially disenfranchising thousands of…
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FDA to Ban Artery-Clogging Trans Fats
from abcnews.go.com: Heart-clogging trans fats were once a staple of the American diet, plentiful in baked goods, microwave popcorn and fried foods. Now, mindful of the health risks, the Food and Drug Administration is getting rid of what’s left of them for good. The FDA announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually…
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For First Time, FDA Addresses Pet Food Safety
from cnn.com: For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to make animal feed and pet food sold in the United States safer. A new proposed rule issued Friday aims to protect all animal foods from disease-causing bacteria, chemicals and other contaminants.
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FDA Urging Tighter Rein on Painkillers
from nytimes.com: The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recommended tighter controls on how doctors prescribe the most commonly used narcotic painkillers, changes that are expected to take place as early as next year. The move, which represents a major policy shift, follows a decade-long debate over whether the widely abused drugs, which contain the…