What does it tell you about eating “conventionally grown” foods if your own health insurance plan includes in its newsletter a short article about eating “organic”? Harvard Pilgrim’s Winter 2009 mini-magazine includes a brief feature titled “Eating Organic on a Budget.” (see page 11) Now, if you read the “fine” print (the paragraph titled “A [...]
Citizen's Briefing Book update
The Citizen’s Briefing Book, which I mentioned in the post “Citizen’s Briefing Book at change.gov“ was closed on Sunday, January 18, 2009 (see “Wrapping up the Citizen’s Briefing Book“ entry on the change.gov blog). My comment “Revamp the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program” got only 210 votes overall and two comments. My two other [...]
Nestle caving in (and removing artificial coloring) … but only in Australia (and Britain)
The Age – Business News, World News and Breaking News in Australia reports in an article “Smarties to lose a little of their lustre†by Kelly Burke (December 20, 2008) that apparently Nestle Australia has caved in, and despite years of insisting that artificial coloring in candy and other food products is safe, has decided [...]
Food dyes and the Center for Science in the Public Interest
This isn’t exactly news – I found this information months ago, when the press release just came out, but I had no time to blog during the summer, so here it is: An organization calling itself the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban artificial [...]