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Is the FDA Protecting the Public from Self-Sufficiency and Whole Foods with LDS Cannery Crackdown?
Has the GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration sent forth another volley in their war on whole foods and self-sufficiency? We all know that the FDA is present to further the agendas of Big Food and Big Agri as opposed to protecting the best interests of consumers, and rumor has it that their most recent antic ...
Triclosan In Antibacterial Soaps, Toothpaste Has Never Received Safety Approval From FDA
(NaturalNews) It is added to hundreds of consumer products ranging from hand soaps and body washes to toothpastes and even children's toys, but it has never received formal safety approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And even though the chemical industry claims that the antibacterial chemical triclosan is safe and effective, there ...
FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
On the morning of May 3, 2010, three agents of the Food and Drug Administration descended upon the Houston office of Cetero Research, a firm that conducted research for drug companies worldwide. Lead agent Patrick Stone, now retired from the FDA, had visited the Houston lab many times over the previous decade for routine inspections. This ...
Family Farmers and Organizations Ask FDA for More Time to Analyze New Food Safety Rules
Joint Letter Says Comment Period Too Short for Complex 1,200-Page Proposal AUSTIN, Texas – Over 270 organizations, food businesses and farms requested an extension today of the comment period for two major proposed food safety rules. The groups seek more time to assess the effects of the 1,200 pages of rules on family farms and small ...
Dairy Industry Tries to Hide Artificial Sweeteners in School Lunches (PETITION)
Aspartame is already allowed in your kids’ milk. Now they want to erase it from the labels. Action Alert! The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) are petitioning the FDA to let them remove any reference to non-nutritive sweeteners, mainly aspartame, from milk labels in school lunches. They claim—in one ...
FDA Now Censoring Consumer Free Speech on the Internet (PETITION)
Or, to be more precise, demanding that supplement companies do it on their orders. Action Alert! The US Food and Drug Administration has recently issued warning letters to two different supplement companies. Here is what triggered one of them: supplement company AMARC Enterprises “liked” a Facebook customer testimonial about how their product helped “keep cancer at ...
Why Do Governments Recommend This Toxic Food Today When They Didn’t Over A Decade Ago?
If we analyze the food guide and government advice on nutrition over a decade ago and compare those advisements to what is recommended today, there is one big difference--one specific food crept up onto the radar of public health officials as if it had some kind of miraculous nutritional benefit for the public. The problem ...
Aspartame-Sweetened Milk On The Verge Of Being Deemed “Safe For Your Children”
As of February 20, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition calling for an amendment to change the standard of identity for milk and 17 other dairy products. In hopes of adding "safe and suitable" ...
Monsanto and The FDA: 2 Crime Families Working a Trillion-Dollar Hustle
Perhaps you remember the ill-fated Just-Label-It campaign. A number of activist groups petitioned the FDA for a federal regulation that would make labeling GMO food mandatory. The petition amassed over a million signatures. But the FDA decided only 394 of these were legitimate, because all the others were electronically submitted in one document. Infuriating? Of course. But ...
Five Ways the FDA Has Failed Consumers on GMOs
1. No health safety testing Genetically engineered (GE) foods have never been safety tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), thanks to a 20-year-old policy that says it’s up to the biotech companies to determine the safety of genetically engineered (GE) foods. So while all other developed countries require safety testing for GE plants, ...
Dead, Lifeless Food
FDA aims to sterilize our food through the Food Safety Modernization Act After two years of delay, the Food Safety Modernization Act is finally about to go into effect. The FDA is moving forward with rules that are supposed to make food in the United States the safest in the world. Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul ...
Beware, There May Be Bacterial Feces In Processed Milk
In this case, it is not human excrement, human tissue or horse DNA, but artificial sweeteners. Back in 2009, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition requesting that the Food and Drug Administration of the United States changed the way in which processed milk ingredients are ...
Action Alert! FDA Again Ignores Instructions from Congress…
And turns a blind eye to allergic reactions from Big Farma’s favorite foods. Action Alert! In 2004 Congress passed the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA), which required that food labels state clearly when any of eight “major food allergens,” are present in the product. These eight foods or food groups are milk, egg, fish ...
FDA: Ban Arsenic in Chicken Feed! (PETITION)
Target: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Sponsored by: Chris Wolverton Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University discovered arsenic in feather meal from poultry raised in U.S. factory farms. Food companies routinely feed arsenic to poultry in order to fight infection and turn their flesh an "appetizing" pink color.In addition to arsenic, scientists found caffeine, ...
The Connection Between Big Food / Big Pharma and Nutrition Policy
I've explored and written on food politics for years, using articles and direct links back to my sources to show evidence that the Big Agra-Big-Food-Big Pharma-Big Government complex is a pernicious corporatocracy with various satellites in place to conduct its dirty work of politicking, plundering, deceptive marketing, and purposefully miseducating the masses. I long ago ...
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