A plate of tomato and pepper stew a la FDA, hold the credibility [updated]
Seeing through the FDA is not the same as transparency.Posted on July 30, 2008 7:54 AM • 6 Comments •
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The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
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FDA:
Produce industry and Bush administration's short sighted and costly mistake
Hoist on their own petard, with help from the Bush administration.Posted on July 26, 2008 7:26 AM • 8 Comments •
Salmonella outbreak developments
A little progress sounds pretty good when there's been no progress until now.Posted on July 22, 2008 7:26 AM • 7 Comments •
Spoiling the tomato barrel
One rotten tomato can spoil the whole industry.Posted on July 20, 2008 3:28 PM • 14 Comments •
"One donut, decaf, no glaze, no powdered sugar"
Filling the hole in the donut -- with caffeinePosted on July 19, 2008 7:50 AM • 13 Comments •
Food safety proposal: throw the bums out
Keystone cops tomato caper.Posted on July 1, 2008 7:49 AM • 27 Comments •
Benzene in soda: update
New and improved. Less carcinogen.Posted on April 29, 2008 7:18 AM • 7 Comments •
Manufacturing chemicals, manufacturing doubt
A new book with sordid details on the manipulation of science and a current example of the same.Posted on April 28, 2008 7:13 AM • 15 Comments •
FDA investigates Kinoki Foot Pads. What took them so long?
Detoxify you brain. Don't watch this infomercial.Posted on April 16, 2008 4:47 PM • 5 Comments •
Opening up vaccine policy and research
Letting other voices be heard.Posted on April 15, 2008 3:38 PM • 9 Comments •
FDA speaks up a little more often
Warning: FDA is warning us.Posted on February 27, 2008 3:55 PM • 5 Comments •
Warning: contains FDA approved drug
Baxter's bad blood thinner.Posted on February 20, 2008 4:13 PM • 13 Comments •
Criminal indictments in melamine-in-pet food scandal
Poisoning pets for profit.Posted on February 7, 2008 4:45 PM • 4 Comments •
Bush responds to my plea to shore up the infrastructure
The slasher is a serial killer.Posted on February 3, 2008 3:14 PM • 37 Comments •
New test approved for influenza like illnesses
Testing for a dozen different viruses at once.Posted on January 9, 2008 7:08 AM • 3 Comments •
Food labels: the font of all knowledge can be pretty small
There's a lot of stuff about tainted food in the news, whether it is toxins in imports or questionable additives in US products (e.g., bisphenol A in hard plastics). This stuff is not on any food label, of course, but...Posted on December 26, 2007 4:14 PM • 9 Comments •
Puffer fish: your last meal?
Puffer fish are notorious. Considerable delicacy in Japan (a taste adopted by some non-Japanese Foodies), they come with a side of risk: some puffer fish have the potent lethal toxins tetrodotoxin and/or saxitoxin, neurotoxins more than 1000 times the lethal...Posted on October 27, 2007 7:30 AM • 10 Comments •
Fixing a broken FDA
Congress has a chance to make FDA better. Will they muff it?Posted on August 2, 2007 7:18 AM • 2 Comments •
