“Judging from this show you’d think the whole world had celiac disease,” said Jennifer Lea Cohan, a publicist who works with the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, which runs the show. Some examples: Famous Organics falafel chips; Mediterranean snacks gluten-free baked lentil chips; Zocolo’s line of “heritage” flours from quinoa, mesquite and amaranth; and [...]
A leading environmental group filed a court challenge today to the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of bisphenol A, aiming to force the agency to act on a 20-month-old request to bar the controversial chemical from food packaging. The lawsuit, filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling for more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs in the production of animals that end up on our dinner tables. The goal is preventing drug resistance both in animals and in humans. Antimicrobial drugs have been widely used for more than 50 years, benefiting both human and animal [...]
