HEALTH
Why The FDA Should Be Charged With Murder
By: Jon Rappoport If you worked for a federal agency that was killing people at the rate of 100,000 a year, every year, like clockwork, and if you knew it, wouldn’t you feel compelled to […]
Food and Drug Administration
HEALTH
Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approval
Two powerful dairy organizations, The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), are petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to be added to milk […]
HEALTH
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 […]
ENVIRONMENT
How Corporations Engineered the Non-Regulation of Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Government officials around the globe have been coerced, infiltrated, and paid off by the agricultural biotech giants. In Indonesia, Monsanto gave bribes and questionable payments to at least 140 officials, attempting to get their genetically […]
HEALTH
The Revolving Door: FDA and the Monsanto Company
According to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), its responsibilities include “[p]rotecting the public health by assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled.” This responsibility entails regulating a large number […]
HEALTH
Study Finds 80% of All Antibiotics in US Used for Big-Ag
In 2011, more antibiotics were sold for use in meat and poultry production than ever before—at least four-fifths of all antibiotics used in the US—accordingto a new report by Pew Charitable Trusts. The report, which […]
ENVIRONMENT
The FDA Forbids Labelling Non-GM Salmon
When the FDA approves genetically modified salmon, you would think that it would, at least, be possible to avoid it. Certainly, any producer of non-GM salmon would be sure to label it, since the vast […]
HEALTH
The Shocking Story of How Aspartame Became Legal
By: Joe Martino Did you know that Aspartame was banned by the FDA twice? How is this product legal now? The bittersweet argument over whether Aspartame is safe or not has been going on for a long time. […]
HEALTH
FDA Petitioned to Lower Ractopamine Limits for Meat, Review Health Impacts
Animal rights and food safety groups are petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately lower the allowed residue limits for ractopamine — a controversial drug used to boost growth and leanness in meat […]
HEALTH
Regulators Approve New Insect-Based Flu Vaccine
(CNN) — As flu season rages across the United States, federal regulators say they have approved a new kind of vaccine for the virus. The new product, Flublok, which is available in limited supplies for […]