Food safety

Assessing the Full Cost of CAFOs

What do the worldwide epidemics of the new swine flu and MRSA have in common? Both are connected to swine. And for years public health leaders have been calling for changes to animal agriculture that could help prevent them.

Group Letter to FDA Requesting Immediate Action on Cephalosporins

Group letter to the FDA requesting asking immediate action addressing the risks to human and animal health resulting from the inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs in food producing animals by:         1) Making a final decision against the approval of cefquinome for use in food-producing animals,

Comments on "Assessment of Test Results for Mercury in HFCS"

This comment is a joint response to Duke University Medical Center's Dr. Woodhall Stopford's findings after he was commissioned to review the results of analytical testing of HFCS samples for mercury and found "no quantifiable mercury". Dr, Woodhall was the only reviewer, there was no peer review process and he was paid by the Corn Refiners Association. Dr.

Saving Antibiotics

You may have read New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's frightening story about small-town doctor Tom Anderson and his subsequent column on the connection between confined, industrial hog farming and the presence of methicill

Long delayed, but welcome leadership on BPA in baby bottles.

Well, at least someone’s showing leadership around bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial chemical that's made into polycarbonate plastic as well as for resin liners of food an

Step Right Up! China Passes Food Safety Law

High Fructose Corn Syrup Redux

A few weeks ago we published research on the presence of mercury in many common food products that list high fructose corn syrup as their first or second ingredient.

Smart Guide to Food Dyes: Buying Foods That Can Help Learning

Consumers are surrounded with candies and processed foods containing synthetic food dyes. Increasingly, these dyes have been found to increase hyperactivity and other disturbed behavior in children. These synthetic dyes, mostly petroleum-derived, are unnecessary.

Letter to the Obama Administration: Legally binding treaty to reduce mercury exposure

Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin that can make its way up the food chain into humans, and poses an increased exposure risk to developing fetuses and young children, causing permanent learning disabilities. IATP was one of over 90 U.S. and international organizations sending this letter last week to President Obama asking for U.S.

Smart Guide to Minnesota Dairy Without rBGH

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) was one of the first genetically engineered agriculture products and is a synthetic hormone given to dairy cows to force increased milk production. It can also cause udder infections leading to increased antibiotic use. rBGH also raises the levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) in cows and cow's milk.