While producers of sugar cane celebrated National Real Sugar Day on October 14, the New York City Council voted to require chain restaurants to post warning labels on sodas and other menu items t...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2023/11/an-update-on-sugar-just-in-time-for-thanksgiving/
One of the great tragedies of the Trump Administration was its attempt to thoroughly destroy the Economic Research Service by moving it out of Washington DC to Kansas City, Kansas. I wrote about ...
The Government Accountability Office has produced a “snapshot” on Healthy Eating: Government-wide solutions for promoting healthy diets, food safety, and food security. It’s only two page...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2022/08/weekend-reading-gaos-big-picture-on-healthy-eating/
The Government Accountability Office has just issued this report: Evidence-Based Policy Making: USDA’s Decision to Relocate Research Agencies to Kansas City Was Not Fully Consistent with an ...
Chronic (“noncommunicable”) diseases—heart disease, cancer, and diabetes—account for half of annual deaths in the United States at enormous physical and economic cost to individuals and t...
Food safety seems very much on the agenda this week. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its latest biennial High Risk list of programs “vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, a...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/03/gaos-40-year-plea-for-better-oversight-of-food-safety/
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has a new report out calling for better federal oversight of memory supplements. These are a growing market with sales estimated at $643 million in 2015...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/07/do-memory-supplements-help-boost-memory-oh-how-i-wish/
Q The post USDA issues rules for competitive school foods. Yes! appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle .
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/07/usda-issues-rules-for-competitive-school-foods-yes/
The Government Accountability Office is complaining again about the inadequacies of the American food safety system, and with good reason. Its 2012 Annual Report, Opportunities to Reduce Duplicat...
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2012/05/gao-says-u-s-food-safety-system-needs-work-resources/
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows. The American Enterprise Institute, a conservative (to say the least) think tank, has just issued a report on reforming the farm bill to ensure a ...