This year, state and federal legislators took a much-needed deeper look at food safety. For consumers, this wave of newly proposed legislation signals a major cultural and regulatory shift: food safety is no longer just about bacteria or contamination — it’s about the chemicals and colors hidden in everyday products. While businesses may face reformulation costs, the consumer payoff is…
Synthetic food dyes — many of them petroleum-based — have long been linked to health concerns ranging from behavioral issues in children to cancer risks. Yet they remain available to be legally included in the U.S. food supply. That’s why the introduction of Rep. Grace Meng’s Ban Harmful Food Dyes Act takes a bold step toward cleaner, safer food. This…
If you care deeply about what goes into the bodies of our children, the newly proposed Safe Baby Formula Act, S. 2371, deserves your full attention. Introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and supported by a growing list of advocates in Congress, the Safe Baby Formula Act aims to ensure the safety of infant formula by regulating toxic metals. It…
Two members of Congress have reintroduced the Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2025 (H.R. 4306) that would ensure chemicals introduced into our food supply years ago are still safe today. H.R. 4306 would require the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation to ensure chemicals that entered the food supply chain through self-reporting or…
Recently introduced legislation known as the SAFE FOOD Act or the Study And Framework for Efficiency in Food Oversight and Organizational Design Act of 2025 directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study the consolidation of multiple federal food safety agencies into a single entity. The bill’s goal is to streamline food safety oversight and enhance public health protection through…
After the Food and Drug Administration recently announced sweeping recommendations to eliminate potentially toxic chemicals from our food supply, we’re left wondering if the efforts are real or just more talk by a government plagued by a track record of failing to protect our health. Big pronouncements In April, the new FDA Commissioner, Dr. Martin Makary, confirmed something that many…
In a recent letter to the Food and Drug Administration, Citizens for Health (CFH) and Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network (FFAN) strongly urged the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the real possibility of radioactivity in U.S. food as part of the federal government’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda given that radiation from nuclear accidents bioaccumulates in food and there are…
Earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration pledged to say goodbye to Red dye No. 3. Up next could be other synthetic food colorings used to enhance the color in everyday foods like candy and cereals. “FDA promised to remove Red dye No. 3 from foods long after a significant body of evidence exposed the link between the colorant…
In a striking turnaround, the Department of Justice recently asked the United States District Court of Utah to dismiss the FTC’s case against Xlear, Inc. and its CEO Nathan Jones, bringing closure to a nearly four-year battle. On March 10, 2025, the DOJ and Xlear filed a stipulation to dismiss the case with prejudice. READ MORE: CFH and National Health…
In 2019, then top-tier ad agency Leo Burnett produced a Cheez-It commercial for its client Kellogg’s called “Taste Test,” revealing much more about the product than intended. The 15-second spot shows a group of hysterical tasters who, once they bite into the Cheez-It crackers, can’t stop and continue to compulsively eat them. “What have we done,” asks the crazed-looking scientist in the…
After ignoring legislative directives and a deep well of scientific data over the last 33 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has belatedly banned the continued use of Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C) red dye no. 3 in food, including dietary supplements (effective January 15, 2027) and ingested drugs (effective January 18, 2028). This action comes more than…
MSG or monosodium glutamate — a near ubiquitous food additive used to enhance flavors in food — seems to have gotten the entire mainstream-media industry under its spell. This past spring, I received an email from a writer by the name of Clarissa Wei. She wrote: “I’m a freelance journalist currently working on a story about the history of MSG…