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…
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…
Baby food sold in California just got a lot cleaner. California Assembly Bill AB 899 will now require that baby food manufacturers regularly test their products for specific toxic elements (e.g., arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury) and to disclose the levels of those elements to consumers on brand websites. Further, dietary supplements marketed to children aged two and under fall…
Open your mind to new possibilities and maybe change the way you approach health treatments – both natural and conventional. That’s the main request of Benton Bramwell, ND and Ridgecrest Herbals’ CEO, W. Matthew Warnock, JD in their new book, Rethinking Medicine: Harmonizing Science and Herbal Tradition. From the Beginning The book begins with personal stories of the authors’ winding…
This month, Japan revived efforts to collect samples of melted fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant using a robot. In March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear plant’s cooling systems to fail, leaving behind fuel debris and other radioactivate contaminants. This latest attempt to collect and study a fuel sample from the site…
On Monday, July 15, 2024, our partners at Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network, will assemble a panel of experts, including Citizens for Health’s President and Senior Policy Advisor, James Gormely to brief Congress about the ongoing problem of radioactive contamination of our food and water and what steps our legislators can take to mitigate contamination. Join us for an online briefing…
2023 was not a sweet year for the artificial sweetener industry. In May the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that artificial sweeteners (what it calls non-sugar sweeteners, or NSS) do not “confer any long-term benefit” in weight loss. Even more alarming, the WHO says that using NSS over time may produce “undesirable effects” such as upping the risk of type…
By Linda Bonvie The glutamate industry has been trying for a very long time to promote MSG and other free glutamate-containing additives* as “good for you” ways to reduce sodium. Now, with a helping hand from their friends at the FDA, these brain-damaging additives will be used in even greater quantities and in foods where you might not expect to find…
