The food industry-led “Smart Choices” program has ended, as it should.
The effort launched in August as an attempt by companies to avoid additional federally mandated nutritional standards.
Participating manufacturers included a green label on package fronts to easily denote healthy food choices for consumers.
Cereals such as Froot Loops, with sugar listed as the No. 1 ingredient, received the green check. Cocoa Puffs, Cocoa Krispies and other sugar-laden cereals also received the label, alongside foods such as Country Crock spread, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and many others.
Participating companies included Kellogg’s, Kraft Foods, …

Monsanto, the company which spent an astounding eight million dollars last year on lobbying, is planning to flood the food market with poor quality omega 3 oils from its genetically modified (GM) soy beans.
Monsanto, which is trying to control the world’s farming market and infect nature with its genetically modified seeds, plans to sell its omega 3 frankenfood to processed food companies. The food companies will then claim that their frozen dinners and microwave meals are healthy because they contain omega 3 oils.
Yet you can bet your bottom dollar that …

FDA: Procter & Gamble Unlawfully Marketing Two Vicks Cold and Flu Medicines
Containing Vitamin C
SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration today sent a warning letter to Procter & Gamble notifying the
company that its Vicks DayQuil Plus Vitamin C and Vicks Nyquil Plus Vitamin C
are illegally marketed combinations of drug ingredients and a dietary
ingredient.
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Both of the over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, which contain vitamin C in
addition to several drug ingredients, are marketed as treatments for cold and
flu symptoms. The FDA took the action against the Cincinnati-based …

Ohio State University food science researcher V.M. “Bala” Balasubramaniam isn’t feeling pressure to perform. He’s using pressure.
The associate professor of food science and technology studies how high-pressure food processing can be used and refined to preserve low-acid foods, allowing them to stay fresh for extensive periods while inactivating the bacteria and other pathogens that would otherwise make them unsafe.
Balasubramaniam, who also has appointments with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and Ohio State University Extension, and his research associate Jeremy Somerville just published an article on their work, “Pressure-Assisted …

Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson needs to ensure a comprehensive review of the labelling of genetically engineered (GE) food ingredients and GE food safety in New Zealand, now that 40 different GE food applications have been approved for use in New Zealand, including foods derived from 61 GE plant lines, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand.
ShareSoil & Health says the latest approvals have gone through despite an increase in evidence of the health risks from GE food. GE plant lines approved include canola, corn, potato, cotton, …