by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World When is a salmon not a salmon? It sounds ridiculous, but that’s one of the most important issues in the food world, where the gloves are off in the fight about genetically engineered foods. Genetically engineered or modified foods—known as GE foods or GMOs—have been unnaturally altered at the molecular level. The DNA from different sources or even different species are combined together to create a new set of ... continue reading...
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Food Issues: Corn vs. Sugar Smackdown
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff CEO/Executive Director, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Many of us at Healthy Child Healthy World [www.healthychild.org] are a wee bit obsessed with Citizens For Health’s new FoodIdentityTheft.com website. How could you not be riveted to breaking food industry news? (Okay, we’re food geeks.) Anyhoo, last week the site reported that the Corn Refiners Association—a high fructose corn syrup manufacturers industry group—has petitioned the FDA for a ... continue reading...
Cleaning Out Your Pantry: Food Additives
I thought I’d seen it all when I was cruising the yogurt section of my supermarket and spotted blue, cotton-candy flavored yogurt for kids. Manufacturers are all too aware that children are compulsively drawn to Technicolor food and those that are sweet or salty. Since getting kids to eat well is an exercise in triage as you figure the pros and cons of cost, time, and availability you might be tempted to take the path of least resistance: chicken nuggets, flame colored mac ‘n’ cheese, blue ... continue reading...
Genetically Engineered Animals and Your Family’s Diet
The same government agency that has failed to protect us from salmonella in peanut butter, BPA leaching into our children's foods and beverages, melamine in formula, among other health dangers, will soon be allowing the by-products of genetically engineered animals to reach our grocery stores. In January 2009, the FDA released the "Guidance for Industry #187", which provides regulation guidelines that pertain to genetically engineered animals containing heritable recombinant DNA ... continue reading...
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