“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only a few short weeks after introducing his so-called “Dietary Supplement Safety Act,” Republican Senator John McCain was already feeling the heat—so much so that, like Custer at the Little Big Horn, he felt compelled to...
The 31st Session of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) met in the Museum Kunst Palast to continue its work in developing standards for global nutrition.
“Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?” —Robert Jordan in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls Imagine that huge, commercialized feed lots, over-crowded with cattle, poultry and other meat are sited close to rivers, streams and other water sources that...
The United States, like Great Britain, is seeing its food laws come under increasing pressure to harmonize and conform to international standards. When I was helping a client with a defense against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a homeopathic-drug product that the FDA was challenging in...
