Food Safety

The Five Dumbest Product Bans

Eli Lehrer — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:00 -0800

This paper focuses on five clearly absurd product bans that seem to serve no social good.

Activists Hit the (Plastic) Bottle Again

Steven J. Milloy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:54:45 -0700

Anti-chemical activists opened a new front in their jihad against the plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) this week.

Food Safety FAQ

Ryan Lynch — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Junk Science: Schumer Chucks the FDA?

Steven J. Milloy — Thu, 8 May 2008 12:26:28 -0700

Who needs the Food and Drug Administration? New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and personal injury lawyers certainly don’t — at least to the extent that the agency gets in the way of their political grandstanding and a multimillion-dollar payday, respectively.

Where's the Beef?

Gregory Conko — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:00:00 -0800

It's not often that American food companies join hands with environmental and consumer activists to call for greater government control over the nation's food supply. But that's just what happened last week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs, and goats are safe for consumers.

FDA Gives a Thumbs Up to Cloned Milk and Meat

CEI Staff — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:00:00 -0800

New Video: Cheers to Repeal Day!

CEI Staff — Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Washington, D.C., December 4, 2007—The Bureaucrash Activist Network is releasing a new video just in time to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, and the observance of Repeal Day nationwide on December 5^th. The video dramatizes the truth that while prohibition of alcohol may be a thing of the past, the finger-wagging mentality of government bureaucrats has changed very little.