The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. HEALTH & SAFETY

The Food and Drug Administration announces new guidelines for prescription drug labels.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on why the current labels are often incomprehensible and unwieldy.

2. LEGAL

Two activist groups sue Viacom and cereal-maker Kellogg Co. for advertising the food company’s products to children on the cable TV channel Nickelodeon.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: General Counsel Sam Kazman on the threats to personal responsibility and consumer choice from ‘junk food’ lawsuits.

3. ENERGY

High energy prices fuel rising inflation.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Director of Global Warming Policy Myron Ebell on the need to develop domestic sources of oil and natural gas.

4. POLITICS

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown accepts a greater share of blame for the pace of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

 CEI Expert Available for Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. on the changes New Orleans will need to make in order to rebuild and recover.

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