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Mercury Pollution and Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF Health issues related to methylmercury in fish—which are discussed…
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Methylmercury Science
Full Document Available in PDF During the past few years, environmental activists, public health…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation
Full Document Available in PDF For conventionally bred plants, regulators rely on plant breeders to…
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Agricultural Biotechnology Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Every year, millions of people worldwide die from starvation and…
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Four Loko: Just How Potent is the Caffeinated Alcoholic Drink?
Over the past few days, I’ve gotten plenty of angry e-mail from people critical of my defense of caffeinated alcoholic beverages…
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‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
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Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
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‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
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FDA Criticized for Ban on Alcoholic Energy Drinks
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Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
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FDA criticized for banning alcoholic energy drinks
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Agencies target ‘blackout in a can’
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Greg Conko on “Frankenfish”
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the benefits and safety of genetically engineered foods. Humans have altered the genetic material of their food…
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Four Loko Crackdown: FDA Set to Ban Caffeinated-Alcohol Drinks
It looks as though the FDA is now set to ban the small but growing market for so-called alcohol-energy drinks, such as Four Loko and…
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USDA’s System Invites Lawsuits, Researchers Say
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USDA Puts Fox in Charge of Guarding the Hen House
A proposed new rule from the USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration is one more example of obscure regulatory agencies run amok. What makes…
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Sen. Grassley’s Selective Crusade Against Conflicts of Interest
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.) has been on a tear lately, badgering the Food and Drug Administration about whether it's doing enough to crack down on…
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Medical Trial and Error
The Atlantic has an interesting profile of medical researcher John Ioannidis, who famously concluded in a groundbreaking 2005 study that the scientific conclusions of most…
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FDA: Genetically Modified Salmon Are Safe for Consumption, Environment
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USA – The billion dollar drug lobby in overdrive
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Call Made for Continued Use of Antibiotics
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CEI Backs Judicious Antimicrobial Use in Livestock
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Antibiotics and Meat DO Mix
Whether you’re talking about human or animal use, banning beneficial uses today can have negative impacts on human and animal health just as surely as…
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CEI Comments regarding FDA’s Draft Guidance on the Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals
Executive Summary The Competitive Enterprise Institute respectfully submits these comments on the agency’s Draft Guidance on The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial…
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Greg Conko on Salmonella and Eggs
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Gregory Conko discusses the concern over salmonella and eggs. He explains why people do not need to panic.
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Biotech Beets Banned
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Biotech Beets Banned
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Too safe for our own good?
Myths about the risks of various products and activities can themselves be harmful to your health. They include the belief that greater regulation is synonymous…
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U.S. Tech Firms’ China Presence Furthers Internet Freedom
On July 9, China renewed Google's license to operate in that country, leading critics to condemn the firm for acceding to China's oppressive policies. But…
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Off Target On Off-Label Drugs
Americans are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their government, according to opinion polls released in April by the Pew Research Center. The center’s president, Andrew…
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CEI Comments on EPA Biopesticides Registration for Biotech Plum
Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) appreciates…
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Earth Day Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification
What’s the most sustainable way to grow the food we eat? The answer environmentalists give is always "local and organic." But, increasingly, the answer from…
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The FDA Should Get Real
What happens when one of the most powerful regulatory bodies in the country orders a business to violate the agency’s own rules? If they…
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Food Fight Over a Living Relic of the Past
There’s an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on a big new…
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Green Thumbs and GMOs
A friend just recommended this op-ed published in the Boston Globe on Sunday. The title and subtitle say it all: "Green Thumbs: Genetically engineered crops…
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Truth or Consequences
The Benefits of Off-Label Drug and Device Promotion…
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How Can Obamacare Be Truly Fixed?
President Obama may have added his signature to the health care legislation last week, but Republican leaders have decided they won’t go gently into…
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Barack Obama and Liberal “Good” vs. Freedom
There's a great op-ed by Shelby Steele in today's Wall Street Journal, called "Barack the Good". In it, Steele argues that "today's liberalism is focused…
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Gene Patents Ruled Invalid
In a pretty remarkable move, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York yesterday held that genes can not be patented…
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Health Care Crisis About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
In just a few hours, the House of Representatives will vote on the $940 billion Senate health care bill, followed by a reconciliation package of…
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Is There No Adult Supervision at the Campaign for Liberty?
My colleagues brought to my attention this grossly misinformed, misleading, and error-laden essay on the Campaign for Liberty’s website. The main thrust of the piece…
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Killing Health Care Competition With Antitrust
Comprehensive health reform now seems dead. But at a press conference last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would pursue easier-to-pass incremental…
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Use of Genetically Modified Alfalfa Unnecessarily Held Hostage
What’s the most sustainable way to grow the food we eat? If you think the answer is always local and organic, you may be…
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Killing Health Care Competition with Antitrust
Comprehensive health reform now seems dead. But at a press conference last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Democrats would pursue easier-to-pass incremental…
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Christmas Comes Early for the Big Drug Companies
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Congressional Misdiagnosis
Why Repealing McCarran-Ferguson Will Harm Competition in Health Insurance Markets…
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Insurance Industry Stung By Health Care Deal
The CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal whining that a weak individual purchase mandate is…
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Eliminating Antitrust Exemption Will Kill Health Care Competition
If the insurance industry thought its early support for health care reform would earn it some points with Democrats, it recently got a rude…
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Premiums to Skyrocket Under ObamaCare
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“Cities are probably the greenest thing that humans do.”
Environmental guru and author of the Whole Earth Catalog Stewart Brand has a new book out in which he argues that "My fellow environmentalists have…