Food safety
If the FDA doesn’t say they’re safe, ‘they won’t go to market’: What you should know about GMOs and food safety
Glow-in-the-dark mice, silk-producing goats, venomous cabbage — these are all wacky and downright unsettling examples of what can happen when scientists tinker with ...
Space-grown lettuce a hit with astronauts, and nutritionally identical to its earthly counterpart
The astronauts floated around, expressing delight as they tasted something entirely unexpected in space. "Awesome! Tastes good! I like that! ...
Rapid genome sequencing streamlines efforts to safeguard global food supply against salmonella
Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in Beijing, and the University of Georgia have developed a ...
FDA Feed Your Mind project offers ‘science-based’ answers to questions about GMO safety, regulation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a new education initiative called “Feed Your Mind” to help consumers better ...
Bangladesh will mandate GMO labeling to quell consumer ‘distrust’ of crop biotechnology
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) is planning on making declaration of genetically-modified (GM) [crops] in food products mandatory, said its ...
Viewpoint: How the rural-urban divide helps ‘anti-farming groups’ spread myths about agriculture
Farmers are arguably the best environmental stewards we have in our economy .... With livestock, it makes little sense to ...
Podcast: ‘There’s no safe level of pesticides’? ‘Don’t eat what you can’t pronounce’? Food Science Babe takes on popular nutrition tropes
“Don’t eat what you can’t pronounce… Synthetic chemicals are more dangerous than natural chemicals… Chemicals in food are killing us… ...
Podcast: How food bullying spreads unjustified fears about GMOs, animal welfare and food safety
We've heard a lot in recent years about the harmful impacts of bullying, especially cyber-bullying aimed at children. But rarely ...
Monsanto’s GMO soybean as safe as conventional counterpart, EU Food Safety Authority confirms
Following the submission of application .... from Monsanto (hereafter referred to as ‘the applicant’), the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms ...
Foodborne illnesses strike almost 48 million Americans annually. Do we need better food safety testing?
In the U.S. alone, there are an estimated 47.8 million illnesses, more than 127,000 hospitalizations and 3,000-plus deaths attributed to ...
Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits
Once again, evidence that our food supply is safe and incredibly diverse ...
What’s xanthan gum? A closer look at that ‘unpronounceable additive’ in so many processed foods
Many people have spied the words “xanthan gum” on the list of ingredients on the back of a food box, ...
Viewpoint: Eat 1,500 strawberries in one sitting—and pesticides still won’t harm you
Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about pesticides? A: Pesticides are extremely dangerous to humans. B: ...
Skeptical about GMO food safety?
Scientists can do some amazing things with genes, from saving papayas from extinction, to making apples last longer before turning ...
90% of Europeans fear biotech crops? New survey busts the popular anti-GMO myth
A special Eurobarometer survey report on food safety was published [in June]. It shows once again that the regularly promoted ...
Organic produce consumption lowers pregnant women’s exposure to some pesticides, small study suggests
Organic versus conventional foods: are they really better for people’s health? Are all organic foods created equal, and if not, ...
Washington Post dietitian: Environmental Working Group, activists irresponsibly fan fears by citing ‘scary-sounding’ but harmless chemicals in food
Would you worry if you knew your food contained sucrose octanoate esters or tocopherols? They might sound frightening, but don’t ...
Video: How we fool ourselves into fearing our food—and how to stop
Pesticides, chemicals, cancer - the world is a scary place and our dinner plate even more so. Or so it ...
Video: Are biotech crops safe? A brief history of the GMO debate
Recent studies show the general public and the scientific community are deeply divided on the perceived safety of GMOs. Ars ...
Audio: New FDA pesticide residue study confirms America’s food supply is safe
The FDA recently released its annual Pesticide Residue Report. As pesticides are one of the things people worry most about, I ...
Rejecting GMO crops is a risky decision, experts say
Every new or improved technology, regardless of its particular field or application, can involve risk, potential risk, or perception of ...
Public sorting through what labels shoppers want on sustainable, lab grown meat, Consumer Reports finds
Consumer Reports, published by the 7 million-member nonprofit Consumers Union, [recently] reported on survey results showing the public expects laboratory-produced ...
Viewpoint: How the Environmental Working Group and ‘Big Organic’ manipulate pesticide data to scare people
Consumers have a legitimate desire for transparency when it comes to their food - particularly when it comes to the ...
‘Substantial equivalence’: Are GMOs as safe as other conventional and organic foods?
GMO critics claim that US regulations rely too much on the concept of “substantial equivalence” when evaluating if food is ...
