The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted GRAS approval for a natural, zero-calorie sweetener it once sought to wipe out from the U.S. marketplace. Following political pressure from powerful consumer product corporations (Coca-Cola and Pepsi, prim

Sixteen thousand children in seven African countries are due to undergo final-stage tests of a potential malaria vaccine early next year after research showed it halves the risk of malaria among infants and children in Kenya and Tanzania.

In a truly astonishing betrayal of public safety (even for the FDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today revoked its warning about mercury in fish, saying that eating mercury-contaminated fish no longer poses any health threat to children, pregnan

An important action step parents can take to counter the media marketing of unhealthy foods directed towards children is to make your voices heard directly to the people in charge of making the media marketing decisions. The Center for Scienc

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) welcomes the USDA's publication of the long overdue Proposed Organic Pasture Rule that holds organic livestock producers accountable to the high standards that consumers expect for products labeled as certified organic. I

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Please sign your name to our alternative rule petition below. Since our alternative rule is a petition, it cannot be edited or customized. The Organic Consumers Association will hand deliver this petition to the USDA on December 22nd.

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For the first time, the FDA has issued a warning that the mercury contained in silver dental fillings may pose neurological risks to children and pregnant women...Care2 readers, did you EVER think you would see this day?

Electronic patient records legislation that will convert our health records from paper to data in electronic systems will put our personal medical records at risk of becoming a commodity that businesses can sell or trade. Even Microsoft promi