U.S. consumers spent $739 million on fish and animal oil supplements in 2008, making it the eighth most popular dietary supplement on Nutrition Business Journal’s list of the top 100 selling supplements in the United States. Since most fish are already contaminated with PCB’s, consumers need to know what the toxic levels are to make an informed decision versus the overwhelming scientific evidence in support of fish oil [...]
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A dash of ‘truth in labeling’ is called for. It’s tempting to imagine a label that identifies heavily enhanced chicken as “chicken-like product, with X% real chicken.” At the very least, enhanced meats should be conspicuously labeled as such, and the list of added ingredients should appear in larger type. Shoppers should know at a glance what they’re really [...] Scientists corroborated the decade-long criticism by public interest organizations such as the Organic Consumers Association, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, that unreliable tests have been used to assess the safety of food and products containing genetically modified organisms [...] What you don’t know you don’t know about our food supply could hurt you. [...] Nothing like a little bit of a banned substance to garner some attention in a weak economy. [...] |
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