How fixing food date labels could reduce waste and confusion

Confusion around food date labels leads 88% of consumers to discard food that's still good to eat. Standardizing date labels could lead to lower food waste.

Peter's Memo: Prison food and public harm

Nearly two million people are behind bars in the United States. Do they deserve nutritionally inferior food? Do they deserve inadequate portions of unpalatable, over-or undercooked meals? Do they deserve food that is spoiled, rotten, or contaminated?

CSPI comment to the FTC on food delivery fees

Groups urge Bureau of Prisons not to privatize food service

California lawmakers advance sugar transparency and dietary supplement safety bills

Non-UPF labels: Useful new tool or cause for confusion?

New labels assure you that the product you’re buying is not an ultraprocessed food (UPF). But what does that even mean?

FRESH Act is a shiny apple full of worms

A QR code isn’t transparency: Maryland diners deserve better

The Informed Dining Act would place an easy-to-read symbol next to menu items with more than half a day’s worth of recommended sodium or added sugars.

Substantial improvement in availability of corn tortillas containing folic acid, CSPI analysis finds

FISC: Does ‘a strong FDA’ actually mean ‘weaker states’?

The Food Ingredient Safety Coalition (FISC), a food industry group quietly making the rounds in state legislatures, aims to stop food safety laws in the states.