Food safety in the United States: Research roundup
…of the nation’s first food safety legislation. More than a century later, the United States has made considerable progress on food safety, but foodborne illness remains a serious public health…
…of the nation’s first food safety legislation. More than a century later, the United States has made considerable progress on food safety, but foodborne illness remains a serious public health…
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…they experienced food insecurity, or challenges accessing and paying for food, within the previous 12 months. Other resources for journalists: The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides various reports on food…
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…finds no relationship between greater access to healthy food and improved diet or decreased BMIs among California youth. Keywords: junk food, urban health, healthy food, food supply, food access…
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…found that organic foods are not typically more nutritious than conventional foods, while a 2012 meta-analysis in Nature, “Comparing the Yields of Organic and Conventional Agriculture,” found that — depending…
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…ate less fast food and takeout food. Male participants, but not female participants, who had family dinners more often had a lower intake of sugar-sweetened beverages. Though the effects on…
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…neighborhoods — often minorities — have little choice but to buy food at convenience stores or eat at fast-food restaurants, with predictably dire health consequences. But the results of some…
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…Americans’ food-consumption patterns. The study focused on the USDA’s 2005 guidelines, which — rather than talking about broad categories of food types — gave a specific dietary target: Whole grains…
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…through substitution effects within a household’s expenditures. The hypothesis that households with at least one smoker would allocate some funds toward cigarettes rather than food was tested by Tufts University…
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…the developing brains of fetuses and children who eat food from plants treated with the compound. In the last few years of the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency had moved toward…
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…food ad every 5 minutes. 95% of foods commonly advertised on television are of poor nutritional value. The researchers state that the increased obesity of children watching such programs “probably…
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