Merging grocery giants threaten Americans’ food security

Here’s what you should know about grocery store mergers and acquisitions: Fewer grocery stores, higher food prices, and lost jobs.

Sesame allergy: Food manufacturing shortcut creates new risks

Kellogg: Marketing to kids

Demand letter led to Kellogg agreeing to adopt minimum nutrition standards for marketing to children.

City of Davis, CA, takes soda off kids' menus

Parents in Davis, California, should be pleased and proud that the city council has passed an ordinance making milk or water, and not soda, the default beverages for meals intended for young children.

CSPI hits marketing junk food to kids

Stop Undermining Children’s Health Act

A fact sheet displaying CSPI and other organizations efforts to eliminate the tax deductibility of advertising/marketing of unhealthy foods/beverages to children.

Letter to CARU re: Kraft Heinz TV advertisements

This letter from CSPI to BBB National Programs' Children's Advertising Review Unit describes the context of a complaint filed against Kraft Heinz. On numerous occasions in late 2019, Kraft Heinz ran an advertisement for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese during children’s programming on networks such as Cartoon Network, Disney XD, and Nickelodeon in which it disparaged healthy foods, a longstanding feature of advertisements from Kraft Heinz. These ads are a violation of CARU’s guidelines on product presentations and disparagement. CSPI asks that CARU review Kraft Heinz’s advertising practices and work with the company to align their advertisements with CARU guidelines.

CSPI urges Kraft Heinz to end disparagement of healthy food in advertising

Kraft Heinz is disparaging healthy foods like broccoli, salmon, and tofu in advertising for its Kraft Macaroni & Cheese and other products—and it has done so on children’s television programming, according to a complaint filed today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest with BBB National Programs' Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU).

FDA urged to crack down on Vizzy hard seltzer claims

USDA to improve misleading processed meat labels

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a letter released yesterday that it will stop requiring the terms “Uncured” and “No Nitrate or Nitrite Added” on labels for meat processed with nitrates or nitrites from non-synthetic sources, such as celery powder.