Word: fda
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While scoring food producers-who will present their case to the committee this week-Nader was no less gentle with regulatory agencies. Acknowledging the FDA's manpower and budgetary problems, he criticized its failure to conduct its own research or release results. Charging that the Agriculture Department is more industry-than consumer-oriented, he said that its inspection practices were characterized by "widespread complicity, incompetence and demoralization among the inspector corps...
...also in trouble within the states. Arizona has already banned DDT spraying. Michigan recently imposed a similar ban after the FDA condemned some 700,000 coho salmon from Lake Michigan because they had unacceptably high concentrations of DDT. Stringent controls are now being considered in the states of Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin...
Until the Government can refute the claim that Scientology is a religion, said the court, the E-meters and their accompanying leaflets are protected from seizure by the right of freedom of worship-which puts them beyond the reach of the FDA...
...average man tell how much polyunsaturated fat he is getting? That is difficult, says Furman, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has forbidden food manufacturers to state the polyunsaturated fat content on the labels of their cooking oils and margarines. The FDA contends that such a statement is meant as a health claim, and would be so regarded by consumers. The ban, says Furman, denies the buyer information to which he is entitled...
...Jeremiah Stamler has chided Kannel for lack of faith in the American public, but Stamler also believes that something should be done at the Governmental level. "We didn't just ask people to use sterilized water," he points out. "We cleaned it up for them." If the FDA would lift what Stamler calls its "ridiculous restrictions" on labeling, he believes, food processors would soon be making polyunsaturated foods-even hot dogs-to meet public demand...