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...sounds of this cacophony of false claims. The Food and Drug Administration virtually invited abuse by lifting its own long-standing ban against health promotions on food labels. But the deregulatory winds have shifted, and the sleeping sentry has awakened. In a blaze of whistle blowing, the FDA, headed by tough new commissioner David Kessler, is cracking down. The agency has begun seizing products with misleading labels, developing new guidelines for nutritional information and exposing hollow health claims...
Already Kessler has fired several salvos at deceivers. First hit was Procter & Gamble. The conglomerate had received numerous letters from the FDA complaining about the labeling of its Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice, which is made from concentrate. In April, Kessler instructed his inspectors to publicly seize 2,000 cases of the juice. Two days and many headlines later, the company, based in Cincinnati, agreed to remove the term fresh from its label. Soon after, executives at Ragu Foods of Trumbull, Conn., consented to drop the offending word from their Ragu Fresh Italian pasta sauces, which, like many other...
Still waiting for the FDA's approval: Kraft General Foods' Trailblazer for frozen desserts and Procter & Gamble's Olestra for fat-free deep frying...
...Cross announcement followed by days word that the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are tracking down recipients of organs and tissues taken from a Virginia man infected with the AIDS virus who was killed during a robbery in 1985. His organs and tissues, which had tested negative for the virus, were distributed among 56 patients in 16 states. Six of them have tested positive...
HEALTH Food and drug companies beware: the FDA is on the prowl...