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...bill directs the Food and Drug Administration to draft standard definitions of such terms as light, low fat, reduced calories and high fiber, which are routinely bandied about on everything from cereal boxes to mayonnaise jars and tortilla-chips packages. The FDA will allow health claims only in areas where scientifically valid links between diet and health have been established. About 60% of the roughly 20,000 food labels in supermarkets display information about the calories, vitamins and minerals contained in various foods. When the FDA completes its work, labels will also have to disclose the number of calories derived...
...Manly Molpus, president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America: "It is a win-win situation for consumers and the food industry." The full extent of the victory, however, may not be clear until as late as 1993. The law would not go into effect until six months after the FDA issues its final labeling regulations, sometime within the next two years...
Americans have gone gaga for natural foods, but do they really know what they're getting? Some answers can be found in the FDA's updated Food Defect Action Levels list, which indicates limits for "natural or unavoidable" substances in processed food. While people might blanch at eating insects and | their excreta, many entomologists insist that the only harm is psychological. Some even contend that the government should allow more bugs in food so that crops can be grown with fewer pesticides...
...denies clozapine must be carefully handled. Up to 2% of those who take the drug develop agranulocytosis, an immune-system disorder that is often fatal if left undetected. The FDA was fully aware of this danger: the drug had been released earlier in Europe and withdrawn temporarily for just this reason. But the regulators decided the drug's potential usefulness was too great to keep it off the market. To address the safety question, the FDA ruled that Sandoz must devise a blood-monitoring system that would spot early signs of the fatal complication...
...monthly for at least two years to ) the NIH, where doctors will infuse her with more engineered T cells and check for possible side effects. But Anderson and Blaese are optimistic. "We're very comfortable with the concept," says Blaese. In the meantime, as a precaution mandated by the FDA, the girl will continue to receive the PEG-ADA drug treatment...