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...sudden consensus on food-safety reform isn't necessarily the result of principled legislators standing up to moneyed interests. On the contrary, industry powers like the Grocery Manufacturers Association now support the new oversight, which reflects corporate anxiety over the volatile current system and a recognition that they need a government imprimatur to establish credibility with consumers. Peanut-butter manufacturers, after all, saw sales decline 13% in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The spinach industry lost more than $350 million after a wave of E. coli infections linked...
...primary objective will be to support the University during the transition of leadership within [Faust's] senior administration," Vautin said in the release, adding that he intends to fill the organizational gaps left by the 177 central administration staff members who opted to take the retirement package. "My personal goal will be to ensure that the VPA organization is fully engaged and ready to work with the new leadership...
...This support of increased government oversight, which Philip Morris first endorsed in 2001, has given even some backers of the bill pause. "It is a concern that the tobacco industry is involved" in the legislation, admits David Burns, a leading tobacco researcher who has testified in court that "light" cigarettes are no less harmful than regular ones and has conducted studies for the World Health Organization and U.S. government. Big Tobacco "has a very dark and aggressive history of trying to change both science and public policy to its economic favor," he says. Still, like the vast majority...
...safe cigarette," the FDA regulatory structure will allow for research into how to reduce the harm of tobacco. "It's unusual to be on the same side as Philip Morris," he admits. "But their reasons are not our reasons. The bill is a good bill. If they happened to support it, that's fine with...
...even some of those who support the overall effort aren't entirely sold on some of the particulars. Take the meeting that White House health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held earlier this week with leaders of groups that represent minorities, the disabled and the disadvantaged. While these are the very segments of society that stand to benefit the most from expanding health coverage to the 47 million or so Americans who currently lack it, they were nonetheless skeptical of some of the things that Obama is trying...