April 24, 2013
Last night I read a thought-provoking piece in Slate by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld in which she asks parents to take precautions at the playground to protect her food-allergic daughter and others like her. After explaining how chance encounters with various foods on the playground could potentially cause her child to suffer fatal anaphylaxis, Sittenfeld makes these requests: If your [...]
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April 23, 2013
I recently had the chance to appear on a local television show hosted by our school board president, Anna Eastman, in which I and my colleague Delia Thibodeaux were interviewed about serving on our School Health Advisory Council (SHAC). Thanks to Anna for giving us the opportunity to spread the word about all the great [...]
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An Open Letter to FDA From 29 Organizations and Experts re: Dairy Products and Non-Nutritive Sweeteners
April 15, 2013In late February, I alerted you to an FDA citizen petition which would allow the dairy industry to add non-nutritive sweeteners (such as aspartame) to milk and 17 other dairy products without the prominent front-label “nutrient content claims” currently required by FDA regulations — phrases like “reduced sugar” or “reduced calorie.” I explained to you in detail [...]