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Washington Post
22-07-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
I'm a Democrat. RFK Jr. is right about food additives.
Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat, represents Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I don't agree on much — but we both know the Food and Drug Administration needs to get serious about food regulation. Most Americans have no idea that the FDA puts synthetic and potentially carcinogenic additives in the same category as salt. It's called GRAS — 'generally recognized as safe' — yet it's anything but.
Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tennessee to regulate lab-grown meat through new legislation
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — New rules for lab-grown meat are set to take effect in Tennessee next month. Lawmakers passed a bill this year to establish a permit process through the Department of Agriculture to sell 'alternative protein' in the state. The legislation will also ban the words 'meat' or 'meat food products' from being printed on the label of lab-grown meat products, and create a $2,000 fine for breaking the rules. 'We've heard about cell-cultured protein or lab-grown meat for several years now, and this has become a concern for people among all walks of life,' Rep. Rusty Grills (R-Newbern), the bill's sponsor, said. 📧 Have breaking news come to you: → Multiple states have passed legislation banning lab-grown meat, including Florida and Alabama. However, Tennessee lawmakers shelved a bill that would have prohibited alternative protein in 2024, and instead passed legislation to regulate how the products are sold and marketed this year. While lab-grown meat isn't available in Tennessee yet, Dr. Neal Schrick, a professor at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, told lawmakers that will eventually change. 'I tell students in class they are going to have the opportunity for this in the future, it's going to be available, and to me, it needs to be their choice,' Schrick said. Schrick testified to lawmakers lab-grown meat needs to be regulated and controlled. Most of its production process is protected by intellectual property, making it impossible to know everything inside the product. The process that is known is complex. 'Now they're using what they call scaffolding, which allows us to put the muscle fibers and the adipose or marbling, like we like to see in a good steak, be able to stack it, and you also see on that slide what they call 3D bioprinting, so that's where the technology is going,' Schrick said. In addition, lab-grown meat cannot filter out antibiotics on its own, which experts believe is cause for concern. 'We've asked that question. How are you going to remove it? There's no liver, there's no kidney, how are you going to clean this antibiotic? We have yet to get an answer,' Schrick said. 'The original one was they would rinse it, but if it's a steak, how are you going to rinse it out of the middle of a steak?' ⏩ Right now, there are two companies in the U.S. authorized to produce lab-grown chicken. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Malay Mail
14-06-2025
- Health
- Malay Mail
Smoking law breaches, unsafe food, and HFMD risks: Penang health sweep nets 167 notices, seven closures, including kindergarten
GEORGE TOWN, June 14 — The Penang state health department shut down seven premises, including a kindergarten, and issued 167 notices for various offences along with compounds worth RM43,600 in a public health operation Thursday. The operation was conducted to ensure compliance of the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Act 2024 (Act 852), the Food Act 1983 (Act 281), the Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act 1975 (Act 154 and the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Amendment) 2025 (Act 342). 'A total of 84 notices were issued with compounds worth RM20,600 for various offences under Act 852, and notices to appear in court for prosecution were issued for two offences for selling cigarettes in open packs and one offence for selling cigarettes under the sale price. 50 tobacco products worth RM179 were also seized,' the department said in a statement tonight. Also, 45 eateries were inspected with 68 notices issued with compounds worth RM14,500 issued under Act 281, with six premises ordered shut immediately and one grocery store issued a compound of RM2,500 for selling products that did not have manufacturer's information. In addition, 111 food products worth an estimated RM766.70 were seized. Finally, a total of 929 premises were inspected under Act 154 and 12 notices with compounds worth RM6,000 were issued, along with a clean up work order notice issued. A kindergarten was also ordered shut under Act 342 after being found to be at risk of spreading hand, foot, and mouth disease. — Bernama
The Standard
24-05-2025
- Health
- The Standard
US to phase out many synthetic food dyes, Kennedy and FDA head say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announces the FDA's intent to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes in the nation's food supply during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Bloomberg
16-05-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
RFK Jr. and Trade Deal Put How US Food Is Made in Spotlight
In the US, cows are treated with growth hormones to help them beef up faster and chicken meat is washed in chlorine to remove harmful bacteria. But both are on the list of practices banned in the European Union and UK, which take a more precautionary approach to regulating how food is produced. They also prohibit certain pesticides and animal-rearing practices that are allowed in the US.
