Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2012 |
''FDA Probing Safety of Metal-on-Metal Hip Implants'' "While thousands of Americans have benefited from hip replacements over the years, problems with metal-on-metal implants can lead to troubles requiring surgery to replace defective devices, experts say. Writing earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pew's Joshua Rising and colleagues said that "there is now compelling evidence that these implants fail at a higher rate than hip prostheses made of other materials." Source: U.S. News and World Report |
Medical Safety |
| Jun 28, 2012 |
''Health assessment calls for USDA nutrition standards in schools'' "The Health Impact Project, released Tuesday by the Kids’ Safe & Healthful Foods Project, was conducted to examine how the agency’s new policies will affect student nutrition and how new dietary standards would affect school revenues." Source: APHA Public Health News |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jun 29, 2012 |
''New school nutrition standards on horizon'' "A recent study has reaffirmed what local school officials already knew: Student health and school budgets can both benefit from higher nutrition standards." Source: Seacost Online |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 9, 2012 |
''School lunches healthier, Administrators work to balance nutrition with appeal to students'' "A study released late last month delivers the message: Make competitive foods offered in schools healthier, too. The study was a collaboration between the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and came from two projects, the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project – the director, Jessica Donze Black, is a University of Delaware graduate – and the Health Impact Project." Source: The News Journal |
School Food, Health Impact Assessment |
| Jul 13, 2012 |
''Dear F.D.A.: Stop Drugging Animals'' "The comment period for the F.D.A.’s ruling on antibiotic use in animals closed yesterday, and at least 200,000 people have told the agency that the routine use of drugs in animal rearing must be restricted. The agency, which has stalled on this for 30 years, has been ordered by two judges to act now." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 16, 2012 |
''Delays in new food-safety regulations cause frustration'' Seventeen months after President Obama signed a law hailed as a massive overhaul of food safety, major portions have yet to be implemented. Erik Olson, director of food programs with the Pew Health Group, remarks, "What's important is that these new protections of our food supply be put into place as soon as possible to protect all Americans from getting sick from contaminated food. Source: USA Today |
Food Safety |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Teen who nearly died after eating contaminated cantaloupe speaks out'' A Brevard County, FL, teenager who helped bring about the Food Safety Modernization Act told WFTV she wanted to know why the federal law isn't being fully implemented. Source: WFTV-9 |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Groups Urge Action on Food Safety Law'' "Ten consumer groups that helped promote a landmark food safety law passed in 2010 say the Obama administration is holding up the rules that would put it into effect, a delay they say could cost money and lives this summer, the peak season for food contamination outbreaks." Source: The New York Times |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''White House under fire for delays on food safety rules'' "Dana Dziadul and her mother, Colette, are joining other food safety advocates in urging the White House to implement provisions of a federal law that President Barack Obama signed in January 2011." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 17, 2012 |
''Families, health advocates urge Obama to act on food safety'' "Families, public health advocates and consumer groups called on the White House on Tuesday to implement delayed provisions in a food safety law they say would help prevent some of the nearly 3,000 deaths caused by food-borne illnesses each year." Source: Reuters |
Food Hazards |
