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Nutrition Action Healthletter

| March 01, 2006 | Jacobson, Michael F. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Center for Science in the Public Interest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Since 1971, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (publisher of Nutrition Action) has urged the food industry to sell safer, healthier foods and to market them honestly. We've called on Congress and regulatory agencies to protect consumers. Unfortunately, they've largely failed to do so.

As a second approach, we've tried to generate publicity about misleading food labels and about ads sponsored by the beef, egg, and pork industries, as well as by Campbell, Procter & Gamble, and other companies. Sometimes companies changed their labels and ads; more often they didn't.

For the past year, CSPI has increasingly employed lawsuits, or the threat of…

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