The FDA plans to increase misdemeanor prosecutions of industry execs as it looks to refocus its Office of Criminal Investigations (see this letter to the Senate Finance committee). The move comes in response to a new report from the General Accountability Office that...
McCains bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are food products that have been in the food supply and not chemically...
By Dr. Jeffrey Schaler Assistant Professor of Justice, Law & Society It is fifty years now since Thomas Szasz rocked the world of psychiatry by writing The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct. His work continues to have a profound...
A recent study reported that those who drank 2 or more soft drinks per week had a significantly higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who did not. Xylitol is a natural sweetener that is made from Birch tree bark and corn husks and tastes just like...
