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Dietary Guidelines Fail to Recommend Less Meat Consumption
The federal government's new Dietary Guidelines miss a key opportunity to steer Americans toward a diet that is healthier and better for the environment by not clearly recommending that people reduce...
EWG Applauds Exclusion of Anti-GMO Labeling Rider in Omnibus
EWG applauded the rejection today by congressional leaders of efforts by the food industry to block GMO labeling through a rider in the omnibus spending bill.
Obama Administration Reverses Approval of Dow AgroSciences Weed-Killer Over Environmental Risks
In a stunning reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has retreated from its earlier decision to let Dow AgroSciences market a new weed killer, branded Enlist Duo, which the company...
GMO Salmon Approval Leaves Consumers In The Dark
The Food and Drug Administration's decision to approve genetically modified salmon will still leave consumers in the dark about what's in their food, underscoring the need for a mandatory, national...
EWG’s Heather White Wins Sustainability Prize
EWG Executive Director Heather White has been named one of Green Building & Design Magazine's Top 20 Women in Sustainability Leadership.
Scores of Baked Goods Contain Possible Cancer-Causing Additive
A new analysis by Environmental Working Group has found potassium bromate, a possible cancer-causing food additive, in more than 86 breads and other baked goods, including such well-known products as...
Big Food Companies Spend Millions to Defeat GMO Labeling
Federal lobby disclosure forms from big food and biotechnology companies, and their trade groups opposed to mandatory GMO labeling reveal a surge in lobbying expenditures during the first half of 2015...
DARK Act Passes but Fight for Americans’ Right to Know Far From Over
Legislation dubbed the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or DARK, Act, passed the House of Representatives today, but the fight for a more transparent food industry is only just beginning, EWG's Scott...
Voters in Six Key States Overwhelmingly Favor Mandatory GMO Food Labeling
New surveys show that citizens in six key states overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling for foods containing genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs.
Ag Committee Advances Anti-GMO Labeling Bill
Advocates for mandatory GMO labeling today denounced the House Agriculture Committee's vote to approve legislation that has come to be known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know (or DARK) Act...
Anti-GMO Labeling Bill Just Keeps Getting DARKer
This week the House Agriculture Committee is expected to mark up and vote on a bill that would take away the right of states to label food with genetically modified ingredients, or GMOs. According to...
White House Calls for Update to Biotech Regulation
The White House's call to update the system evaluating the safety of crops and food produced by genetic engineering is a foundation for building a more transparent food system that includes mandatory...
Dow Crop Chemical Labeled "Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans"
The decision by an organization of the world's leading cancer experts to classify the herbicide 2,4-D as a possible carcinogen underscores the risk posed by the U.S. government's recent approval of 2...
Watchdog Groups, Scientists Warn Policymakers on Risks of Fish High in Mercury
Health, environmental justice and consumer watchdog groups are joining independent research scientists to warn policymakers about the serious, if unintended, health risks posed by misguided government...
Revised Anti-Consumer “DARK Act” Doubles Down on Blocking State Labeling, Regulation of GMOs
A new draft of the “Deny Americans the Right to Know” (DARK) Act being circulated in the House of Representatives would not only preempt state laws that require labeling of food containing genetically...
FDA Orders Three-Year Phase-Out of Artificial Trans Fat Source
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered food processors to stop using partially hydrogenated oils, a major source of artificial trans fats blamed for 7,000 deaths and 20,000 heart attacks in...
French Government Takes Steps to Protect its Citizens From Monsanto's Weed Killer
By restricting the sale of glyphosate in garden centers, the French government is taking steps to protect its citizens from a weed killer that the World Health Organization categorizes as "probably...
Subway Will Remove Artificial Ingredients
Subway's decision to remove artificial ingredients from its menu by 2017 is an important step toward a cleaner and healthier food system and a big win for Americans who don't want potentially harmful...
Hidden Secret: Harmful Trans Fat Ingredients Lurk in Tens of Thousands of Supermarket Foods
A new analysis by Environmental Working Group has found that harmful artificial trans fatty acids lurk in more than 27 percent of more than 84,000 processed foods common in American supermarkets...
EWG Applauds Rep. DeLauro’s Bill to Protect Americans from Arsenic in Rice
EWG applauds Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn., for her commitment to protect public health from the worrisome amounts of inorganic arsenic in rice and popular rice-based processed foods.