Category: Risk Analysis

The Missouri Legislature Should Override Governor Nixon’s E-Cigarette Veto

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Now that the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed “deeming regulations” has closed, attention is shifting back to state and local legislative approaches to e-cigarettes. (See our comments to FDA.) While federal regulations ultimately have supremacy, state ...
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NCPPR’s Comments to the FDA Regarding E-Cigarette Regulations

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Today the National Center for Public Policy Research submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration regarding e-cigarette regulations known as "Deeming Regulations." When the proposed rule was first published, I told the Associated Press that "the devil will be ...
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New “Food Czar” Part of Ongoing Obama Divisiveness

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Justin Danhof, director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project, said there is “nothing that the Obama Administration can’t make political — even our favorite steak and potatoes.” Calling her the Obama White House’s new “food czar,” Danhof criticized the ...
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Anti-GMO Proposal Denounced at Safeway Shareholder Meeting

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Shareholder Activists Visit Four Corporations to Urge Enhanced Fight Against Efforts by Organic Food Industry to Stigmatize GMO Foods Washington, D.C. / Pleasanton, CA - At the annual meeting of Safeway shareholders this past Friday in Pleasanton, California, the overwhelming ...
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E-Cigarettes “Biggest Boon to Public Health”

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, points out that e-cigarettes are a “huge threat” to the traditional tobacco industry and “good news for public health.” On “Real Money with Ali Velshi” on the Al Jazeera America ...
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USDA’s Switch From Science-Based Nutrition Advice to Green Agenda Harms Americans

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Health Policy Expert Warns Against Politicization of Diet Advice Issues Such as Climate Change Don't Belong in Government Policymaking About Healthy Eating, Says Health Policy Expert Jeff Stier New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - The naming of an "environmental ...
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Bloomberg Soda Ban a Bust, Project 21’s LeBon Comments

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In a devastating blow to the New York City nanny state of former mayor Michael Bloomberg, judges on the New York State Court of Appeals voted to uphold two lower court rulings thus keeping the city government from banning the ...
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Statement by Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier at United Nations Interactive Hearing on the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases

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New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier intends to deliver at today's United Nations Interactive Hearing with Non-Governmental Organizations, Civil Society Organizations, the Private Sector and Academia on the ...
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RAD Director Jeff Stier to UN Panel: Private Sector Involvement is Key to Fighting Non-Communicable Diseases

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National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier spoke at the United Nations today, urging delegates there to recall that voluntary, private sector initiatives can and should be an effective part of the mix in deterring non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs, ...
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You Can’t Sugarcoat Distasteful Legislation

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In a piece for Forbes, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I discuss campaigns to have the government further regulate what we eat and drink in a misguided effort to fight obesity. When we’ve written about these issues in the past, ...
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