Category: Risk Analysis

Despite Scare Stories, Fears About BPA are Unnecessary, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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As soon as someone mentions BPA (bisphenol A), I recall the glasses and glass containers our family now uses to replace the plastic containers that previously populated our cupboards. Like many moms, my top priority is keeping my kids safe, ...
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Starbucks Applauded for Standing Firm in Defense of GMOs

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Free-Market Activist Group Urges International Coffee Giant to Reject Doing Business with Suppliers Working With Activists Opposing Company and Humanitarian Interests Seattle, WA / Washington, D.C. - At the annual meeting of Starbucks shareholders in Seattle Wednesday, the National Center ...
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If You Liked Mayor Bloomberg, You’ll Love Mayor de Blasio

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The New York Post reported over the weekend that Mayor de Blasio’s new Department of Sanitation commissioner, Kathryn Garcia, has big plans for New Yorkers like myself and our garbage. [Garcia] said she’d expand Mayor Bloomberg’s composting program just after ...
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Stier Shorts Out Nanny State Argument to Unplug Kids’ Electronics

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Jeff Stier, director of the National Center’s Risk Analysis Division, said a blogger’s call for banning kids under the age of 12 from using electronic devices is “ignoring balance” and will “do more harm by stifling innovation.” The nanny state ...
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Statement of Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier in Response to Chimerix Decision to Make Experimental Drug Brincidofovir Available to Seven-Year-Old Boy

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New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - The following is the response of Jeff Stier, director of the National Center's Risk Analysis Division, to the decision of the drug company Chimerix to make an experimental drug, Brincidofovir, available to an ...
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Obama Administration to Insert Global Warming Activism into Dietary Guidelines Mandated by Congress

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Climate Change Activists to Meet Food Police at Closed-Door Meeting March 14 New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - At a closed-door meeting to take place March 14, the Obama Administration's Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services plan ...
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Los Angeles City Council Votes to Treat Much-Safer E-Cigarettes Just Like Dangerous Tobacco Cigarettes

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Vote Closer than Expected; Public Health Advocates Hope Elected Officials are Becoming Aware of Relative Public Health Benefits of Tobacco-Free E-Cigarette "Vaping" Alternative Los Angeles, CA / Washington, D.C. - In a closer vote than expected, the Los Angeles City ...
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Project 21 Members Predicted First Lady’s Food Fanaticism

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Celebrating the fourth anniversary of her “Let’s Move!” kid nutrition and fitness regulatory crusade, First Lady Michelle Obama used last week as a springboard from which she launched more new ways to further regulate away Americans’ food freedom. This sort ...
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Nanny State Group Questions Michelle Kwan’s Dual Roles as Both Member of the President’s Council on Fitness and Coca-Cola Ambassador

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Policy Group Calls Attack on Kwan's Role "Absurd," Says Food Police Groups Undermine Fight Against Obesity by Being Too Absolutist Washington, D.C. - Today the National Center for Public Policy Research put out a call for food police groups to ...
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Listen: National Center’s Almasi Shatters Chuck Schumer, Food Babe Claims Over Pennsylvania Airwaves

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After the Subway sandwich chain buckled to the criticism of the “Food Babe” blogger and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rushed to the cameras to demand a ban on the harmless food additive azodicarbonamide, I had the honor of appearing on ...
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