Big Food

Tobacco companies used their cigarette playbook to make ultraprocessed foods appealing to children and moms, internal documents show.

Researchers say a proposed U.S. food label is less effective than those in other countries and falls short in helping consumers identify healthy foods.

As another study links ultraprocessed foods to heart attacks and strokes, a leading researcher breaks down the evidence and calls for policy action.

A pending court complaint alleges bias, raising questions about the power of regulators with industry ties to restrict public health messaging.

Researchers found residue of the petroleum-based solvent in a few dozen food products, including vegetable oil, chicken, butter, milk and infant formula.

Calls for sugar taxes and nondescript packaging for tobacco were removed during negotiations ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting in September.

Funded by the maple industry, a researcher has exaggerated his findings to suggest that syrup could help prevent serious diseases.

Experts say the FDA’s watchdog for America’s food supply is uniquely vulnerable to ongoing federal cutbacks – which could make the system even more reliant on companies policing themselves.

Alcohol companies are targeting new markets and dodging regulation worldwide while excess drinking causes millions of deaths each year.

While studies show that food products, consumer habits and awareness have changed, experts say that it can take decades for obesity rates to budge.

Investigations by The Examination, The New York Times and El Universo uncovered food safety lapses that caused hundreds of children to be poisoned by cinnamon that went from Sri Lanka to Ecuador to the United States.

Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year. Records show how, time and again, the contamination went unnoticed across borders.

As taxes aimed at reducing sugary drink consumption have been adopted around the world, health advocates face familiar pushback from the sweetened-beverage industry.