CenterForScienceInThePublicInterest

After years of virtual silence about the labeling tricks food companies play on consumers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration came out with a loud and clear statement that it will start cracking down on misleading, or flat out wrong, labels. FDA officials sent warning letters to 17 food...

Coca Cola has come up with a great way to make more money: Give you less Coke for more money and get you to think it's doing you a favor. Coca Cola is branding the 7.5-ounce cans as "90-calorie portion-control mini-cans." That translates into they want you to keep drinking Coke, which you might...

Eating popcorn at the movies used to be fun. Now it's scary, thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the advocacy group that also has given the beat-down to Chinese food, fast food and most other things Americans love to pig out on. The group performed lab tests on popcorn...

Think you're safe eating foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration? Think again, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit health advocacy group. What many consumers consider healthy foods -- including eggs and leafy greens -- are implicated in 40% of...

Quorn, a popular meat alternative sold at grocery stores nationwide, can cause allergic reactions that make people violently ill and should carry a warning on its label, according to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. CSPI says reactions range from vomiting and...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has sued Coca Cola, claiming that the marketing of the wildly popular Vitamin Water is "deceptive." "It truly shocks the conscience that a company like Coke would try to keep customers by selling them a soft drink and telling them it's a vitamin," said...