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Sustainability Blog
UNs Food and Agriculture Organization Offers Fish Facts Reality Check
Remember not too many years ago when blearily-eyed activist groups were tearing at their collective hair with an appropriate chorus of hyperbolic why, why, why in response to a study that claimed the ...
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Sustainability Blog
Decimal Points Make Everything More Official
The painfully redundant and ineffective Greenpeace fundraising tool known as the Carting Away The Oceans report has been released and this time it has decimal points. Once a cartoonish mishmash of fut...
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Health Blog
Is it time CNN.com upwave… um… upgrade its editorial standards?
April 24, 2014 Meredith Artley Managing Editor CNN Digital VIA Email Dear Ms. Artley, I am writing to express concern about the article 5 'healthy' foods that can backfire. CNN.com notes that the cont...
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Consumer Protection Blog
Accused Fish Fraudster Makes FDAs Most Wanted List
Did you know the FDA Office of Criminal Investigations has a most wanted fugitives list? The tradition of Most Wanted lists began with the FBI in 1950. Approved by the FBI director himself, the list h...
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Consumer Protection Blog
More Fears About Poor Reporting From the Washington Post
April 21, 2014 Laurie McGinley Health, Environment & Science Editor Washington Post Dear Ms. McGinley, I am writing to express concern over some fundamental journalistic failings found in Daryl Fears ...
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Safety Blog
FDA will Require All Rodale News Stories be Irradiated (for safety)
Is that true? No. Of course its not. But why would we let facts get in the way of a good story? Rodale News doesnt. The news outlet (and I use that term generously) has published another missive ra...
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Health Blog
What The New York Times Knew And When They Knew It
In her article, Sorting Out the Risks of Fish, Roni Rabin does some sorting out alright sorting out of the vast majority of seafood science including several studies provided to her in advance of her...
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Health Blog
February 26, 2014 Alex Crees
Health Editor
Fox News Online
1211 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
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Safety Blog
Dr. Oz Redefines Ridiculous with Radioactive Expert
This isnt the first time weve suggested Dr. Oz use NFI as a resource to avoid embarrassingly out of touch segments like his latest on Fukushima and Fish: February 12, 2014 Ms. C. Denise Beaudoin...
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Health Blog
Consumer Reports Does (Yet Another) Disservice to Consumers
For many, Consumer Reports is synonymous with cars and electronics but when it comes to reporting on nutrition and fish its usually misreporting and manipulation. Heres their latest blunder.February 4...