• Health Blog

    NFI Op Ed Exposes Activists Who Put Politics Before Public Health

    Heres an Op Ed that ran today in the Washington Times by NFI Vice President Mary Anne Hansan:HANSAN: Enviros to babies: We hope youre born dumbEco-falsehoods about mercury in fish expose activists who...

  • Health Blog

    Misinformation Lives On Even in Retirement

    In case you came across this AARP blog posting today Just How Healthy is Seafood? You should know we did too. And we felt it was a touch light on well facts and science. So, NFIs registered dietitian ...

  • Health Blog

    When Science and Health are Collateral Damage

    Consumers have been hammered over the last few weeks with a slew of common and calculated pieces of misinformation about mercury in seafood. Not as part of a public education campaign gone awry or fau...

  • Health Blog

    Sierra Club Uses Huffington Post to Peddle Distortions

    Yesterday the Sierra Club posted about mercury on the Huffington Post and unfortunately they chose to make erroneous assertions about seafood throughout the column, rhetoric Huffington Post editors sh...

  • Health Blog

    Ghost of Terrible Ideas Past Haunts GotMercury?

    A recent Associated Press article out of Milwaukee got me thinking about last years holiday season and how the misguided activist group GotMercury? decided it would be a good idea to ask charitable or...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Believe This Not That

    When the Authors of the popular book Eat This Not That decided to take on fish this week apparently they also decided to abandon the idea that authors should a.) do research and b.) that said research...

  • Health Blog

    Sierra Club Out of Step with Science

    The environmental group Sierra Club has long fought against pollution from power plants, but in its latest battle against coal, the group is using misguided rhetoric in an effort to link human exposur...

  • Health Blog

    When Is a Blog Not A Blog?

    No one likes being duped. But thats how it feels to read the posts on the blog, Moms Clean Air Force. The site appears to be a place where mothers share their experiences more or less spontaneously. O...

  • Health Blog

    The Next Generation of Misreporting

    Its no secret that these days that news organizations, especially on line operations, are hungry for content and inexpensive ways to develop it. MSNBC.com appears to be harnessing the power of the eve...

  • Health Blog

    New York Times Hides Ignorance and Poor Research Behind Opinion

    September 21, 2011John Geddes
    Managing Editor
    New York Times
    VIA EmailDear Mr. Geddes,Today New York Times blogger Mark Bittman asks the question, is it Time to Boycott Tuna Again? His ...

Media Blog

    GG CCTV Screen GrabWhether it’s the tip of a hat for a job well done or a demand for correction keep up with NFI’s latest media work on the Media Blog from NFI's Vice President for Communications Gavin Gibbons.