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Sustainability Blog
Greenpeace: Return of The One-Trick Pony
Another Greenpeace publicity scheme prepares to end in failure and embarrassment. For the last several years, the global fundraising group had tried to create buzz for a makeshift top-ten list of so...
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Consumer Protection Blog
NY Post article is a seafood scam
The New York Post is known for sensational headlines and attention-grabbing images – and the iconic outlet can be as bombastic as News Corp desires as long as its reporters adhere to basic journalis...
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Sustainability Blog
Experts Say North American Lobster Not a Threat to Europe
The U.S. announced on Monday (06/06/16) that the North American lobster is not a threat to Europe and does not meet the criteria of an invasive species. A letter by Eileen Sobeck, Assistant Administra...
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Health Blog
Chicago Tribune: What Did They Know and When did They Know It?
Chicago Tribune writer Nneka McGuire is currently working on a story about seafood consumption with a focus on women and pregnant women. NFI has been happy to serve as a resource for Ms. McGuire pro...
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Health Blog
Nutrition Headline Knee-slappers
According to this week’s nonsensical nutrition headlines, vegetable oils and tuna are out to get you. First up, a recent study by Cornell, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution...
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Health Blog
Seriously… what is wrong with Time Magazine?
Yesterday at 9:04 am we reached out to Time Magazine reporter Alice Park, noting that there were no voices in her Environmental Working Group (EWG) mercury story presenting anything other than an EWG ...
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Updated 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines Urge Americans to Eat Seafood at Least Twice Each Week
Contact: Gavin Gibbons (703) 752-8891 ggibbons@nfi.org WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 7, 2016 – The United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released the 2015-2...
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Jennifer McGuire (L), Rima Kleiner (R) Jennifer McGuire, MS, RD As a nutrition science translator, blogger, media critic, and new mom, I believe the most important nutrition advice I can g...
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In 2004, the U.S. FDA and EPA issued joint guidelines aimed at women who are pregnant, might become pregnant, are nursing mothers and small children recommending that they can safely eat 12 ounces of ...
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Health Blog
New York Times Falls Victim To Its Own Warning
Over at the New York Times, Jim Windolf astutely notes that the American media has a corrosive habit of fomenting hysteria over nonexistent health threats, and that we’d probably be better off tunin...