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Food Policy Insider: December 2025

Consumer Reports’ monthly roundup of its efforts to promote a safe and healthy food system. In this month’s Food Policy Insider: Speed Bumps in the…

December 3, 2025

Food

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Consumer Reports announces winners of its Microplastics Detection Challenge

Contest challenged participants to develop simple and inexpensive at-home tests to enable people to detect microplastics in their food YONKERS, NY — Consumer Reports today…

November 19, 2025

Food

Food Policy Insider: November 2025

Consumer Reports’ monthly roundup of its efforts to promote a safe and healthy food system. In this month’s Food Policy Insider: What does an extended…

October 28, 2025

Food

Consumer Reports letter urging FDA not to exempt infant formula or medical foods from its definition of ultra-processed foods

Letter from Consumer Reports calling on the Food and Drug Administration to include infant formula and medical foods in its definition of ultra-processed foods, since…

October 28, 2025

Food

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Consumer Reports statement on the food industry’s new campaign to block state bans on harmful food chemicals

WASHINGTON DC – Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, issued the following statement in response to the food industry’s misleadingly named Americans…

October 21, 2025

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Consumer Reports calls on FDA to set strict limits on lead in protein powders

CR investigation finds two-thirds of protein powders and shakes tested contained high levels of lead in a single serving YONKERS, NY – Consumer Reports urged…

October 14, 2025

Food

Lead in baby food: What about dietary supplements?

By Brian Ronholm of Consumer Reports, Tom Neltner of Unleaded Kids, and Mariah Walters Orose of Unleaded Kids What Happened As we have noted previously,…

October 10, 2025

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California Governor Newsom signs first-in-the-nation bill banning harmful ultra-processed food in school meals

New law directs California to identify especially harmful ultra-processed foods to be phased out of schools SACRAMENTO, CA – California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation today…

October 8, 2025

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Consumer Reports statement on Walmart’s pledge to remove harmful food additives from its private label products

CR applauds Walmart and calls on other grocers to follow suit WASHINGTON DC — Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, issued the…

October 1, 2025

Food

Food Policy Insider: October 2025

Consumer Reports’ monthly roundup of its efforts to promote a safe and healthy food system. In this month’s Food Policy Insider: What the government shutdown…

October 1, 2025

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