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Pass Food-Safety Reform Now!
Urge the Senate to bring the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act to a vote and reform our broken food-safety system.
Retire Ronald McDonald
For 50 long years, Ronald McDonald has been encouraging America's children (and parents) to go to McDonald's and eat more of those foods that we should be eating less of: namely, burgers, fries, white bread, and soda.
Support a Soft-Drink Tax for California's Children
Urge members of California's Senate Committee on Revenue and Taxation to support SB 1210, a bill that would raise $1.5 billion annually for efforts to prevent childhood obesity by placing a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
Support a Soft-Drink Tax in New York's Budget
A soft-drink tax has not yet been included in the Senate or Assembly versions of New York's budget bill, and lawmakers will soon return from their legislative break to vote on the measure.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a consumer-advocacy organization, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Ottawa, that focuses on health and nutrition issues.
CSPI is best-known for advocating healthier diets, preventing food poisoning, obtaining comphrehensive nutrition labeling of packaged foods and warning labels on alcoholic beverages, and exposing the nutrition content of restaurant foods.
In working to ensure that science is used in the public interest, CSPI also has vigorous programs on corporate influences on science, agricultural biotechnology, marketing alcohol and junk food to kids, and the impact of our diets on the environment.