Content tagged "FDA"

Posted by Allison MacLachlan S.M., Science Writing, 2011
Topics: aspartame, FDA, health, obesity, sweet

Aspartame: Artifice and the Science of Sweet

Aspartame has become an extremely popular artificial sweetener since its entry into the American market in 1981. This thesis takes a journalistic look at how artifice came to satisfy the human sweet tooth.
Posted by Amitabh Avasthi S.M., Science Writing, 2004
Topics: biology, FDA, fish, Food and Drug Administration, genetics, GMO, regulation, transgenic animals

Superfish: The Coming Blue Revolution

There is growing concern among many scientists that genetically modified fish could lead to undesirable consequences, even ecological disaster.