Content tagged "FDA"
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Posted by Allison MacLachlan S.M., Science Writing, 2011
Topics: aspartame, FDA, health, obesity, sweetAspartame: 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.
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Posted by Amitabh Avasthi S.M., Science Writing, 2004
Topics: biology, FDA, fish, Food and Drug Administration, genetics, GMO, regulation, transgenic animalsSuperfish: The Coming Blue Revolution
There is growing concern among many scientists that genetically modified fish could lead to undesirable consequences, even ecological disaster.