39 Quotes by Michael Jacobson

We pretty much ignore them. They are so over the top that I think they come off as just a public relations hatchet man for the restaurant and food processing industry.

We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we'd get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we're going to sue them, they show up in our offices the next week.

While functional foods hold much promise, without effective regulation, they may merely become the snake oil of the next century.

But of course this silly legislative effort has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility and everything to do with pleasing a powerful and politically connected industry.

We had asked for the FDA to consider two other options. One is to get rid of these colorings completely and let companies replace them with safer ingredients. But if the FDA decided to require labeling, at least to indicate that these are insect derived.

Even the most careful consumers, consumers with nutrition degrees, can scrutinize labels and have no idea how much sugar is added and how much comes from the fruit or dairy product.

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

The risk to a given individual from having some saccharin-sweetened soda or coffee is really trivial. It's when you multiply that times 200 million people that the risk becomes much more significant.

These changes will saves thousands of lives every year.