This week, the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Food and Drug Administration, announced efforts to phase out a number of petroleum-based synthetic dyes...

Some things sound too good to be true. I read this article and thought there had to be a catch. And there is one. The scientists involved aren't exactly making "chocolate" out of air...

There are some positive signs from 2024 for the dairy industry moving forward, although headwinds are ever-present, particularly as trade uncertainties prevail for the moment.

President-elect Trump's choice to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is certainly a controversial one. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has voiced well-publicized concerns about vaccines.

As we said goodbye to June, we said hello to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) updated plan for food guidance for the remainder of 2025.

The day before the Senate confirmed this week's new FDA Chair, Dr. Marty Makary, the Agency released a searchable, online tool of a consolidated list of contaminant levels...

As I get older, I find my relationship with alcohol to be a true health challenge. I have written about the growing body of research suggesting the consumption of any amount of alcohol...

On September 9, 2025, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its comprehensive strategy aimed at reversing the rise of childhood chronic diseases in the U.S.

It seems like everywhere I look I find another list. The top 5 romantic trip destinations, the top 10 sports franchises, or the top 20 Father's Day gifts for Dad...

Last week, FDA, USDA and the National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments sent a joint letter to leadership of state Departments of Agriculture and Health alerting those state agencies...

The science is clear that heavy drinking is bad for you. It raises the risk for many conditions including heart and liver disease and over half a dozen types of cancer...

One of my many New Year's resolutions was to eat healthier. A nice idea, you might say, but what does that mean?

When President Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. the Health and Human Services Secretary, both promised a major overhaul of the United States food system.

I've been posting a lot about ultra processed foods (UPF) and how they might be treated in the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines. A couple months ago, a highly anticipated report...

For the first time, the upcoming federal guidance on alcohol consumption is being considered separately from the dietary guidelines.

Recent decisions in Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic have drawn attention for their implications on AI training and copyright law. In both cases, federal judges found that using copyrighted books to train...

To date, most efforts to challenge what LLMs like GPT-5, Claude, Llama, Grok, and Gemini, among others, are doing with copyrighted materials have focused on inputs used to train these models.

Many eyes glossed over when teachers explained the difference between the past and present perfect tenses.

The California Privacy Protection Agency recently approved new regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act that introduce significant requirements for businesses regarding automated decision-making technology, risk assessments, and cybersecurity audits.

Yesterday, President Trump said he didn't like the term "artificial" in "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) because AI is "not artificial, it's genius." Many food companies don't like the word...