Archive - 2008

Happy holidays. With so many people on hiatus from last week until
January 5, we thought a brief recap of some recent consumer and civil justice news might be useful:

by Kendra Pierre-Louis

There’s a rumor circulating around the foodie and agricultural corners of the internet that President-Elect Obama might choose best selling author and New York Times contributing writer Michael Pollan as his new Secretary of Agriculture.

In a Washington Post article yesterday noting a

originally posted by Joe Newman on Citizen Vox

A couple of weeks ago, we decried
the FDA's cozy relationship with industry in its announcement that the safety
of products containing BPA was "adequate." It looks like we weren't
the only ones who noticed.

Barack Obama's $150 million haul in September so dramatically exceeded the $84 million grant he would have received had he opted in to the presidential public funding system that many pundits have declared the system moribund.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has joined
the New England Journal of Medicine (published by the Massachusetts Medical
Society) in urging the Supreme Court not to grant immunity to pharmaceutical
companies for lapses in FDA-approved prescription labels. 

U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) appears to have
abused his franking privileges and violated U.S.