Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat,… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
