ACSH in the News (from late 2007)

By ACSH Staff — Dec 31, 2007
•Dr. Elizabeth Whelan was cited in Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News, Vol. 36, No. 4. •Jeff Stier was on the Vicki McKenna radio show in December 2007. •Joe McMenamin and Andrea Tiglio co-wrote a report contrasting obesity and smoking for ACSH that was cited repeatedly at an FDA hearing about gastric banding. •New York Times' Freakonomics blog linked to ACSH's Riskometer.org site in December 2007. •Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and Jeff Stier weighed in about obesity and teens, food technology, and more on MSNBC in December 2007.

•Dr. Elizabeth Whelan was cited in Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News, Vol. 36, No. 4.

•Jeff Stier was on the Vicki McKenna radio show in December 2007.

•Joe McMenamin and Andrea Tiglio co-wrote a report contrasting obesity and smoking for ACSH that was cited repeatedly at an FDA hearing about gastric banding.

•New York Times' Freakonomics blog linked to ACSH's Riskometer.org site in December 2007.

•Dr. Elizabeth Whelan and Jeff Stier weighed in about obesity and teens, food technology, and more on MSNBC in December 2007.

•Jeff Stier was on Fox Business Network on December 3, 2007 discussing excessive warning labels.

•The September/October 2007 issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health cited ACSH's work on PCBs.

•ACSH's Dispatch was quoted October 31, 2007 on BeefMyths.org.

•Dr. Elizabeth Whelan was quoted in October 2007 on radio station 101 WINS in a segment about biomonitoring.

•Dr. Gilbert Ross was on a panel discussing drug importation/counterfeiting on the Dianne Rehm show, a nationally syndicated NPR broadcast emanating from Washington, DC.

•Jeff Stier was interviewed in October 2007 by Radio Free Europe-tied svobodanews.RU.

•Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (CRFSFS) reported in 2007 that their twelfth most popular for that year was ACSH's 2006 contribution, "Low-Calorie Sweeteners and Other Sugar Substitutes: A Review of the Safety Issues."