{"id":758,"date":"2009-06-19T15:28:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=758"},"modified":"2009-06-19T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:30:34","slug":"just-say-no-to-cheerios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/just-say-no-to-cheerios\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Say No to Cheerios"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FDA wants to classify Cheerios as a drug.\u00c2\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n

Cheerios claims they reduce cholesterol by 4%, and therefore help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.\u00c2\u00a0 This led the FDA to send them a letter that said, “Based on claims made on your product’s label we have determined (Cheerios) is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug because the product is intended for use in the prevention, mitigation and treatment of disease.”<\/p>\n

It’s likely General Mills will just remove the claims.\u00c2\u00a0 If they don’t you may need a prescription to buy your next box.<\/p>\n

\"Kessler\"

Kessler<\/p><\/div>\n

We haven’t seen this kind of nonsense since the nasty nerd David Kessler headed the FDA.\u00c2\u00a0 His rampages included confiscating 24,000 cartons of orange juice because they were made from concentrate but said “fresh” on the label.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect that when David was a child a grocer’s kid beat him up and took his lunch money.<\/p>\n

This move is championed by The Center for Science in the Public Interest, an uber-nanny group whose goals are to generate junk science and push for laws that will force everyone to eat what CSPI says is best for them.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re bitching about the study used to generate the Cheerios claim, which is more than a little ironic considering their shoddy studies are nearly as valid as creationist’s textbooks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If the FDA wants to do something useful they should slap the CSPI with a heavy fine for using the word “science” in their name.<\/p>\n

Don’t you feel safer knowing that the FDA is attacking General Mills for such modest claims?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s it great to know Big Brother wants to control everything in our lives, right down to the level of\u00c2\u00a0 breakfast cereal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FDA wants to classify Cheerios as a drug.\u00c2\u00a0 Really. Cheerios claims they reduce cholesterol by 4%, and therefore help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.\u00c2\u00a0 This led the FDA to send them a letter that said, “Based on claims made on your product’s label we have determined (Cheerios) is promoted for conditions that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}