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Marion Nestle
Nutritionist; Professor, New York University
Recent Activity
Burger King’s latest ad: a hoax?
Given the number of people who have forwarded this to me, the ad agency that dreamed up this idea must be happy. But it it for real? I can’t find it on the Burger King website, so maybe it comes from The Onion? Anyone know the source?
June 25, 2009, 12:35 PM
Organic wine: clarification of the rules (?)
You would think that the labeling of organic wine would be simple, but you would be so wrong. Just for fun, here’s who does what in the federal government when it comes to food and beverages. For the most part: USDA does meat and poultry FDA does everything else Except alcohol, which is done by the Alcohol and [...]
June 24, 2009, 5:13 PM
The latest trick in recalled foods: repack and redistribute!
Even I cannot keep up with what the packers of Salmonella-contaminated foods are willing to do to sell their products. Remember the recalled pistachios? Turns out the recalled nuts were simply repacked and redistributed. If you are a packer and don’t like your test results, find a lab that will give you the results [...]
June 23, 2009, 5:54 PM
My once every three weeks Food Matters column for the San Francisco Chronicle deals this time with a slew of questions about organic foods: what are they, can you trust them, are they worth it, aren’t they elitist? In response, Scott Exo of the Food Alliance points out that his organization does certifications that deal with [...]
June 22, 2009, 11:36 PM
How could E. coli O157:H7 get into cookie dough?
Thanks to Bill Marler for discussing this question on his blog this morning and for suggesting starting with the ingredient list. As a typical example, here is the ingredient list for Nestlé’s Chocolate Chunk cookie dough (others can be found at this site): INGREDIENTS: BLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC [...]
June 20, 2009, 12:07 PM
Marion Nestle is a consumer activist, nutritionist, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Nestle received her BA (1959), PhD (1968), and MPH (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1988, Nestle was appointed Chair of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. She held that position until 2004, when she became the Paulette Goddard Professor in the same department.
A self-proclaimed “Socialist Scholar,” Nestle is the author of Food Politics, which explored the way corporations influence our nutritional choices, and What to Eat, which an anatomy of how to navigate the modern American supermarket. Nestle firmly believes that the way food is marketed today discourages healthy nutritional options.
