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6 stories tagged "regulation"
No One Guards the Toddler Food Aisle: 81 Percent of Its Foods Are Ultra-Processed
Parents assume the baby aisle is vetted. It isn't. No US rule makes toddler food meet a nutrient standard, and an Austin audit of 2,783 products marketed for 6-to-36-month-olds found 81 percent ultra-processed and nearly half failing a WHO benchmark.
Drugs & FDAFor Years, a Foreign Factory Could Put the Active Ingredient in Your Medicine and Never Tell the FDA
The FDA led with a paperwork convenience for manufacturers. Buried underneath was the admission that it can't always trace where a drug's active ingredient was made, a blind spot Congress had to order it to close.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA's Fix for a $10 Billion Flood of Chinese Vapes Is a Form the Smugglers Will Ignore
Foreign manufacturers ship most of America's vapes and falsify the customs forms to do it. Washington's answer is to ask them to register with the agency they already evade.
Nutrition & FoodThe thin trial behind England's next supermarket-layout mandate
A non-randomized trial of 36 English discount stores produced a moment-of-implementation bump in produce sales that lost statistical significance by three months, and a household-purchasing signal that never landed. The authors' immediate call for a national layout mandate is the louder finding.
Drugs & FDAAndrew Huberman's peptide masterclass and the published evidence
Andrew Huberman's June 1 episode on peptides walks through BPC-157 and seven other compounds. The published human evidence for its lead substance runs to fewer than thirty people.
InvestigationsVietnam's New Integrity Rule Arrives 251 Retractions Late
Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology issued a research-integrity framework with permanent bans on May 25, 2026. The Retraction Watch database already lists 251 retractions carrying Vietnamese affiliations.