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Chemical Cuisine

Our food additive safety ratings

Wondering which ingredients in your foods and beverages are safe? Our Chemical Cuisine database rates additives—used to preserve foods and affect their taste, texture, or appearance—from ‘safe' to 'avoid.'

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Caffeine Chart

How much is too much?

Caffeine is one of the only FDA-approved drugs that is present naturally and legally added to widely consumed foods. Exactly how much caffeine is there in the food and beverages you consume? CSPI has compiled the data.

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Banning Red 3

Where is Red 3 legal?

CSPI’s interactive map tracks which states have introduced or passed legislation to ban the carcinogenic color additive Red 3 from foods and beverages.

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Tell Congress: Support the Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act

Support this commonsense bill that allows investigators to enter large animal farms and sample dangerous diseases that could pass onto humans.

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Advocacy

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CSPI’s work improves the way America eats by transforming the food environment in schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and public places. We fight to keep our food supply free of dangerous chemicals and pathogens. We push government and industry to make transparent, science-based decisions.

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Booklet

The Healthy Cook's Kitchen: Seafood

Eat seafood once or twice a week. That’s what health experts recommend. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a stable of simple, scrumptious, and healthy recipes to help you get there? That’s where we come in! In the third installment of The Healthy Cook’s Kitchen series, chef Kate Sherwood shares some of her favorite recipes. How does Poached Provencal White Fish sound? Or Snapper Tacos with Avocado Salsa? Mmm…

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