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Can you trust your yogurt?

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | June 05, 2008 - 10:48

While I stood there reviewing the stack of newly-arrived law reviews waiting to be shelved in the library, I didn’t expect to find an article that led me to question the veracity of my breakfast. But the law is a wide and wonderful thing, and there it was—and article on untrustworthy yogurt in the latest issue of Food and Drug Law Journal [online resource]. Ms. Leah A. Satine has written a fascinating article entitled “Is My Yogurt Lying? Developing and Applying a Framework for Determining Whether Wellness Claims on Probiotic Yogurts Mislead” [63 Food & Drug L.J. 537] that takes a critical look at the health claims of everyone’s favorite fermented dairy product.

Food and drug law (and the overlap between the two) is a major practice and scholarship area. For further research ideas, try the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s searchable database of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (dealing with all aspects of food and drugs) or browse through the Food Law Prof Blog.

So my yogurt couldn’t pass a polygraph. Does this implicate the fruit?


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