Clean air equals a longer life

The evidence and facts are in: our efforts, as a nation, to clean up the air in our cities has had measurable effects of the best kind - longer, healthier lives for all. Now, we finally have people in the White House who will quit gutting the environmental regulations, and stand up for cleaner air. There is still much more to be done.

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Making the label promises meet the reality

Here’s a good example of how good government can work in our favor:

THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to make it easier—for consumers as well as smaller food packagers—to understand label claims for antioxidant and high-potency products. The agency recently published guidelines to help smaller firms comply with these labeling rules, following up on regulations issued in September 2007.

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