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On May 1, 2026, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) published requests for information about outsourcing food service, commissary, and health care across all 122 BOP institutions nationwide. Today, the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Carceral Nutrition Project (CNP) urged the BOP and Congress not to move forward with privatizing those fundamental operations in federal prisons.

Today, the New York State Assembly passed the Sodium Warning Bill (S428A/A5207A), legislation designed to strengthen menu transparency at restaurants statewide and help consumers make informed choices.

The California Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees yesterday advanced two major food safety and transparency bills sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest: SB 869 (Sen. Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson) Requires chain restaurant menus to clearly identify beverages containing more than 50 percent of the recommended daily value for added sugars, helping consumers make informed decisions at the point of purchase.

The firing or resignation of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is more intra-MAHA chaos at a beleaguered and battered Department of Health and Human Services. When you don’t have a CDC Director, an FDA Commissioner, or a Surgeon General, the obvious question is: Why do you have this HHS Secretary? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is the cause of much of the chaos that has resulted in these job vacancies. HHS is rotting from the head.

A new report released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Carceral Nutrition Project finds that privatized food service in US prisons and jails raises serious concerns about nutrition, food safety, and oversight.

A report published today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest finds that corn tortillas fortified with folic acid are more available in U.S. stores than they were three years ago, with some newly-fortified products introduced by major national corn tortilla brands like Gruma’s Mission and Guerrero brands and Walmart’s Great Value brand.

Max Crowley, Penn State Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend about US$600 million in public health grants to four states before a federal court temporarily blocked the action. Hundreds of millions of dollars that had already been allocated by Congress were briefly put on hold before the court intervened.

Yesterday, New York and California lawmakers and leading public health advocates joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest for a virtual press conference (recording here) supporting Albany’s landmark Food Safety and Chemical Disclosure Act (S1239E/A1556E), sponsored by Senator Kavanagh and Assemblymember Kelles, and Sacramento’s Food Additive Safety and Transparency Act (AB 2034), sponsored by Assemblymember Addis, amid rampant gaps in federal food safety regulation.

by Nicole Santa Cruz More than 400,000 Arizonans have lost their SNAP benefits since July—the largest decline in the nation by a wide margin—as an underfunded state agency administered changes called for in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The drop represents nearly 47% of the state’s participants in the program better known as food stamps and includes about 180,000 children, according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which administers the program.

In a Viewpoint published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Irene Ulrich, senior policy scientist at Center for Science in the Public Interest, and CSPI President Dr. Peter G. Lurie identify persistent gaps in the agency’s transparency practices, despite important gains in recent decades, including mandatory online publication of action packages, labeling, and post market safety reports.