The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing a public docket to obtain comments, supported by scientific evidence, regarding what changes to smokeless tobacco product warnings, if any, “would…
Last week, U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Tobacco Tax Equity Act (S.194), a bill that seeks to make taxes on pipe…
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is “strongly considering” petitioning the Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that preserved the EPA’s decision to allow E15 fuel in the marketplace,…
Visa and MasterCard have announced that as a result of a November 2012 federal district court settlement ruling, they will be able to provide merchants in the US and US…
Skimming has become big business, costing banks, retailers, and consumers $18 billion in 2011, the Huffington Post reports. Many of those skimming cases happened at gasoline station pumps, and 66%…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week announced a final rule strengthening the agency’s authority to use administrative detention to prevent potentially unsafe food from reaching the marketplace.…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds convenience store operators of their responsibility to ensure that all store employees are trained to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (previously…
The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) recently posted a petition on the White House’s petition website to urge action to prevent the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)…
Motorists accustomed to filling up at gas pumps with vapor-collecting attachments on the nozzles could be in for a change. Those nozzles belong to Stage II vapor-recovery systems, which the…
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and David Vitter (R-La.) have introduced legislation to block an increase in the amount of ethanol that can be blended with gasoline. The bill would…