On Regularity and Regulation, Health Claims and Hype

There is “a broad trend in the food industry—using nutrition-related claims to market products when the scientific substantiation that consumers will actually benefit is weak or non-existent. . . . Going after them one-by-one with the legal and resource constraints [that the Food and Drug Administration] work[s] under is a little like playing Whac-a-Mole, with one hand tied behind your back.”