FDA commissioner resigns.David Kessler David Kessler may refer to:
"Dr. Kessler is by far the best commissioner the FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. has had in the past quarter century, and possibly in its history," said CSPI CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest CSPI Corporate Service Price Index CSPI Cumulative Schedule Performance Index executive director Michael Jacobson. "Unlike his predecessors, Kessler enthusiastically used the regulatory powers of the FDA to improve the nation's health." Among Kessler's key achievements: The FDA regulated cigarettes as a nicotine-delivery system, giving the agency power to limit cigarette advertising to children. It also ensured that the "Nutrition Facts" labels on foods are clear and informative. "Let's hope the next commissioner has Dr. Kessler's wisdom, energy, and compassion," said Jacobson. Starbucks Brew-Ha-Ha How much caffeine is in a cup of Starbucks coffee? Before writing our December 1996 cover story on caffeine, we asked the company for test results. When we got them, we were floored: "Our average caffeine content for regular coffee is 250.3 mg for 8 oz." Starbucks explained that its "darker" roasting drives more moisture out of the beans, which means more coffee in each tablespoon ta·ble·spoon n. Abbr. T, tbsp. A measure of about 3 teaspoons or 15 milliliters. tablespoon a household unit of volume or capacity; equivalent to three teaspoons or approximately 15 milliliters; in metric , and that it uses twice the usual amount of grounds. "So our caffeine content will be higher," the company admitted. And it was Starbucks's higher number that we published. Now the company says that its lab report was not for a typical cup of Starbucks coffee after all, but for "the maximum amount that might be extracted from the amount of beans that we use," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. senior vice president of coffee Dave Olsen. "What you actually experience is much, much lower." And just how much caffeine is in a cup of brewed regular Starbucks coffee? "We have not looked at that in any specific ways as yet," says Olsen. So we recently purchased the eight-ounce ("Short") "Coffee of the Day" at a total of ten Starbucks in Dallas, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , Seattle, Urbana (Illinois), and metropolitan Washington, D.C. We had them analyzed by an independent laboratory. The caffeine ranged from 110 mg to 175 mg, and averaged 140 mg. We've given Starbucks our results. |
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