Archive for June 2nd, 2009

Cheerios® – breakfast cereal or…drug?

Cheerios® - venerable breakfast cereal or…drug? Last month the FDA issued a warning letter to General Mills CEO Ken Powell, informing him that the cholesterol-lowering claims on the Cheerios label transformed it from food product to unapproved drug.  The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 allows for certain authoritative health claims to be [...]