Silverglade leaves CSPI
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
After more than 25 years with the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Bruce Silverglade resigns as the advocacy group's director of legal affairs and joins the law firm Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Bode Matz as a principal Nov. 1. While at CSPI, Silverglade led the bipartisan campaign to enact the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 and recently worked with FDA to identify and enforce against firms that make inappropriately aggressive nutrient and health claims that could make foods unapproved drugs (1"The Tan Sheet" March 8, 2010)
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