Legal Opinion
Public Citizen, Claudia Silverman and Sidney M. Wolfe v. Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 31, 1980No. 79-1690PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge TAMM.
TAMM, Circuit Judge:
In this action Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest group, and two of its members, seek to bring the nitrites used in bacon within the regulatory ambit of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They want a declaratory judgment that nitrites are an “unsafe” food additive within the meaning of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 301-392 (1976). Such a declaration would require the FDA to ban the use of nitrites in bacon and other cured meats. United States District Judge Gerhard Gesell denied…
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