CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson went on record saying, " Twenty years ago, scientists ( including me ) thought trans was innocuous.

For instance, Doug Gurian-Sherman ( former science director for CSPI's biotechnology project, now a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists ) responded to a 2005 position paper on the regulation of genetically engineered crops by saying, " CSPI ’ s assumption that these crops should take less time is inconsistent with its own positions and clearly misunderstands the science involved.

Editor Michael Kelly wrote an angry letter to CSPI calling them liars and demanding that they apologize to Glass.

CSPI is headed by Michael F. Jacobson, who founded the group in 1971 along with James Sullivan and Albert Fritsch, two fellow scientists from Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.

Much of the concern from CSPI and others was over the original labeling of Quorn as a " mushroom based " product.

CSPI wrote a letter to the editor and issued a press release pointing out numerous inaccuracies and distortions, and even hinted at possible plagiarism.

Conversely, the CSPI decried the rest of the Burger King menu as being vastly unhealthy.

FPS's primary competition up to this time was IBM ( 3838 ) and CSPI.

In 1982, the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( CSPI ), a watchdog and consumer advocacy group, known to spar with ACSH, published an extensive report on ACSH's practices that stated, " ACSH appears to be a consumer fraud ; as a scientific group, ACSH seems to arrive at conclusions before conducting studies.

Center for Science in the Public Interest ( CSPI ) is a Washington, D. C .- based non-profit watchdog and consumer advocacy group focusing on nutritional education and awareness.

CSPI headquarters in Washington, D. C.

CSPI is a consumer advocacy organization.

In the early days, CSPI focused on various aspects such as nutrition, environmental issues, and nuclear energy.

However, after the 1977 departure of Fritsch and Sullivan, CSPI began to focus exclusively on nutrition and food safety.

CSPI has 501 ( c )( 3 ) status.

CSPI has advocated more accurately defined nutrition and food labeling.

Most recently, CSPI has focused on nutrition labeling at chain restaurants and has helped introduce menu labeling legislation in several U. S. cities and states.

In 1989, CSPI was instrumental in convincing fast-food restaurants to stop using animal fat for frying, promoting the use of trans fats instead.

In addition, CSPI has pressured alcoholic beverage companies with lawsuits.

From the mid-1990s onward, however, CSPI identified trans fats as the greater public health danger.

In response, three trade groups — the National Restaurant Association, the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers and the Institute of Shortening and Edible Oils — " said the evidence was contradictory and inconclusive, and accused CSPI of jumping to a premature conclusion.

A San Francisco Chronicle article identified CSPI as " one of two groups singled out the CCF for full-on attack ," and said, " What's not mentioned on the Web site is that it's one of a cluster of such nonprofits started ... by Berman.

George A. Hacker is an American lawyer who has headed the Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( CSPI ) for three decades.

He is the author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles on alcohol issues, and an author of several CSPI publications, including Last Call for High Risk Bar Promotions, State Alcohol Taxes and Health, Marketing Booze to Blacks, and The Booze Merchants.

* Center for Science in the Public Interest press release Bug-Based Food Dye Should Be ... Exterminated, Says CSPI

Other critics — such as the restaurant, food, and tobacco industry-funded Center for Consumer Freedom — refer to CSPI as " the Food Police ," and suggest its focus on food manufacturers and retailers distracts from " real culprits ... a lack of exercise and people's unwillingness to take personal responsibility for their own diets.

Competitors have included CSPI using Myrinet, and SKY Computers using InfiniBand.

* 1972 – Michael Sinterniklaas, French-American actor, screenwriter, and director

* 1980 – Michael Urie, American actor and director

* 1965 – Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director

* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director

Larry Steinbachek became the musical director for Michael Laub's theatre company, ' Remote Control Productions '.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

* 1886 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director ( d. 1962 )

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

Other notable film and television figures include Sarah Wayne Callies ( Prison Break ), Mindy Kaling ( The Office ), Emmy Award winner Michael Moriarty, Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush the director of Everything Must Go and Connie Britton of Spin City, The West Wing, and Friday Night Lights.

In collaboration with Studio 4C, American director Michael Arias released Tekkon Kinkreet in 2008, to international acclaim.

* 1943 – Michael Mann, American film director

* 1915 – Michael Relph, British film producer and director ( d. 2004 )

Michael Hayden ( general ) | Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA

Heathers brought director Michael Lehmann and producer Denise Di Novi the 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

The set contained an audio commentary with director Michael Lehmann, producer Denise Di Novi and writer Daniel Waters, a 30-minute documentary titled Swatch Dogs and Diet Cokeheads, featuring interviews with Ryder, Slater, Doherty, Falk, Lehmann, Waters, Di Novi, Director of Photography Francis Kenny and Editor Norman Hollyn.

Michael Anaganos, the school's director, asked former student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and only 20 years old, to become Keller's instructor.

* 1970 – Michael Showalter, American actor, writer, and director

* 1920 – Michael Anderson, English film director

John Michael Frankenheimer ( February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002 ) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action / suspense films.

In May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bay's birth mother.

The current music director and lead conductor of the symphony is Michael Stern.

* 1940 – Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American director

Michael Kenneth Mann ( born February 5, 1943 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.