10 May 2024 --- The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is suing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accusing the agency of failing to act on a 2021 regulatory petition asking the FDA to protect consumers from poppy seeds contaminated with alleged dangerous levels of opiates. CSPI petitioned the FDA in February 2021 with six families impacted by contaminated poppy seeds and two medical experts, asking the agency to set a maximum threshold for opiate contamination and to establish controls on imported poppy seeds.
