Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is a Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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-based non-profit

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 watchdog

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 and consumer advocacy group

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 focusing on nutritional education and awareness.
CSPI is a consumer advocacy organization. Its focus is nutrition and health, food safety, and alcohol policy. CSPI is headed by Michael F. Jacobson

Michael F. Jacobson

Michael F. Jacobson , who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest in 1971, along with two fellow scientists he met while working at the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. When his colleagues left CSPI in...

, who founded the group in 1971 along with James Sullivan and Albert Fritsch, two fellow scientists from Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader

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's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.