A conversation with Charles Platkin at 12:30 p.m. on The Wisdom of 90 Years: Dr. Marion Nestle on Food and Living Your Best Life. Registration is here.

Remember that paper in the Lancet I discussed a bit ago–the one about food additives and hyperactivity? It’s being taken so seriously that the New York State Assembly Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Developmental Disabilities is holding a hearing on it on October 30. If you have strong feelings about the relationship of food additives to hyperactivity in kids, here’s your chance to get them heard.