Federal regulators are coming under increasing pressure to reject a change to milk labels that is being sought by the dairy industry.

The public advocacy group SumOfUs.Org has taken out large ads to appear on buses in the Washington, D.C., region protesting a request to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take “low-calorie” labels off the front of flavored milk sweetened with artificial sugars.

"Hey, FDA, if the dairy industry gets its way, milk marketed to our kids will become more of an artificially-sweetened junk food. We don't want that!" the signs read.

Tuesday's Federal Register will list a bunch of upcoming advisory panel meetings across the country. Here they are:

On May 6, the Forest Service's advisory committee on two California counties will meet in Sonora, Calif., to discuss priorities in the wake of expected budget cuts. 

Agencies have a number of disparate rules and proposals to announce in upcoming days, from cotton markets to mortgage loan insurance. Here's what to expect:

Plants and Animals: 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is updating its rules to allow the department to collect information on cotton markets in Kansas and Virginia. 

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Facing stricter guidelines, banks will have to determine if it's worth continuing to offer the products.

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A bipartisan group of senators wants to give federal regulators greater oversight of compound pharmacies following bacterial contaminations nationwide that have killed at least 50 people and sickened hundreds more.

Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) released a draft bill on Friday to make the blurry regulatory lines surrounding the pharmacies more clear.

The Department of Justice is alleging that a global drug company spent millions of dollars to give kickbacks to doctors who pushed its prescriptions.

According to charges released on Friday, the government claims that from 2001 to 2011, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis spent millions convincing doctors to steer patients to the company's drugs by giving out expensive meals, fishing trips and visits to Hooters.

The company paid speakers to talk about its drugs, including hypertension and diabetes medication, at events that the department calls "nothing more than social occasions for the doctors." In some cases, the doctors either never gave the speeches, or gave brief presentations to small audiences, the lawsuit alleges.

On one occasion, the government charges that the company paid for a meal in West Des Moines, Iowa, that ran more than $1,000 per person.

The bill would tax all tobacco products at the same rate and hike taxes by 93 percent.