Many products, like cigarettes and medications, are stamped with warning labels alerting consumers to their risks. Common sense suggests these warnings will encourage safer choices. But now Dr. Yael Steinhart of Tel Aviv University's ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Cigarettes
Black Lab, LLC, a custom blender of granular and aggregate materials for industrial applications, has significantly extended the shelf life of its products while safeguarding product quality by converting to an advanced valve bag packaging ...
Tags: Industrial Bags, Packaging
In 2013, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that more than 500 people were sickened by seven strains of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to chicken. However, salmonellosis caused by Salmonella Heidelberg is only ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Health, Medicine
Pictures of diseased lungs and other types of graphic warning labels on cigarette packs could cut the number of smokers in the United States by as much as 8.6 million people and save millions of lives, a new study suggests. Researchers ...
Tags: pictures of diseased lungs, graphic warning labels on cigarette packs
The possible blue light hazards in LEDs on the eyes have become a hot global topic. The expanding application field for LED lighting has raised consumer awareness towards the possible risks of blue LEDs. In order to clarify the consumers ...
Tags: Blue Light Use, LED package
A research paper published in the scientific journal Tobacco Control shows that graphic warning labels on cigarette packs led to a decrease in smoking rates in Canada of between 12% and 20% from 2000 to 2009. The authors estimate that if ...
The statistics can be staggering: one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year (that's nearly 53 million people). A very likely place for food poisoning is in the home: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Thermochromic inks manufacturer Chromatic Technologies (CTI) has developed new package indicators known as ‘reveal inks’ in an effort to reduce illness caused by food poisoning. The package indicators are said to provide ...
Chromatic Technologies (CTI), a manufacturer of thermochromic inks, has unveiled a patent-pending package indicator - ‘reveal inks,’ which provide 'return to fridge' reminders to products such as milk, yogurt, salsa, pickles and ...
U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would help consumers distinguish between dietary supplements that are safe and those that have potentially serious side-effects or drug ...
Tags: Supplements Labels, Medicine, Packaging, Printing
Now you don't have to depend on the store clerk at the health food store to help you compare and choose a dietary supplement. A free online database launched this week let's you check the label and browse the ingredients and claims of brand ...
New sunscreen requirements from the Food and Drug Administration may make it easier for you to understand what you're buying. Before you shop for sunscreen, understand the terms you might find on packages and check our new sunscreen ...
Tags: Sunscreen Labels, Labels
A new study on peanut allergy, which is being conducted at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, is expected to make food warning labels clearer for consumers in the UK. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) had commissioned the trial, and ...
Tags: Food Labeling, New Peanut
Yuba Bicycles is working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission on a recall affecting about 1,000 Mundo V4.0 cargo bikes after reports of two passengers on the back of the bike getting their feet caught in the rear wheel. No injuries ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) celebrates the nation's longest running public health campaign: National Poison Prevention Week (NPPW), from March 17 to 23, 2013. As a longtime supporter of NPPW, one of the CPSC's ...
Tags: Poison Prevention Efforts, Packaging, NPPW