Editor's note: One of our Food Safety News Christmas traditions is to annually recognize those who have been "naughty" and those who have been "nice" – from a strictly food safety perspective, of course. This year, we've opted to ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
Doctors in the U.S. military are still dispensing an anti-malaria drug federal regulators say can cause brain damage. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new black-box warning for mefloquine that hallucinations are a ...
Two published studies and an accompanying editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine say there is no clear benefit for most to consume vitamin supplements. Eliseo Guallar of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in ...
A meeting of the Legislative and Governance Forum on Food Regulation (the Forum) has decided there needs to be a monitoring system to track the effectiveness of the proposed Front-of-Pack Labelling (FoPL) system for food. The meeting, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A new rule to protect the nation's food supply from terrorism has been introduced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced Friday. The proposed rule would require the largest food businesses in the United States and ...
Despite the transformative impact that shale gas has had on the outlook of US energy markets, the European landscape regarding shale gas is very mixed and markets should exercise caution as multiple issues may slow progress, according to a ...
E-cigarette as relative effective way of quitting smoking has obtained follower. As a complicated quit-smoking product, ecigarette gains increasing research support. Western countries' Ministry of Public Health declared that current ...
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For the week ending Dec. 14, U.S. influenza increased nationwide, but Texas was hard hit with more than a dozen critically ill and six dead, officials say. The influenza strain H1N1 -- the same strain that caused the 2009 pandemic -- ...
Naturepedic co-founder Barry Cik is among the founders of a new coalition formed to press Congress to modernize the nation's chemical safety laws. The coalition,Companies for Safer Chemicals,will make a business argument for strong ...
The U.S Food and Drug Administration has filed its rule on intentional adulteration under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), keeping to a court-ordered deadline of Dec. 20. "Focused Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Completely banning tobacco use inside the home -- or an entire city -- boosts the odds of smokers cutting back or quitting tobacco, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Wael K. Al-Delaimy, professor and chief of the Division of Global Health in the ...
Tags: smoking bans, health
In a new issue of the American Journal of Public Health, researchers and experts investigate the latest methods and practices in improving birth outcomes. The special issue compiles a collection of commentaries, research studies and ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, breastfeeding
In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
Two published studies and an accompanying editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine say there is no clear benefit for most to consume vitamin supplements. Eliseo Guallar of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in ...
Tags: dietary supplements, eating plan, disease
The United States has one of the most advanced economies yet has one of the most inefficient healthcare systems, a study by U.S. and Canadian researchers found. Dr. Jody Heymann, the study's senior author and dean of the University of ...