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Hey Guy, Toxic Shampoo Is Bad for You Too!

Janet Nudelman | Posted 05.21.2013 | Green
Janet Nudelman

Our nation's safety regulations for cosmetics and personal care products are stuck in a rose-colored era that is light years away from the reality of our lives today.

Key Food Safety Regulations Delayed Again

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

Is the Food and Drug Administration ever going to finalize the regulations mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act? We have to assume it will...

Mothers of Pure Food, Rebirthing a Movement

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Elizabeth Kucinich

This Mother's Day, let us remember mothers and women who understood the patriotic nature of standing up for wholesome food, of standing up for the health of young children who would become our future.

FDA Approves New COPD Treatment

Reuters | Posted 05.10.2013 | Healthy Living

(Updates with details, share price) By Toni Clarke May 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approve...

Whole Foods Makes BIG Mistake

AP | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market Inc. said Thursday that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version of the salad were reversed at some ...

Off The Market?

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.09.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Food and Drug Administration investigation into the safety of caffeine-added foods has prompted Wrigley to take its new caffeina...

Wrigley Caffeinated Gum Pulled As FDA Investigates

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 05.10.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON -- Wrigley says it is taking a new caffeinated gum off the market temporarily as the Food and Drug Administration investigates the safety o...

Catch of the Day: Transgenic Salmon? Not So Fast

OnEarth | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green
OnEarth

By Jocelyn C. Zuckerman, OnEarth Today marks the deadline for public comments on a genetically modified salmon currently under review by the Food and ...

The EPA Opens a New Review of Handsoap, But Government Study Goes on for Decades

Paul Alexander | Posted 05.03.2013 | Green
Paul Alexander

Just Thursday, the Associated Press reported that FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Yao said evaluating triclosan is "one of the highest priorities" for the agency. Maybe, but a look at the history of the way the FDA and EPA have studied the substance suggests otherwise.

The Patient Choice Act - Providing Choice Instead of Death

Jonathan Agin | Posted 05.03.2013 | Impact
Jonathan Agin

As time went by during my daughter Alexis' long thirty-three month battle, we found out that her tumor was growing. We found ourselves in Manhattan seeking to gain enrollment in what looked to be a potentially promising trial. But after preliminary tests we were told that Alexis was ineligible.

Plan B's Plan B

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Chris Weigant

The Obama administration is trying to have it both ways on the "morning after" pill, and by doing so is taking a firm anti-scientific stand for irrationality. But Obama promised us all, in his first campaign, to do away with having politics dictate federal scientific policy.

DOJ To Appeal Order On Morning-After Pill Age Limits

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

One day after the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision to lower the age for over-the-counter birth control access, the Department O...

When Will the FDA Stand Up to Big Tobacco?

Michele Simon | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Michele Simon

You might also think that debates over having tobacco industry representatives involved in public health decision-making would be a thing of the past, but not so.

Whack-a-Mole Budgeting

Scott Lilly | Posted 04.26.2013 | Politics
Scott Lilly

The preposterous legislative sideshow taking place around sequestration gives a pretty clear picture of how little the people who were elected to run the government actually know about it.

Don't Let Food Safety Reform Go Down the Disposal

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 04.27.2013 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

While many worthy policies and programs need funding, it's hard to think of any more universally necessary than protecting our nation's food supply. The sequestration means, however, the FDA will be forced to reduce the number of inspections it conducts.

The Future of Biotechnology: The Hidden Costs of Hesitation

The European Magazine | Posted 04.25.2013 | Science
The European Magazine

We are quick to discuss the negative and unintended consequences of new medical technologies, but could it be that we are killing more people by increasing the cost and time to market of drugs than we are saving through careful, meticulous oversight?

Joe Satran

FDA 'Unlawfully Withheld' Long-Delayed Food Safety Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Joe Satran | Posted 04.23.2013 | Politics

The Food and Drug Administration has officially broken the law by failing to release regulations needed to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act...

How We Won the Fight on the Morning-After Pill

Jenny F. Brown | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Jenny F. Brown

We didn't want full access to the morning-after pill because we live in fear, we wanted full access because the results of medical advances should be in our hands -- the birthright of every woman and girl.

Protecting Our Children From Bioterrorism Requires Testing Of Anthrax Vaccine

Tia Powell | Posted 04.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Tia Powell

Last month, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a thoughtful report recommending against studying the anthrax vaccine in children. I might have agreed, had I not spent a year co-chairing an IOM report on protecting the public from a deadly anthrax attack.

An Interview with Melanie Warner of Pandora's Lunchbox

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 04.16.2013 | Books
Bettina Elias Siegel

"On occasions when they ask why they can't have Cheetos, Froot Loops or yogurt in a tube I tell them it's because these things aren't real food. They taste good, but they don't help their bodies grow strong or give them big muscles."

Small Farms Fight Back: Food and Community Self-Governance

Beverly Bell | Posted 04.15.2013 | Green
Beverly Bell

Blue Hill is one of a handful of small Maine towns that have been taking bold steps to protect their local food system. In 2011, they passed an ordinance exempting their local farmers and food producers from federal and state licensure requirements when these farmers sell directly to customers.

Eat-In at the FDA

Ben Droz | Posted 04.10.2013 | DC
Ben Droz

Whatever your thoughts on GMO foods or GMO fish, whether you eat them or avoid them, please take action. f you don't, the FDA will continue to spend American tax dollars asking the wrong questions.

FDA Approves Return Of Drug For Morning Sickness

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 04.09.2013 | Parents

WASHINGTON — Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the on...

Celiac Disease and Drug Labeling: Is Your Medication Gluten-Free?

Whitney Caudill | Posted 04.03.2013 | Healthy Living
Whitney Caudill

To be certain a drug does not contain gluten patients with CD, non-celiac gluten sensitivities, or wheat allergies must make multiple phone calls, perform Internet searches, and/or have the pharmacist review the package insert with them.

Ruminations on Aspartame and Milk

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.01.2013 | Healthy Living
David Katz, M.D.

Little rumination is required to reach this conclusion: Cows don't make aspartame. But they don't make strawberry flavoring, either. This is relevant to a debate that involves a petition by the dairy industry to the FDA to change what qualifies as milk.