Food and Drug Administration

It's National Donut Day but Otherwise a Bad Week for Sweet Things

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Nutrition, Michael Bloomberg, Crops, Corn Refiners Association, Corn, Agriculture, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Sugar, Food, Subsidies, Obesity, Food and Drug Administration, New York, Hfcs, Green News

Americans have traditionally loved sweet things. Think about it. You can't get any more American than a sweet slice of apple pie.

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20 Years of GMO Policy That Keeps Americans in the Dark About Their Food

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Gmos, Michael Taylor, Dan Quayle, Genetically Engineered Foods, Fda, GMO Labeling, Food and Drug Administration, Genetically Modified Foods, Label GMOs, California Right to Know 2012 Campaign, Green News

Clearly, Americans believe strongly in their right to know what's in their food. Ninety percent of U.S. voters want this type of labeling. Yet we still don't have it. Why?

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SHOCK: The Cigarette Brand That Teenagers Love

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Video, Smoking, Ciggarettes, Newport, Business News, Camel, Cigarette Warnings, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Cigarette Smoking, Study, Business News

Which tobacco brand is increasing its cigarette sales among youngsters? Camel gained over 20 percent more market share among 12-17 year olds and o...

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Is Mercury in Fish as Harmful as You Thought?

EatingWell | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Mercury, Healthy Eating, Eating Well, Mercury Poisoning, Seafood, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Fda, Food News

The fact that most ocean fish are so high in selenium explains why more and more research suggests the benefits of eating seafood outweigh any risks mercury exposure could pose. Do I (and you) really need to be avoiding those fish?

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Nestle Purina Under Fire For Treats Linked With Dog Deaths

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: FDA Recall, Jerky Dog Death, Dog Health, FDA Pets, Dog Jerky, Dog Treats, Fda, Jerky, Video, FDA Pet Relations, Nestle Purina, Pet Concerns, Pet Health, Food, Dog Death, Food and Drug Administration, Dogs, Pet Death, FDA Pet Recall, Food News

When Terry Safranek's nine-year-old fox terrier became violently ill after consuming Nestle Purina PetCare Co. jerky and died in mid-January, she laun...

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BPA Is FDA's Latest Gift to Food Industry

Michele Simon | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Bpa, Fda, Infant Formula, Bpa Baby Bottles, Food Politics, Food and Drug Administration, Obama Administration, Bpa Ban, Food News

If FDA admits the chemical is scary enough to avoid and previous independent scientific advisory panels have derided the agency for ignoring the mounting evidence, why did the agency back down yet again?

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Lethal injection drug access could put executions on hold

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Beuthanasia, Potassium Chloride, Social Issues, Pancuronium, Capital Punishment, Medical, Lethal Injection, General Anesthetics, Health, Sodium Thiopental, Barbiturates, Anticonvulsants, Food and Drug Administration, Pharma, Pentobarbital, Politics News

By Kimberly Leonard, iWatch NewsA federal judge's decision to block imports of a drug used in executions will leave states to rely more on a substit...

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FDA to Consumers: We're Still Thinking About It; Sorry You're Still Eating It

Gina Solomon | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Food Safety, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Food Cans, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Bpa Controversy, Bpa Announcement, Green News

FDA is kicking the BPA-lined can further down the road in an announcement last week that the Administration plans to keep studying this issue while consumers continue to be exposed.

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Chemical Marketplace: The Fine Print on a Common Pesticide, Writ Large

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.27.2012

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...

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Firm That Held Perry's Stem Cells May Be Probed By FDA

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Texas, Video, Rick Perry Stem Cells, Gov. Rick Perry, Stem Cells, Rick Perry FDA, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Rick Perry, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has received a complaint against a company that stored adult stem cells from Texas Governor Rick Perry ...

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The Chemical Marketplace: Revisiting BPA and PFOA

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Perfluorooctanoic Acid, Bisphenol A, Microwave Popcorn, Chemicals, Consumer Products, Pfoa, Bpa, Plastic, Food and Drug Administration, Green News

The thing that has made bisphenol A so controversial is the fact that it is used in plastic containers and plastic bottles and the linings of tin cans. But lo and behold there has been some good news on that front.

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BUZZ KILL: FDA To Investigate Inhalable Caffeine

AP | RODRIQUE NGOWI | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Inhalable Caffeine, FDA Cigarettes, FDA Inhalable Caffeine, Aeroshot, Video, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Technology News

BOSTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for...

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FDA Staffers Sue Agency Over Surveillance Of Personal E-mail

The Washington Post | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Freedom of Information Act, Robert C. Smith, Erica Jefferson, Fda, U.S. District Court, Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Technology News

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that t...

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Why Are Kids Suddenly So Sick?

Allen Frances | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Food and Drug Administration, Drug Companies, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Dsm-V, Children's Health, Dsm V, Dsm Iv, Child Psychiatry, Healthy Living News

Giving a name to difficult problems that are poorly understood provides a kind of false comfort, but the label often doesn't really add to the understanding and may carry risks of its own -- especially unnecessary treatment, stigma and wasted resources.

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Trans Fat: Hiding In Plain Sight

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: American Heart Association, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Trans Fat, Trans Fats, Trans Fat Ban, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Cspi, Slidepollajax, Trans Fats Foods, Trans Fats Food, Bad Fats, Trans Saturated Fats, Diet and Nutrition, Healthy New Year, Saturated Fats, Healthy Living News

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to get rid of partially hydrogenated oil altogether. In the meantime, avoid products like these.

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Bottles Of Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin And Gas-X Recalled

AP | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Nodoz, Novartis Recalls, Food and Drug Administration, Excedrin, Bufferin, Gas-X, Business News

BASEL, Switzerland -- Novartis is recalling some bottles of Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin and Gas-X Sunday over concerns that the bottles could contain st...

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Three Men Allegedly Peddling Stem Cell 'Miracle Cure' Arrested

Reuters | Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Francisco Morales, San Antonio, Fbi, Brownsville, Del Rio, Fda, Alberto Ramon, Lawrence Stowe, Texas, Video, Medical University of South Carolina, Reuters, Vincent Dammai, Stem Cell Research, Food and Drug Administration, Crime News

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO , Jan 2 (Reuters) - Three men were arrested and a fourth is being sought by the FBI in what investigators sa...

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FDA Warned French Firm About Breast Implant Safety Issues In 2000

Reuters | Anna Yukhananov | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Jean-Claude Mas, Video, Yves Haddad, Reuters, Breast Implants, Saline Implants, Breast Implant Safety, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Poly Implant Prothese, Healthy Living News

By Anna Yukhananov WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As early as 2000, U.S. health authorities raised concerns about the French breast implant make...

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Sperm Donor Faces Fed Warning For Unconventional Methods

AP | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Video, Trent Arsenault, Crime, Sperm Donation, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Freemont, California Crime, Crime News

ASSOCIATED PRESS FREMONT, Calif. -- Federal officials have issued a warning to a California man who has been donating cups of his sperm to women wh...

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Is This Man A Sperm Bank Or A Sex Partner?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Free Sperm, Sperm Bank, Sperm Donors, Video, Trent Arsenault, Free Sperm Donor Registry, Lesbian, What Is a Sperm Bank, Getting Pregnant, Fertility, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Gay Voices News

Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration hand-delivered an order to cease manufacturing to a seemingly unremarkable recipient, a soft-spoken, 36-ye...

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Plan B Controversy: What Do Small Pharmacies Think?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Emergency Contraception, Small Business News and Trends, Contraception, Plan B, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services, Pharmaceuticals, Small Business News

In a surprising move, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overturned Wednesday's ruling by the Food and Drug Administration tha...

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Do You Know Where Your Turkey's Been?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Holidays, Green Holiday, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Factory Farms, The Infection Loop, Fda, Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Food, Mrsa, Superbugs, Turkey Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Antibiotics, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Green News

As families across America adorn their dinner tables with plump, juicy turkeys this Thursday, they've likely given little thought to what their future...

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Fighting to Sell Junk Food to Kids: Really, Grocery Manufacturers? That's Your Highest Priority?

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Junk Food, Junk Food Ads, Junk Food Marketing, Obesity, Food and Drug Administration, Childhood Obesity, Grocery Manufacturers and Junk Food, Kids and Junk Food, Health News, Marketing Junk Food to Kids, Healthy Living News

The food industry's single biggest priority is preserving its ability to market junk food to young kids. If you don't believe me, ask the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

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1,200 Retailers Cited For Violating Tobacco Rules

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Tobacco Regulations, Center for Tobacco Products, Tobacco Sales, Video, Fda Regulations, Lawrence Deyton, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco Products, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it has issued about 1,200 warning letters to retailers in 15 states for violating...

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FDA Warns School Lunch Supplier For Unsafely Repackaging Moldy Applesauce

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Snokist Applesauce, Video, Contaminated Food, School Applesauce, US Food and Drug Administration, Applesauce, Snokist Growers, Food Safety, Fda, School Lunches, Contaminated School Food, School Lunch, School Food Safety, Education News

Federal officials are investigating a school lunch supplier for repackaging applesauce containing potentially dangerous, multi-colored molds. Food ...

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