Food and Drug Safety

Moms-To-Be: Are You Taking This Dangerous Drug?

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, Food and Drug Safety, Babies, Personal Health, Topamax Effects, Topamax Drug, Topamax Side Effects, Home News
Martha Rosenberg

Americans are getting used to the withdrawal or severe restriction of drugs "previously thought safe."

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I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall

Scott Dodd | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Personal Health, Books, The New York Times, Email, Omnivore's Dilemma, Fresh Direct, Fda, Eating Local, Peanut Butter, New York City, Michael Pollan, Bush Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Health, Grocery Stores, Fast Food Nation, Eating Locally, The Omnivore's Dilemma, New York Times, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Butter Recall, Healthy Living News
Scott Dodd

I can't say that I was in the dark when I bought my honey-roasted peanut butter last week, but like so many people, I had the impression that someone was looking out for me.

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FDA Is Considering More Specific Food Allergy Warning Labels

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Politics, Politics of Food, Green, Green News, Food Allergy Warnings, Food Allergy Labels, Food Allergy, Fda, Fda Approval, Food, Processed Food, Food and Drug Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Green News

WASHINGTON — It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contai...

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Something Is (Still) Rotten In Food Oversight

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmonella Tomatoes, Food and Drug Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Tomatoes, Florida Tomatoes, E.Coli, Politics News
Al Meyerhoff

From spinach to tomatoes, E.coli to salmonella, despite public uproar, congressional hearings and industry promises, nothing really has changed but the bug and the vegetable (fruit actually).

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Sam Stein

Bush Veto Could Threaten Food Safety For Millions

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, FDA Mismanagement, Food and Drug Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Bush Veto, Politics News

In the wake of a scathing report detailing the dangerously poor state of the Food and Drug Administration, one lawmaker is calling on President Bush t...

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