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Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store (AP)

Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Your eyes are not deceiving you in the grocery store. Yes, your bag of Doritos just got bigger. No, the price didn't change.


Crusading NY health chief picked to head CDC (AP)

Crusading NY health chief picked to head CDC

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New Yorkers couldn't smoke in bars or eat french fries cooked in artery-clogging ...


Private inspections of food companies seen as weak (AP)

Private inspections of food companies seen as weak

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry.





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Buying local isn't always better for the environment

Buying local isn't always better for the environment

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shopping locally may not be as good for the environment as having food delivered, according to new research by the University of Exeter (UK). Published in the journal Food Policy, the study ...


FDA cracks down on ibuprofen pain relief gels

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings to eight companies for illegally marketing pain relief ointments containing ibuprofen.


Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud (AP)

Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws.


Nutritious fast-food kids' meals are scarce, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only 3 percent of kids' meals served at fast-food restaurants met federal dietary guidelines in the first study to examine the nutrient quality of such meals in a major U.S. metropolitan market.


SKorean firms recall asbestos-tainted baby powder

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Three South Korean manufacturers said Thursday they are recalling baby powder products after health authorities announced that they contain cancer-causing asbestos.


Field of germs: Food safety is in farm worker's hands

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean ...


Nanoparticles could pose threat to humans: scientists

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 16

They can make fabric resistant to stains, improve the taste of food and help drug research, but nanoparticles could also pose a danger to human health, experts warned Wednesday.


Should companies with unhealthy products be regulated to protect health?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Should businesses that sell products which are responsible for a huge numbers of deaths, illness and injury, such as tobacco and junk food, be held accountable and made to improve public health? Two experts debate the issue ...


FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.


Experts argue nano food-additives require new oversight

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanotechnology policy experts are urging that food additives that contain nanoscale materials be subject to new safety testing to ensure that their use does not pose unintended risks.



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