WASHINGTON, DC, January 21, 2009 (ENS) – A spreading concern about peanut butter products contaminated with salmonella has led Food and Drug Administration investigators to a processing plant in Georgia owned by Peanut Corporation of America. The federal agency has notified PCA that product samples originating from its Blakely, Georgia, processing plant have been tested…
WASHINGTON, DC, October 17, 2008 (ENS) – Chinese cookies found in Alabama stores have tested positive for high levels of the plastic melamine, triggering a demand from consumer organizations for a federal government ban on all food products from China containing milk proteins. The recent deaths of four infants and the illnesses of 53,000 other…
SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 10, 2008 (ENS) – The current mercury consumption guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may not take into account the damage done by exposure to low levels of mercury in fish, according to a new book by San Francisco physician Dr. Jane Hightower. “The problem is that we are…
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2008 (ENS) – Perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water at sites in at least 35 states, will not be regulated at the national level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided. The agency announced its preliminary decision not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water late Friday.…
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, August 6, 2008 (ENS) – The past week has ushered in the summer’s most sultry weather to date, but in our household, we like basic fresh air, unconditioned. So we use windows and fans when necessary. In 2007, our heat pump ran a total of 10 days the entire summer. Our total…
HARTFORD, Connecticut, August 3, 2008 (ENS) – Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the representations made by sunscreen manufacturers in their advertising and labeling are “dangerously misleading claims.” In response to a petition by Blumenthal, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year issued a new proposed rule to stop misleading claims by sunscreen manufacturers.…
HOUSTON, Texas, July 23, 2008 (ENS) – Chemical engineers at Rice University have developed techniques for converting the waste materials of biodiesel production into chemicals that can be sold at a profit. “Biodiesel producers used to sell their leftover glycerin, but the rapid increase in biodiesel production has left them paying to get rid of…
WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2008 (ENS) – Four days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its six-week long warning against eating raw tomatoes because they might be infected with a strain of salmonella bacterial known as Salmonella Saintpaul, the agency has found the same bacteria on a jalapeno pepper in Texas. The FDA…
WASHINGTON, DC, June 9, 2008 (ENS) – Since mid-April, there have been 145 reported cases of the illness salmonellosis nationwide linked to consumption of tomatoes, including at least 23 hospitalizations. States reporting illnesses linked to the outbreak include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and…
WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2008 (ENS) – The federal Food and Drug Administration has concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals, the agency announced today. There was…
WASHINGTON, DC, December 20, 2007 (ENS) – The two largest cloning companies in the United States said Wednesday that they will keep a registry of all their animals that will allow food companies to identify cloned animals when they move into the food processing chain. Trans Ova Genetics of Sioux Center, Iowa and ViaGen Inc.…