Category Archives: FDA

FDA wants limits on antibiotics given to animals

By doris | Published: April 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics given to farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are mixed with animal feed to help livestock, pigs and chickens put [...]

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Ammonia used in many foods, not just ‘pink slime’

By doris | Published: April 5, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub “pink slime.” What they may not have known is that ammonia – often associated with cleaning products – was cleared by U.S. health officials nearly 40 years ago [...]

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US warns of cancer-agent in Japan weight loss pills

By doris | Published: April 4, 2012

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned consumers not to take a product called “Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills” because they contain a suspected cancer-causing agent. The pills, advertised as promoting weight loss, are distributed by a company called Xiushentang and sold on popular web sites including Amazon.com, said [...]

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Salmonella in sushi may have sickened 90

By doris | Published: April 3, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnbc.msn.com Government health officials are investigating a growing outbreak of salmonella food poisoning possibly tied to restaurant sushi that may have sickened at least 90 people in 19 states and the District of Columbia. The outbreak of salmonella Bareilly that may have sent seven people to the hospital is mostly clustered on [...]

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Bugs in sterile drugs? Behind the shortage of critical meds

By doris | Published: April 1, 2012

Full Story at Vitals.msnb.msn.com In a move that highlights dilemmas plaguing the U.S. drug supply, federal regulators warned a major manufacturer about problems including bugs in vials of sterile drugs — insects, literally — the same day that health officials allowed the firm to ramp up scarce medications for kids with cancer. Food and Drug [...]

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FDA: Dissolvable tobacco better for health, but could lead to more users

By doris | Published: March 25, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) A Food and Drug Administration scientific advisory panel says dissolvable tobacco products could reduce health risks compared with smoking cigarettes. But the agency also warned the products have the potential to increase the overall number of tobacco users. Tobacco use claimed 6 million lives in 2011, report showsPICTURES: Shocking ads: [...]

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Diabetes, memory loss warnings added to statins

By doris | Published: February 29, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug administration announced the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such [...]

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‘Crisis’: Supplies of life-saving drug used to treat children could run out in 2 weeks

By doris | Published: February 11, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com How can a drug company run out of medicine because of quality concerns? They must have people checking everything that goes on in the company. Do you think it is like everything else it boils down to money. Cut back here cut back there and work the employees as much as [...]

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Dirty equipment blamed for deadly outbreak in cantaloupe

By doris | Published: October 19, 2011

Full Story a tmsnbc.msn.com Potentially contaminated processing equipment and problems with packing and storage of whole cantaloupes at a Colorado farm likely led to the deadliest listeria outbreak in the United States in 25 years, which has so far claimed 25 lives in a dozen states, federal health regulators said Wednesday. Pools of water on [...]

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Cantaloupe illnesses and deaths expected to rise

By doris | Published: September 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in coming weeks. So far, the outbreak has caused at least 72 illnesses — including up to 16 deaths — in 18 states, making it the deadliest [...]

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FDA to supervise three Tylenol plants

By doris | Published: March 11, 2011

Full Story at UPI.com WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) — The U.S. government announced it is taking over three Tylenol plants following recalls and a criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories. The Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department took action against Tylenol maker McNeil PPC and two of its executives — its [...]

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Companies stop shipping 7 caffeine-alcohol drinks

By doris | Published: November 25, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The manufacturers of seven caffeinated alcoholic beverages labeled a “public health concern” have stopped producing or shipping the products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. Last week, the FDA sent warning letters to four beverage makers saying the addition of caffeine to alcoholic beverages was not [...]

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Survivors of foodborne illness to demand action on bill

By doris | Published: September 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — After the recall of more than 500 million eggs from a salmonella outbreak this summer, food safety advocates and survivors of foodborne illness will call for the U.S. Senate to pass a bill that has been in limbo since last year. The groups will release a report Wednesday afternoon [...]

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Tylenol recall: FDA slams company

By doris | Published: January 16, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The maker of several over-the-counter drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, announced a broad-based recall of these and other drugs Friday after receiving complaints of an “unusual moldy, musty or mildew-like” odor. The recall drew the FDA’s wrath on Johnson and Johnson (JNJ, Fortune 500) for not [...]

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Salmonella Worries Prompt Pistachio Recall

By doris | Published: March 31, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (CBS/AP) A Central California company is recalling about 1 million pounds of pistachios over concerns of possible salmonella contamination. Food safety officials are looking through Setton Farms’ plant in rural Tulare County to see if it could lead them to the source of the contamination. The recalls began last Friday [...]

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Peanut Butter May Be Labeled High Risk

By doris | Published: February 15, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (CBS/AP) In the wake of a deadly salmonella outbreak, the government may designate peanut butter as a high-risk food, according to a top health official. Dr. Stephen Sundlof, the head of the FDA’s food safety center, told lawmakers that peanut butter may be singled out for special attention as agency [...]

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Peanut butter outbreak prompts tighter food safety

By doris | Published: February 12, 2009

Full Story At yahoo.com WASHINGTON – They say nothing is more wholesome than peanut butter, but the government may soon ask companies that make the gooey treat to prove it. The salmonella outbreak is starting to change the way the government oversees the safety of peanut butter and other foods, health officials tell Congress. Dr. [...]

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Cracking the poison processed peanuts case

By doris | Published: February 9, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com WASHINGTON – A century ago, at the dawn of food safety laws, inspection amounted to little more than opening a bin of flour and looking for something wiggly. It’s a different story now. Solving the case of the poison processed peanuts took marathon work by federal scientists, clues in Canada, Oregon, [...]

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FDA: Plant knowingly sold salmonella-laced food

By doris | Published: February 7, 2009

Full Stroy At Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – As far back as 2007, salmonella-laced products were shipped by a Georgia peanut company that knew the peanuts probably were tainted and sometimes after tests confirmed that contamination, inspection records show. Federal law forbids producing or shipping foods under conditions that could make it harmful to consumers’ health.

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