By James Lane Juice Industry States Apple Juice is Safe: The Dr. Oz Show is Needlessly Concerning Consumers with Information Based on Improper Test Methods The Juice Products Association (JPA), the trade organization representing the juice products industry, says reports about arsenic in apple juice on the Dr. Oz Show are misleading. According to...
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By James Lane Jensen Farms recalls Rocky Ford cantaloupe due to potential link to a multi-state outbreak of listeriosis Fast Facts - The FDA is warning consumers not to eat Rocky Ford Cantaloupe shipped by Jensen Farms and to throw away recalled product that may still be in their home. - Jensen Farms is...
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Smoking cannabis from a pipe can significantly reduce chronic pain in patients with damaged nerves, a study suggests. A small study of 23 people also showed improvements with sleep and anxiety. Writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the researchers said larger studies using inhaler-type devices for cannabis were needed. UK experts said the...
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WASHINGTON — The outbreak of salmonella in eggs is energizing efforts to pass a long-stalled food-safety bill that could prevent or mitigate such problems, according to federal officials, congressional supporters and independent experts.The bill, designed to overhaul a fractured food-safety system that hasn’t been updated in decades, would expand federal regulators’ powers to police...
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A subsidiary of Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling 380,000 pounds of deli meats that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Zemco Industries of Buffalo, N.Y., sold the deli meats to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., who made them into Marketside Grab and Go sandwiches, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said. There...
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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — The White House says federally funded stem cell research should continue and is exploring how to respond to a judge’s order halting it. President Barack Obama, who last year ordered stem cell research expanded, “thinks that we need to do research, he put forward stringent ethical guidelines and he thinks...
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WASHINGTON — A massive recall of eggs possibly tainted with salmonella bacteria is now at more than half-a-billion and could grow, the top US food safety official said Monday. “It is the largest egg recall that we’ve had in recent history,” Margaret Hamburg, head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told NBC...
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Pakistan has been hit by massive floods that have been ongoing since the beginning of August. Current estimates are that over 15 million people have been directly affected. One -fifth of the country is underwater and the threat of further flooding continues. Humanitarian organizations are providing basics including clean water, medicine and shelter to...
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More than 15 million people are affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years, with at least 1,600 fatalities, according to estimates from the government of Pakistan. While the severity of their needs has not yet been fully assessed, the number is greater than those who were affected by the 2005 South Asia tsunami...
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Up to 1.5 million flood victims in Pakistan were being treated for a variety of ailments and conditions, including acute respiratory infections, diarrhea and skin infections, according to Maurizio Giuliano with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has called a Tuesday meeting of senior Pakistani health...
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