'Suspicious Powder' Turns Out As Seasoning
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The Plain Dealer received an envelope Saturday with suspicious powder and a letter that claimed the powder contained snail poison, but it was determined to be onion powder and other seasonings.
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A flavoring chemical from the products is linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers.
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By M. William Salganik, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 9--It began as not quite a mom-and-apple-pie idea. More of a mom-and-baby-powder idea.
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Dumpling delicacies stuffed with cardboard shreds and bogus rabies vaccines are the focus of the latest health scares in China, where an industrial solvent used in toothpaste was banned after a spate of global recalls.
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NEW YORK  - Many people believe the  sushi-seasoner wasabi clears their sinuses, but new research  presented this week suggests that the spicy green paste may do  the opposite.
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A depot allegedly linked with "contaminated" fuel launches an investigation into whether it is to blame.
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A suspicious white powder was found in a New York building occupied by the Daily News newspaper and the Associated Press on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
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Suspicious white powder has been found in an envelope that arrived at the U.S. embassy in Malaysia and three staff members quarantined, an embassy official and police said on Monday. "A letter was delivered that had a suspicious powder in it," said an embassy spokesman in Kuala Lumpur. "The powder is being sent for testing."
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Tests that determine whether toxic chemicals accumulate in food may be missing some hazardous materials and need to be updated, a Canadian researcher said Thursday.
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LYLE, Minn. - What seems to be a high school prank gone terribly wrong is getting no laughs from authorities. Collin Wayne Orth, a Lyle High School student, allegedly laced brownies with laxatives and served them to several students and school staff on Feb. 6.
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Tooth whitening kits are found to contain illegally high levels of the bleaching agent hydrogen peroxide in UK tests.
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Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
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SALT LAKE CITY - A suspicious package left outside a fast-food restaurant Wednesday turned out to be a trumpet that has sounded its last note.
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Life & style: Consumers being misled about the salt content of some processed foods, according to a new survey.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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A suspicious package with white powder found near media offices at United Nations headquarters on Friday turned out to be flour, according to preliminary tests, a U.N. spokesman said.
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More and more foods bear a mishmash of warnings that they might accidentally contain ingredients that could seriously sicken people with food allergies. Yet there are signs that the labels are creating confusion among families that should heed them &#151; even as new testing shows there is a real, if probably small, chance that foods with even the most vaguely worded warnings truly pose a risk.