Perchlorate Levels in Food Safe for Most, FDA Says
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Levels of a chemical used to make rocket fuel found in commonly consumed food are not high enough to pose a health risk to most people, including children and pregnant women, U.S. regulators said.
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Life & style: As food additives are again been linked to hyperactivity in children, Rosalind Ryan asks which of the e-numbers is causing the most concern.
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Some levels of rocket fuel pollution are safe, but not as much as industry had argued, a National Academy of Sciences committee said on Monday.
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For the first time, manufacturers of vitamins, herbal pills and other dietary supplements will have to test all of their products' ingredients. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it is phasing in a new rule that is designed to address concerns that existing regulations allowed supplements onto the market that were contaminated or didn't contain ingredients claimed on the label.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is ordering all drugmakers to add the government&#39;s strongest safety alert to all antidepressants.
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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.
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WASHINGTON - About two-thirds of Food and Drug Administration scientists are less than fully confident in the agency&#39;s monitoring of the safety of prescription drugs now being sold, according to an FDA internal survey.
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The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that fish and other foods and dietary supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids can claim on their labels that they help reduce the risk of
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A mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines does not raise the risk of neurological problems in children, concludes a large federal study that researchers say should reassure parents about the safety of shots their kids received a decade or more ago.
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Some cans of hot dog chili sauce sold under various brand names may be contaminated with the bacteria that causes botulism and should not be eaten, the Food and Drug Administration warned on Wednesday.
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Food colouring Red 2G (E 128), which is added to some breakfast sausages and burger meat, may cause cancer, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said on Monday as it reviewed food additives used in the European Union.
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Researchers are urging the US Food and Drug Administration to lower the mercury level in commercial fish. In a study on canned fish published in this month&#39;s Journal of Food Science
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WASHINGTON Sept. 20, 2004 - The Food and Drug Administration on Monday recommended changes aimed at reducing by one-third the salmonella infections caused each year by tainted eggs.
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Europe's leading food safety agency  advised consumers on Friday that eating rice with trace amounts  of an unauthorised genetically modified (GMO) strain was  unlikely to pose a health risk to humans or animals.
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WASHINGTON - All antidepressants must carry a "black box" warning, the government's strongest safety alert, linking the drugs to increased suicidal thoughts and behavior among children and teens taking them, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.    Because the warnings are primarily seen by doctors, the agency also is creating a medication guide for patients to advise them of the risk...
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Chicken jerky products for dogs may be making some pets ill, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Wednesday.
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US Department of Agriculture officials and Central Oregon ranchers said on Thursday that the nation&#39;s supply of beef is safe, despite news that a government screening process recently detected