Pin ItemailprintIf you take oral contraceptives, you’d better listen up, lest you soon hear the pitter-patter of little feet. Pfizer is recalling 1 million packets of birth controls pills due to a packaging error that could increase the risk of pregnancy. Apparently, the dosages in the pills could be off. The affected pills are 14 [...]
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Coca-Cola revealed today that it told the Food and Drug Administration that some of its orange juice had been made with produce sprayed with a fungicide in Brazil that wasn’t registered for use here in the U.S. “As a responsible company, we always strive to do the right thing and comply with all laws and [...]
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Here’s an important consumer alert you should know about. Drug maker Novartis is recalling some bottles of Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin, and Gas-X amid concerns that the bottles may contain stray pills from other medicines. Novartis recently announced that it was halting production at its Lincoln, Nebraska plant for “maintenance and other improvement activities.” The Swiss [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration says Trent Arsenault, a California man who has fathered 14 children via his online sperm donation website, is breaking the law. They’re now trying to stop him from donating any more sperm. The FDA says Arsenault, a resident of Fremont, California, is a “manufacturer of human cells,” since he’s fathered 14 [...]
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Here’s something unsettling. Arsenic levels found in some apple juice and grape juice samples tested higher than what’s considered to be safe, according to a study by Consumer Reports. The new study found that 10 percent of the juices that were sampled contained arsenic levels higher than the 10 parts per billion regulation for drinking [...]
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The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration today revoked the approval of the drug Avastin as a treatment for breast cancer. The FDA commissioner, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, said that the drug was not doing anything to help breast cancer patients live longer, nor was it controlling their tumors. It did, however, expose them to [...]
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The lettuce recall due to Listeria fears may be somewhat worse than initially thought, and now the California farm that first issued the lettuce recall says its notice has gone out to 19 states and Canada. Originally, True Leaf Farms of Salinas announced a recall of 90 cartons of romaine lettuce shipped to an Oregon [...]
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Be careful with your cantaloupe! Health officials now warn that up to 16 people have died from a possible listeria outbreak traced to cantaloupes from Colorado, the deadliest food outbreak in over ten years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that 72 illnesses, including 13 deaths, are probably connected to the bad [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration is taking drastic measures to curb cigarette smoking in America. Today, the FDA released nine, new graphic warning labels for cigarette packages. These are the new cigarette warning labels in more than ten years. The new warnings, which underscore the negative health impact of smoking, are required to cover at [...]
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Some big changes are in store for the sunscreen industry, and manufacturers will no longer be able to claim that their sunscreen is “waterproof”. After 33 years of consideration, the Food and Drug Administration unveiled new rules yesterday that specify which lotions provide the best protection against the sun and ending claims that they’re waterproof. [...]
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If you’ve got any Tylenol lying around the house, you may want to take a look at this. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has announced a voluntary recall of one of its over-the-counter Tylenol products. In a statement, the company says it’s recalling one product lot of 8-hour, extended-release caplets due [...]
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