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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Abbott Laboratories has announced a Similac recall affecting millions of containers of its best-selling infant formula as it may be contaminated with insect parts. The Similac recall affects about 5 million baby formulas sold in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and some Caribbean countries as well. It turns out the recalled formulas may contain small [...]

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With a name like VitaminWater it MUST be good for you, right?  Actually, it’s just non-carbonated fruit soda disguised as a sports drink. Late last week, a federal judge ruled that VitaminWater will not keep you “healthy as a horse,” as its label promises.  It won’t being about a “healthy state of physical or mental [...]

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Something to be aware of if you’re a parent…it looks like over 40 children’s medicines have been recalled here in the U.S., as well as 11 other countries, because the products don’t meet quality standards. McNeil Consumer Healthcare is recalling children’s Tylenol, Tylenol Plus, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl after discussing the matter with the FDA. [...]

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Nestle USA on Friday issued a voluntary recall of its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after several illnesses were reported by those who ate the raw dough. The company said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the CDC are both looking into reported E. coli illnesses that might be related to the ingestion [...]

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Be careful.  A new product recall has just hit the wires. Federal officials announced on Monday that a California processor is going to recall about 1,000,000 pounds of pistachio products because of a possible salmonella contamination. Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, located in Terra Bella, CA, decided on the pistachio recall after Kraft Foods discovered [...]

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