Cargill Value Added Meats Retail recalls about 36 million pounds of chubbed, trayed, pouched and bulk-packed ground turkey possibly contaminated with salmonella Heidelberg – a drug resistant strain. Company yanks all fresh frozen ground turkey products produced at its Springdale, »
“Rather than continuing to modify the 35-year-old 510(k) process… FDA’s finite resources would be better invested in developing an integrated premarket and post-market regulatory framework that provides a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness throughout the device life cycle,” concludes »
You’ve got until September 26, 2011 to comment on a proposed new regulation from The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that will mandate testing for the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) “in the vicinity of expected BPA releases to determine »
PepsiCo is working on the 2012 debut of a PET bottle made entirely of botanical feedstocks such as switch grass, orange peels and potato peels, the latter two being byproducts of the company’s Tropicana orange juice production and Lays potato »
Cereal boxes cause cancer? Health authorities are downplaying European press reports to that effect after Swiss researchers found mineral oil in some recycled paperboard cartons. Researchers found “that the limit considered safe for mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) (0.6 mg/kg), »
Tesco, the British supermarket chain, is adopting the Zork resealable low-density polyethylene closure for some of its wines. Contrary to what the following report indicates, the resealable closure has been used outside of Australia before this. Several California wines – »
Reports continue to circulate that one or the other company has developed a protective coating for can linings that doesn’t incorporate bisphenol A. The latest dispatch comes from foodproductiondaily.com (below). The developer they’ve ID’d is Jacksonville, FL-based Design Analysis Inc. »
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a constituent in epoxy coatings used as liners for food and beverage cans and some metal closures. While BPA has been used safely for 50 years or so, it has recently come under fire as a »
Columbus, Ohio hospital study finds that 40% of children admitted to ERs with injuries from household cleaning products are traceable to products in non-child resistant bottles, sprayers. Data such as that developed by Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH, has, »
Study clearing BPA: Ignored because it won’t sell newspapers?
If Nancy Grace were focused on good news, she’d call it a “bombshell” – What Professor Richard Sharpe, Principal Investigator at the Independent Medical Research Center’s Center for Reproductive Health in Britain calls a “majestically scientific” study concluding that BPA »