Food Drug Administration
| 4:15PM 9/08/2010
Quong Hop & Co., a San-Francisco-based maker of the Soy Deli, Soy Fresh and Raquel's brands of tofu and hummus, has been reprimanded yet again by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for failing to appropriately sanitize its manufacturing facility. The tofu and hummus maker was warned that it...
| 5:30PM 9/07/2010
The makers of Lipton and Canada Dry were sent warnings by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that the claims they've been making about the health benefits of green tea products are violating federal laws.
Unilever, which owns the Lipton brand, and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, owner of Canada Dry,...
| 2:35PM 8/12/2010
Ben & Jerry's should stop misleading consumers that its ice cream is "all natural" when it is made using synthetic vanilla, corn syrup and alkalized cocoa -- among other ingredients "not found in nature," the Center for Science in the Public Interest said.
At least 48 out of 53 Ben &...
| 6:00AM 7/28/2010
All epilepsy drugs carry a warning about an increased risk of suicidal behavior, but only certain newer medications could be connected to the hazard, a newly published study suggests.
In a study of 44,300 UK patients who used epilepsy drugs between 1990 and 2005, researchers found an increased...
| 7:30AM 7/20/2010
The FDA has long banned interstate sales of raw milk, and many states restrict or prohibit the sale of raw milk entirely. After several crackdowns by federal and state agencies, raw milk drinkers are fighting back.
| 5:30PM 9/29/2009
Just when GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was set for U.S. Food & Drug Administration approval of its cervical cancer vaccine, tragedy struck in the United Kingdom. Natalie Morton, a 14-year-old British girl, died Monday a few hours after receiving the vaccine, called Cervarix. On Tuesday, the FDA...