In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
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| Oct 1, 2012 |
''Peanut Butter Recall Linked to Salmonella Illnesses Now Includes Major Retailers'' WASHINGTON — A New Mexico company has expanded its recall of peanut butter and almond butter to include cashew butters, tahini and blanched and roasted peanut products. In addition to Trader Joe's, the recall includes nut products sold at Whole Foods Market, Target, Fresh & Easy and several other stores. |
Food Safety |
| May 22, 2011 |
''Patients at heart of medical device issue'' "Antonitsa Vlahoulis knew as she slipped into unconsciousness on the operating room table that her surgeon would choose which medical device she would receive to fix her leaky heart valve." |
Drugs and Devices at the FDA |
| Apr 4, 2012 |
''Panel: To Safeguard Food Imports, It's Not Just About Inspections'' "Locavores, a word with you. Local food may be gaining traction in all kinds of ways, but a report out today from the Institute of Medicine serves as a stark reminder of just how globalized our food system truly is." |
Food Hazards |
| Mar 24, 2009 |
''Our Sick Farms, Our Infected Food'' ''Agriculture has fueled the eruption of human civilization. Efficiently raised, affordable crops and livestock feed our growing population, and hunger has largely been banished from the developed world as a result.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 30, 2011 |
"Since 1995 Denmark has enforced progressively tighter rules on the use of antibiotics in the raising of pigs, poultry and other livestock. In the process, it has shown that it is possible to protect human health without hurting farmers." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 3, 2012 |
Oregon Public Health Division Releases Wind Energy Health Impact Assessment for Public Comment The Oregon Public Health Division spent the last year responding to questions from the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE), local health departments, and community members in Eastern Oregon about the potential health impacts of wind energy facilities on Oregon communities. |
Health Impact Assessment |
| May 28, 2013 |
''On the Front Lines of Food Safety'' "With piles of fresh strawberries beckoning consumers at markets and stores this season, an alliance of a major retailer, fruit growers and farm workers has begun a program to promote healthy produce and improve working conditions." |
Food Safety |
| Dec 4, 2011 |
''Omaha man sues for listeria contamination'' "An Omaha man who says he was made ill with listeriosis from contaminated Colorado cantaloupe is suing the grower, the distributor, a lab that audited the farm for food safety and Kroger Co., the owner of Baker's Supermarket, where he bought the contaminated melon." |
Food Hazards |
| Jun 11, 2012 |
''Officials probe E. coli outbreak'' ''A mysterious and scattered outbreak of the E. coli bacteria is linked to 14 illnesses, including a child's death, health officials say. No form of contaminated food or other cause has been identified in the illnesses, which occurred in April and May, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.'' |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 10, 2008 |
''Obama's 'Secretary of Food'?'' ''As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a position renamed 'secretary of food.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Oct 5, 2011 | "More than 250 doctors and other health care professionals have signed a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking a comprehensive human health study of the state's proposal to permit new deep drilling for natural gas across the Marcellus Shale region of upstate New York." | Health Impact Assessment |
| Dec 16, 2011 |
''Now's time to rethink HISD food program'' "The Texas Watchdog website recently reported that Aramark, the private corporation that manages the Houston Independent School District's Food Services department, violated its contract by incurring a shortfall of almost $2 million in taxpayer dollars in fiscal 2011." |
School Food |
| Apr 5, 2012 |
''NIH names Dr. Gary H. Gibbons director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute'' Preeminent clinician-scientist and cardiologist takes the helm at the NHLBI. |
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| Mar 8, 2013 |
'''Nightmare Bacteria' Defy Even Last-Ditch Drugs'' 'Nightmare bacteria,' strains of superbugs resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics, have quadrupled in number in the last decade — and have been found lurking in hospitals in 42 states. |
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| Jul 26, 2012 | An NFL salary can afford an athlete plenty of ways to while away the offseason. Will Witherspoon fell into cattle herding. And that lead him to his latest quest — building support for a bill that would ban the use of antibiotics on healthy animals in farming. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 29, 2012 |
New York Times Features Research by Former Pew Scholar The New York Times' Science Tuesday section highlighted the research of 1990 Pew Scholar, and recently retired advisory committee member, Dave Julius. The article detailed Dr. Julius’ research on how infrared sensing evolved in animals like boas, pythons and bats, from the same neuronal receptor that allows humans to sense the burning sensation from hot peppers. |
Biomedical Research |
| Apr 16, 2010 |
''New report stresses safety risks to Americans from Chinese-made pharmaceutical ingredients'' "A new report (pdf) by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission stresses the safety risks to Americans posed by pharmaceutical ingredients made in China." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| Mar 13, 2013 |
New Poll Shows Americans Support Nutritional Guidelines for School Foods A new poll conducted by Gallup indicates that two-thirds of Americans are in favor of a law to limit unhealthy food sold in schools. |
School Food |
| Oct 24, 2012 |
New HIA Identifies Possible Health Effects of Casino Development in Southeast Kansas A new report on a health impact assessment conducted by the Kansas Health Institute, a grantee of the Health Impact Project, examines potential health benefits and risks of developing a casino in southeast Kansas. |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Jan 16, 2012 |
''NashVitality Week preaches healthy Nashville'' "The final piece of NashVitality Week is a series of health impact assessment workshops. The first takes place today; another will take place Friday and the third on Jan. 25." |
Health Impact Assessment |
| Feb 10, 2013 |
''N.H. Ahead of Curve For School Snack Nutrition'' "The U.S. government is taking steps to further limit junk food in school vending machines and cafeteria lines, but it won’t mean a big change for New Hampshire students." |
School Food |
| Aug 15, 2012 |
''N.C. Farm Recalls Cantaloupes, Melons Amid Listeria Concerns'' "Burch Farms has recalled all cantaloupes and honeydew melons it grew this year because of possible listeria contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday." |
Food Safety |
| Oct 19, 2010 |
''Musty odor sparks another Tylenol recall'' "A moldy odor has again stricken Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol, and the company is recalling another lot of the over-the-counter painkiller. J&J, which has recalled tens of millions of bottles of Tylenol and other consumer medicines in the past year because of complaints of a musty or moldy odor in the product, said it was voluntarily recalling another lot." |
Drug Manufacturing and Distribution, Drug Safety |
| May 1, 2009 |
''More Readers' Questions About Swine Flu'' This week the World Health Organization raised its global threat level to 5, its second highest, and warned nations to prepare for a global flu pandemic. Additional cases of the new swine flu were confirmed not just in North America and Mexico but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Peru, Germany, Austria, Spain, Israel, New Zealand and Hong Kong. And, amid some controversy, the swine flu virus got an official but unwieldy new name: A(H1N1). |
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| Mar 23, 2012 |
''More On Court Ordering FDA Hearings on Farm Antibiotics'' "Since I posted last night on the judge’s order that the Food and Drug Administration examine the safety of farm antibiotics -- via hearings that the FDA scheduled, but never held, back in 1977 -- a lot has happened." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
