The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported finding low levels of fungicide carbendazim in orange juice headed for U.S. supermarkets, but assured the public the juice remains safe to drink. After being alerted by Coca Cola, the owner of Minute Maid and Simple Orange brands of orange juice, that certain juice from Brazil had tested [...]
Posts Tagged ‘FDA’
FDA Finds Fungicide in OJ to Be Sold in US, But FDA Says “It’s Just Fine”
Posted: February 4, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Brazil, carbendazim, Coca-Cola, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Fungicide, Health, Minute Maid, News, OJ, Simple Orange, Sold in US
Help stop former Monsanto VP from attaining top position at the FDA – sign the petition
Posted: February 2, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWS, POLITICSTags: FDA, Genetically Modified Organisms, Health, Michael R. Taylor, Monsanto VP, News, petition, POLITICS, President Obama, US Food Safety Czar
Thursday, February 02, 2012 by: S. D. Wells (NaturalNews) The one man who may be responsible for more food related illnesses and deaths than anyone in history, Michael R. Taylor, has just been promoted from US Food Safety Czar to Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA, a position which would enable the giant [...]
Johnson & Johnson baby lotion found contaminated with deadly bacteria
Posted: February 2, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Alabama, Arkansas, Aveeno Baby Calming Comfort Lotion, baby lotion, Bacteria, coagulase-negative staphylococci, contaminated, FDA, Florida, Georgia, Health, Johnson & Johnson, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, News, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Thursday, February 02, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) More quality control issues at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have spurred yet another consumer product recall. At least 2,200 bottles of Aveeno Baby Calming Comfort Lotion from lot number 0161LK have been found to be contaminated with coagulase-negative staphylococci, a highly-contagious, antibiotic-resistant pathogen that can [...]
FDA Fired Employees Who Warned Congress About Approvals of Dangerous Medical Devices
Posted: January 31, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWS, POLICE STATETags: Approvals of Dangerous Medical Devices, Congress, FDA, Fired Employees, Food and Drug Administration, Gmail, Health, lawsuit, Medical device, News, Police state, United States Congress, United States district court, Warned, Washington Post
Via: Washington Post: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by six [...]
U.S. Juice Products Association wants you to drink more chemical fungicide in your orange juice
Posted: January 29, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Association, Brazil, Canada, carbendazim, Chemical, Coca-Cola, Environmental Protection Agency, FDA, fungiciden, fungus, Health, imported orange, juice, Minute Maid, News, products, Simply Orange, U.S., USA
Sunday, January 29, 2012 by: Tara Green (NaturalNews) During the month of January 2012, the FDA detained nearly 14% of imported orange juice shipments to the US because it contained the fungicide carbendazim which is not approved for use in this country. According the US Juice Products Association, the solution is to change the regulations [...]
FDA may legalize pot medicine, but only for Big Pharma
Posted: January 28, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Associated Press, Big Pharma, Cannabis, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, GW Pharma, Health, legalize, Medicine, News, Pharmaceutical industry, pot, Sativex, Tetrahydrocannabinol
Saturday, January 28, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The pressure is on for researchers and pharmaceutical companies to develop drug-based, non-synthetic versions of marijuana for medical use, as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is poised to approve such varieties in the near future. But this potential approval appears to be reserved [...]
Business As Usual at the FDA
Posted: January 27, 2012 in FINANCIAL, HEALTH, NEWSTags: Bayer AG, FDA, Financial, Health, Jill Hartzler Warner, News, safety committee
Karen De Coster, Contributing Writer Activist Post This story in the Wall Street Journal barely made a splash last week – “FDA Panelists Had Ties to Bayer.” Three advisors who had financial ties to Bayer AG were invited to serve on a “safety committee” for the FDA to assess the safety of four Bayer AG [...]
Animal Drug Widely Used in US Meat the Focus of Trade Dispute
Posted: January 26, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Animal, Dispute, drug, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Meat, msnbc.com, Ractopamine, Trade, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States, US, Wednesday, Widely Used
by Gretchen Goetz FOOD SAFETY NEWS A controversial animal drug, fed to a majority of pigs raised in the United States, has become the focus of a long-running trade dispute centered on meat exports. Ractopamine hydrochloride – used to keep swine lean and boost their growth in the last weeks before slaughter – is administered [...]
Sec 105 of SOPA threatens freedom of health speech, aligns with FDA Trilateral Co-Op Charter to eliminate access to dietary supplements
Posted: January 19, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWS, POLICE STATETags: 105, access, aligns, Charter, Cooperation, dietary, eliminate, FDA, freedom, Health, News, of, police, potentially, Sec, SOPA, Speech, STATE, Supplements, threatens, to, Trilateral, with
Thursday, January 19, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Identifying threats to health freedom and freedom of health speech often requires connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated verbiage in one piece of legislation and a trade agreement, for instance, or reading between the lines to identify the full intent or scope of a [...]
We Win! FDA Reverses Decision to Deregulate Antibiotic Use in Livestock
Posted: January 10, 2012 in HEALTH, NEWSTags: Antibiotic, Decision, Deregulate, FDA, in, Livestock, Reverses, to, Use, We, Win
Kevin Hayden – TruthisTreason.net In what can only be described as a food freedom win, the FDA has reversed their decision to de-regulate antibiotic use in livestock, poultry, and swine. I wrote about this a few weeks ago and mentioned that CAFOs, or Confined/Commercial Animal Feeding Operations, accounted for roughly 80% of the antibiotic use [...]