Get ready for the not-so-kind-and-gentle FDA when it comes to food safety. The agency took abuse from politicians and consumer advocates over its handling of peanut and pistachio contamination earlier this year. Possibly to avoid a third hit, the agency moved swiftly and without warning on May 7 when it sent U.S. marshals into a [...]
Looking to promote the safety of your product? Tout the fact that your children’s bath and shampoo products do not contain formaldehyde. In a recent test, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics found 23 children’s bath products that that may cause cancer and skin allergies. Another product, 1,4-dioxane, was found in 32 of 48 products. The [...]
A swimmer who missed the Olympics says she doesn’t have a drug problem: A Texas supplement company does. Jessica Hardy claims in a lawsuit that AdvoCare International Co. caused her to be disqualified from the U.S. team because the products Arginine Extreme and Nighttime Recovery were contaminated with clenbuterol, an anti-asthma medication similar to albuterol, [...]
What do sibutramine, rimonabant, phenytoin and phenolphthalein have in common? You can find them spread among the 69 brands of weight-loss pills identified by the FDA. The weight-loss segment of the industry will likely see even more scrutiny of its manufacturing practices now that the FDA has targeted products that it considers harmful or illegal. [...]
