Some cookie monsters want their cookies crispy but others prefer chewy.  For a lot of people who like Toll House cookies, the raw dough is better than the cooked stuff.  That raw dough can make you very sick these days,…

The chief executive officer of AM2PAT, Inc., has fled the United States after two managers from his company’s North Carolina plant were sentenced to several years in prison for shipping medical syringes that were not sterilized, as required by law. …

The now-bankrupt Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) inadvertently set off the largest food recall in United States history when it shipped peanut base products to food manufacturers in spite of repeated tests indicating evidence of salmonella colonization.  The resulting outbreak…

Anyone who enjoys potluck dinners, church suppers, and other gatherings where people bring food to be shared with a crowd is familiar with the ubiquitous casserole.  This dish, in any of its many versions, has become so common that it’s…

Two women from Tampa, Florida, are suffering serious health consequences after they allowed a woman to inject their buttocks with a homemade silicon solution to enhance their appearances.  Both women, in their 30s, were hospitalized after the injections made them…

Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), the company making recent headlines for knowingly selling salmonella-tainted peanut butter to some of the nation’s leading makers of packaged food products, has been called in for a congressional hearing.  Congressman…

Repeated inspections didn’t get the job done.  Nor did regulations governing how to operate a safe food-handling facility.  Building codes didn’t do the job, either.  Instead, it took a widespread salmonella outbreak that made more than 500 people sick to…

The list grows as more and more peanut-based products are being voluntarily recalled after a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning was issued on Saturday, January 17.  At this time, the source of Salmonella contamination is thought to be…

Recent issue of ‘JAMA,’ the ‘Journal of the American Medical Association,’ says abuse and deadly overdoses attributed to prescription painkillers is on the rise, with rural America leading the way.  The study behind this alarming finding focused on West Virginia,…

The Children’s Health Fund (CHF) released its first report on the health of the children displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and it seems that, even years after storm winds and rains have subsided, the ravage of these…

Pet food, baby formula, milk and milk products, candy, breaded shrimp, vitamins, protein supplement powders, yogurt, chocolates, biscuits, snacks, cookies. Many of these products are made in China and imported to the United States in massive number. And many of…

The committee of experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) commissioner released a report that says the FDA is wrong about the safety of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound used throughout the bottle-manufacturing industry.  Plastic baby bottles…

Hundreds of infants in China have developed painful kidney stones after ingesting infant formulas, manufactured in China, that may contain melamine.  Melamine is the substance behind last year’s widespread pet-food recall that left untold numbers of cats and dogs in…

The federal government’s top toxicologists report “concerns” over bisphenol A (BPA), the controversial chemical in many of the nation’s favorite plastic beverage containers, after a full investigation of the chemical suspected of causing problems with behavior and development of the…