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NEWS ABOUT: safety

safety stories: 65 news summaries

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Melamine Death Toll Passes 8,000 Pets

FDA says health
risk for humans
unlikely

May 4, 07 12:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than 8,000 deaths of cats and dogs that may be linked to melamine-tainted food have been reported to the FDA in the two months since the pet food recall. The statistics come as the FDA tries to assure Americans that the tainted protein concentrates, also fed to hogs... More »

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China • food • pets • FDA • health • pet food recall • melamine • food contamination • David Acheson • safety • protein

Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

NASA ponders death, sex during long
space voyages

May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - As NASA plans a three-year manned mission to Mars during the next three decades, Oregon Trail ethics are being updated. What do you do with bodies of pioneers who don't make it? A new document on crew health from the space agency deals with death and interment where no man... More »

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ethics • NASA • space exploration • Mars • space • astronauts • safety • cosmonaut

Glass Bottles Breaking Into Baby Market

Fears about toxic plastics are turning back the clock

Apr 30, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Glass is the new plastic—for baby bottles, at least. A rash of health warnings about plastic—toxicity reports, cancer risks, even longterm fertility problems—is turning many moms on to the glass bottles their own moms dropped as too breakable. eBay prices are soaring, and bottle distributors struggling to... More »

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health • bisphenol A • baby bottle • plastic • baby • safety • bottles

FDA Knew About Food Dangers

Overwhelmed food-safety arm didn't follow up on peanut butter, spinach

Apr 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FDA knew for years about problems at the peanut butter plant and spinach farms that led to major disease outbreaks, but took minimal steps to redress them. The agency's food safety arm can't keep up with the explosion in the amount of food it is supposed to regulate, the ... More »

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food • FDA • health • food safety • spinach • Robert Brackett • safety

ADD Meds Prescribed
For Weight Loss

Doctors are using Adderall for pediatric obesity, pleasing
parents but raising ethical alarms

Mar 23, 07 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pediatricians are giving Adderall, the pill that got America's kids to pay attention in class, to patients without ADHD but looking to shed extra pounds. One of the drug's side effects is appetite suppression, and "off-label" prescriptions are working for some chunky but otherwise normal teenagers. Parents worried about... More »

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obesity • medicine • ethics • ADHD • Adderall • health • children • weight loss • safety • doctor

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