1 hour ago by Patricia Sauthoff

First Lady Michelle Obama launch her campaign against child obesity, Let’s Move, Tuesday morning. The program aims to improve kids’ health by improving school lunches, increasing the number of farmers markets in the country and revamping the tried and true food pyramid. It also focuses on physical a ...

New Mexico Independent - newmexicoindependent.com · Rank: 1,956 · 443 references

1 hour ago by Barry Hardy

We are establishing an InnovationWell Collaboration Pool of individuals and organisations who have an interest in collaborating together in areas of healthcare and life science innovation. For example, a selection of Pool members could participate in a collaborative life science, systems biology or ...

The Ferryman - barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman · 9 references

3 hours ago by Theresa Gould

This article was originally published a MoldRecovery.blogspot.com by Andrea Fabry. The following article recently appeared in the Washington Post. If the government can reverse itself on something like this, it might not be long before they’re reversing their policy on mold. The Food and Drug Admini ...

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4 hours ago by @Risk

In her speech last week at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, announced that the FDA is deploying a new web-based information technology system designed to more reliably monitor imports of food and medical products at the port of ...

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4 hours ago by eirokschulz

You sit down with your favorite snack food and just start munching… but before you know it, you’ve consumed 5 servings of that “100 Calorie” snack that really doesn’t have much nutritional value. The FDA is considering making “junk food” supplement facts be more accurate to what people actually eat. ...

Become Whole - eirokschulz.wordpress.com · 1 reference

5 hours ago by Alan Heath

Some manufacturers have applauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for demanding increased study of the long-term effects of Bisphenol A (BPA) exposure.

Ceepackaging - ceepackaging.com · 10 references

8 hours ago by Fred

On February 5, 2010, the NY Times ran a piece outlining thoughts at the FDA of re-evaluating the portion sizes found on food labels. For those of us who follow a specialty diet; the issues with food labels are no surprise. While we are all hunting through to understand what items may indicate wheat, ...

Juno Nutrition - junonutrition.com/blog

8 hours ago by pharmafeed

Ahead of Wednesday’s advisory committee meeting, FDA staffers have raised questions about Cell Therapeutics’ lymphoma drug pixantrone. The developer is hoping to market the therapy, also known as Pixuvri, as a treatment for patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that hasn’t responded to other treatmen ...

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8 hours ago by pharmafeed

FDA sent out a new Tysabri warning Friday, one emphasizing that the risk of a rare brain infection increases as treatment continues. Biogen Idec, which markets the multiple sclerosis drug, said the FDA’s warning–and revision of Tysabri’s labeling–was not new. ”Either it was included as part of our l ...

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9 hours ago by FatFighter

Ever look closely at the serving size on packaged foods and flip out that a tiny bag of say… crackers… is considered two (or more) servings? It can be pretty misleading, huh? Now, the Food and Drug Administration wants food makers to change the serving size on their products to make them more realis ...

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