Peanuts from this Georgia company were recalled because of possible salmonella contamination in January.
U.S. food safety laws are like an egg-salad sandwich that’s been left too long in the sun: Once perfectly good, it now is apt to make you…
Healthy piglets are injected with antibiotics in this Post-Dispatch file photo.
Pop quiz: Most antibiotics in the United States are used for (a) healthy farm animals or (b) people with potentially life-threatening infections?
The answer, by a long shot, is healthy farm…
The federal government finally will regulate cigarette manufacturing and marketing. That’s long overdue, as anyone familiar with the tobacco industry’s shameful history can attest.
President Barack Obama — an occasional smoker who admits that he still struggles daily with his nicotine…
Indian children where skull masks at an anti-tobacco rally in Calcutta.
Cigarettes are a potent delivery device for the drug nicotine. But unlike most other drugs in widespread use, nicotine isn’t regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
This week, the…
Safeguards that are supposed to protect Americans from tainted food are obsolete, ineffective and in urgent need of revision.
More than a dozen federal agencies are responsible for some aspect of food safety. Among them is the U.S. Department of Agriculture,…
Competition makes some companies trim costs, others cut prices. Then there’s the strategy allegedly adopted by Solvay Pharmaceuticals: Pay off your competitors.
Solvay makes a prescription drug called AndroGel, a synthetic form of testosterone. It’s used by men with cancer, HIV or…
Once upon a time, Americans were concerned about unsafe food being sold to the public. So they created a food protection system that was the envy of the world.
Then one day, someone decided government isn’t the solution to our problems, government…
Is there anyone left in America who still thinks that just because a medication is approved for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it’s perfectly safe and without product defects?
If so, he or she should type the words…
Tomatoes are the new spinach. They’re this year’s peanut butter and imported seafood, the latest in a painfully long line of potentially tainted foods to turn up on market shelves.
By now, it should be painfully obvious to consumers, grocers and…
The world’s premier drug regulator, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has an almost impossible job. Before a new drug can go on the market, the FDA must assess its safety, and its only guide are studies involving at most…
Surely you’ve seen the television ads, the ones with attractive and carefree people gamboling through fields of flowers thanks to Miracle Drug X, or kayaking up a river thanks to Miracle Cure Y. Life would be better if only your…
