FDA scientist sentenced to five years in prison for insider trading on drug approval knowledge

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By Jonathan Benson, NaturalNews.com A drug evaluator at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research for more than a decade, Cheng Yi Liang, 58, has been sentenced to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for using non-public FDA data to conduct illegal insider trading. According [...]

Vaccines for everything: Researchers now on brink of developing salmonella jab

Vaccines

The vaccine industry is currently hard at work trying to churn out a vaccine for salmonella, a typically food borne pathogen that thrives on factory farms and in other unsanitary settings. CBS 13 News in Sacramento reports that researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been tasked with developing a vaccine that supposedly prevents salmonella, which these researchers say they are on the verge of completing in the very near future.

Feds: Fresh milk 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized dairy

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The federal government said Tuesday that fresh milk is 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized milk — a finding that bolsters the government’s argument as it goes after farmers who sell unpasteurized milk across state lines.

Neotame the next aspartame? FDA doesn’t require labeling of latest chemical sweetener from Monsanto

sweetners

It could be lurking in the foods you eat every single day, including U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) certified organic foods, and you would never even know it. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared that one of Monsanto’s latest creations, a synthetic sweetener chemical known as neotame, does not have to be labeled in food products, including even in organic food products.

FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail

FDA

The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show.

Dissolvable tobacco products under FDA scrutiny

tabacco

The Food and Drug Administration will meet this week to discuss the public health impact of tobacco products known as dissolvable tobacco, which some say resemble candy, including their use by children.

FDA launches soft investigation, but no recall, after infant formula linked to causing death in babies

Formula

Walmart has voluntarily recalled a batch of Enfamil Newborn powdered formula cans from 3,000 US stores after the substance inside them was linked to causing death in some babies.

Obama FDA Considers Putting Morning-After Pill on Supermarket Shelves

Plan B

The Washington Post reports that, under President Obama and his Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Food and Drug Administration is considering letting “anyone of any age buy the controversial morning-after pill Plan B directly off drugstore and supermarket shelves without a prescription.”

Get Ready to Gobble Drug-Resistant Bacteria

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Thanksgiving is just days away, a time to feast with family. And to avoid food-borne bacterial infections.

Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns

child using an asthma inhaler

By MARK HEMINGWAY, The Weekly Standard Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer: Asthma patients who rely [...]

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