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Despite concerns that feeding antibiotics to livestock is harmful to humans, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have to ban the use of antibiotics in ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed Colgate-Palmolive Co. to market a toothpaste containing a chemical the government knew could cause health problems, and kept the information from the public for 17 years. Bloomberg is reporting that the popular ...

For hundreds and thousands of years, farmers have applied manure and compost to their crops, using a time-tested method that produces a bountiful harvest using sustainable methods. But that could come to an end soon due to a proposed rule ...

Farming methods that have been used in America and throughout the world for centuries are in danger of essentially being banned under proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Small and large organic farms alike that sell produce ...

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates. But aren’t we interpreting it the wrong way when we put antibiotics in the animals we rear for food? But that’s exactly what we have been doing for ...

A new California egg law is impacting farmers, and ultimately consumers, from other states. In fact, lawmakers in multiple states are claiming that the egg law is interfering with interstate commerce. Opponents of the new law feel that California’s animal ...

Antibacterial soaps are no more effective than using traditional soap and may contain potentially toxic chemicals that pose a health risk, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded. To make matters worse, the popular soaps could actually make ...

Opposition from small farmers has forced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise controversial new food safety regulations. Critics charged the regulations would have made organic and sustainable farming nearly impossible. The new rules were an attempt to stop ...

Tylenol bottles will soon sport red labels warning that the drug contains acetaminophen, which can cause liver failure and even death if consumed in excess. The company that makes Tylenol is taking the step under a cloud of lawsuits and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a plan it says will phase out the practice of giving healthy animals antibiotics simply to fatten them up, although the plan is only voluntary and already has many critics. The ...