A report sponsored by the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University puts the health-related price tag at $152 billion a year. That’s more than four times an earlier USDA estimate.

By Andrew Zajac and P.J. Huffstutter
It turns out that tainted food can not only make people sick, but it can also cost them a bundle in [...]

Allergan Web site is misleading about glaucoma drug risks, agency says

The Associated Press

NEW YORK – The Food and Drug Administration has warned Allergan Inc. that the Web site for its eyelash thickener Latisse is misleading because it avoids or downplays risks associated with the product.
In a letter dated Sept. 10 and posted to the FDA [...]

By Lorraine Heller

General Mills has been told to change the marketing of its popular Cheerios whole grain cereal, as the health claims it currently uses classify it as an unapproved drug.

The food giant has until next week to inform the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of steps it intends to take to correct its [...]