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Entries Tagged as 'health'
Exotic illnesses afflict American poor
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
January 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Surely the greatest headline ever about the need to eat less meat.
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Tags: environment · health
Safety Agency Faces Scrutiny Amid Changes
September 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Finally, the media gets around to watchdogging the fact that Bush has crippled the watchdogs. What took so long?
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Virus Spreading Alarm and Deadly Pig Disease in China
August 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
A highly infectious swine virus is sweeping China’s pig population, driving up pork prices and creating fears of a global pandemic among domesticated pigs.
Animal virus experts say Chinese authorities are playing down the gravity and spread of the disease.
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Tags: blue+ear+pig+disease · china · food · health
Veggie Booty recalled after four children get salmonella
June 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
The vegetarian snack food Veggie Booty has been recalled after public health officials identified it as the source of a salmonella outbreak that has afflicted mostly children under 10 years old, including four in Washington.
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F.D.A. Issues Alert on Chinese Seafood
June 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
The Food and Drug Administration today issued an alert challenging imports of five major types of farm-raised seafood from China, including shrimp and catfish, because testing found recurrent contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics.
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Tags: china · seafood · business · health
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
May 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »
Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, […]