Food Chain Intelligence story raises stomach-turning safety questionsA new story from the Food Chain Intelligence consultancy raises interesting issues about food safety in light of inquiries by the Food and Drug Administration in the US. It includes a stomach-turning history of food poisoning outbreaks, which will interest and disgust Australian readers.
Food and drug administration
Health care journalists: time to bite the hand that feeds
Journalists in the US are demanding that the Food and Drug Administration become more open to genuine engagement with the media, writes Melissa Sweet.
Obama toughens cigarette laws, but is he still puffin’?
The president has signed an anti-smoking bill that gives the FDA more authority to regulate cigarette sales and advertising. But the press corps had one question: are you still smoking?
World misled about benefits of anti-depressant drugs
It’s official: the world has been fundamentally mislead about the benefits and harms of extremely popular anti-depressant drugs, including Prozac, Zoloft and Aropax, writes Ray Moynihan.
A little DDT with the Christmas prawn cocktail?
China’s booming aquaculture business is having an increasing influence on the Australian market, with many of the prawns thrown onto the Christmas barbecues next week sure to have been raised in fish farms the New York Times described recently as “contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides,” writes Richard Farmer.
