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The Food and Drug Administration has announced that ‘an analysis of leading brands of electronic cigarettes, a new type of “smokeless” nicotine product, detected carcinogens and a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans.’ According to experts, these ‘cigarettes’ contain toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol and do [...]

US food safety ‘has not improved over the past three years.’ According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US food safety system needs a major overhaul. According to Dr. David Acheson, associate commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration, “The system needs to be modernized to address the [...]

On January 30, 2009, the United States FDA officials began a criminal investigation on the Georgia processing plant for peanut butter and peanut paste that proved to be contaminated and led to the salmonella food poisoning of hundreds of people. The manufacturing process and the plant itself were found to be unsanitary. The Peanut Corporation of America [...]

As is widely known, the peanut butter salmonella poisoning came not too long after another salmonella outbreak, that of the contaminated peppers produce. After a false alarm over suspected tomato salmonella poisoning, the FDA cleared tomatoes for consumption in early July of 2008 (PrietzkerLaw, 2008, July 17). Like the peanut butter case and the tomatoes [...]

Public health crisis communication largely originates from concerned government health agencies since they are the authorities on the matter. However, the wider and quicker dissemination of crisis communication can only be done with the help of media machinery. Media companies through their media facilities such as newspapers, radio, and television [...]

Public health crises such as salmonella poisoning outbreaks need prompt management by stakeholders involved, for basically three reasons: to stem the spread of the outbreak, to facilitate product recall, and to avoid general public health panic. To meet the three imperative objectives, three major groups of stakeholders should act quickly, judiciously, [...]

Stem Cell therapy using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells is going to be extraordinary milestone in the field of medicines. US government has finally cleared clinical trial of a treatment for spinal cord injury using stems cells from human embryo. What is intriguing though is the timing of the clearance which not only comes after a delay [...]