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Smart Choices Program helps shoppers identify food and beverage choices

This summer, the Smart Choices Program TM will appear on hundreds of products in supermarkets and other retail outlets across the country. This first-ever uniform front-of-pack nutrition labeling program, developed by a diverse ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'

In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in Canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. ‘boxes’) may help reduce ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Better science, please

Just when you thought that the industry that made money on bisphenol A could not have been any cozier with the federal agency regulating the chemical comes another revelation. Cozy? How about joined at the hip?

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Chicago City Council approves BPA baby bottle ban

(AP) -- Chicago on Wednesday became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Do smokers cost society money?

(AP) -- Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 12

New wheat disease could spread faster than expected

Both plant and human diseases that can travel with the wind have the potential to spread far more rapidly than has been understood, according to a new study, in findings that pose serious concerns not only for some human ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Judge orders FDA to let 17-year-olds use Plan B (Update)

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal judge said Monday as he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study finds confidence in food safety plunges in wake of peanut butter contamination

Fewer than one in four consumers now believe the U.S. food supply is safer than it was a year ago, according to new data from the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University ...

Biology /

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2