News tagged with food recalls

What are you eating? Mobile app can tell you

Gatorade drinkers wondering about the calcium pantothenate in their favorite sports drink won't have to guess much longer.

Technology / Software

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Children's liquid cold, allergy medicine recalled

(AP) -- More than 40 over-the-counter infant's and children's liquid medications are being recalled in the United States and 11 other countries because they don't meet quality standards.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds many consumers ignore food product recalls

Rutgers' Food Policy Institute (FPI) released a study today showing that many Americans fail to check their homes for recalled food products. Only about 60 percent of the studied sample reported ever having looked for recalled ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China orders recall of Glaxco drug

China Saturday ordered British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to recall an antibiotic used to treat infections in children which was found to be tainted with a plasticiser.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

J&J, FDA leaders take heat for 'phantom' recall

(AP) -- Johnson & Johnson executives and the Food and Drug Administration both shouldered the blame Thursday for a secret recall in which hired contractors quietly bought up defective painkillers to clear ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kroger uses technology to stop flow of recalled items

Supermarkets across the country cleared the shelves of more than 2,600 items recalled after salmonella contamination was found in some products made by the Peanut Corp. of America.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Following peanut product recall, six in ten Americans taking steps to reduce risk of sickness

A new national survey conducted by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health finds that the vast majority (93%) of Americans have heard or read about the recent ongoing recall of peanut products. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0