FDA considering whether to label engineered fish
(AP) -- Genetically modified salmon for dinner? Diners might not even know it.
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2010
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News tagged with food and drug administration
Fish or frankenfish? FDA weighs altered salmon (Update)
(AP) -- Fish or frankenfish? A Massachusetts company wants to market a genetically engineered version of Atlantic salmon, and regulators are weighing the request. If approval is given, it would be the first time the government ...
Biotechnology
Sep 20, 2010
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Questioning the safety of certain 'healthful' plant-based antioxidants
Scientists are calling for more research on the possibility that some supposedly healthful plant-based antioxidants — including those renowned for their apparent ability to prevent cancer — may actually aggravate or even ...
Other
Sep 8, 2010
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US mulls approval of genetically engineered salmon
US authorities have begun to consider approval for the first time the sale of genetically engineered salmon, a move that some say could open the door to more transgenic animals on American dinner tables.
Biotechnology
Sep 6, 2010
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Cloned beef traced to Wisconsin cow
Mark Rueth's Holstein cow Paradise had just been crowned supreme champion of the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., in 2000 when a biotechnology company salesman approached him ringside and offered a cut-rate deal to clone ...
Biotechnology
Aug 17, 2010
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US urges focus on clean-up, sea damage after BP spill
US officials on Sunday urged further study of the damage done to the environment by BP's broken well, and said clean-up efforts must continue despite claims that much of the oil had vanished from the Gulf of Mexico.
Environment
Aug 8, 2010
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La. fishermen wrinkle their noses at 'smell tests'
(AP) -- Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government's assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore ...
Environment
Aug 3, 2010
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NOAA: Gulf seafood tested so far is safe to eat
(AP) -- Shrimp, grouper, tuna and other seafood snatched from the fringes of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat, according to a federal agency inspecting the catch.
Environment
Jul 10, 2010
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Liposome-hydrogel hybrids: No toil, no trouble for stronger bubbles
People have been combining materials to bring forth the best properties of both ever since copper and tin were merged to start the Bronze Age. In the latest successful merger, researchers at the National Institute of Standards ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 9, 2010
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Study finds rising levels of dioxins from common soap ingredient in Mississippi River
Specific dioxins derived from the antibacterial agent triclosan, used in many hand soaps, deodorants, dishwashing liquids and other consumer products, account for an increasing proportion of total dioxins in Mississippi River ...
Environment
May 18, 2010
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