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The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) is preparing the 6th edition of the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC). Stakeholders have been submitting candidate monographs for revision throughout the spring, and the 60-day comment period for standards for proposed revision will run from June 15 through August 15, 2007. The FCC Forum online provides the opportunity to submit input […]

МCLOSE your eyes, breathe deeply, and imagine yourself at your most well. What does it look like?Н
The voice on the other end of the phone belonged to neither a guru nor my primary doctor, but to a wellness coach, and the question wasnЙt rhetorical. The coach, Dr. Julie Desch of Palo Alto, Calif., wanted […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish, which actually may be puffer fish, containing a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin. Eating puffer fish that contain this potent toxin can result in serious illness or death.
Tetrodotoxin is not destroyed by common food preparation […]

The Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite, a new moon, on Oct. 4, 1957. Climbing out of the terrestrial gravity well, rising above the atmosphere and into orbit, Sputnik crossed the threshold into a new dimension of human experience. People could now see their kind as spacefarers. Their enhanced mobility might someday prove […]

“Its indisputable that autism is on the rise among children,” Senator John McCain said while campaigning recently in Texas. “The question is, Whats causing it? And we go back and forth, and theres strong evidence that indicates that its got to do with a preservative in vaccines.”
With that comment, McCain marked his entry into […]