Health and Wellness Archive
Senator at Odds With Growers Over Produce Safety Rules
LOS ANGELES -- California farmers and State Sen. Dean Florez are at odds over proposed safety regulations for lettuce, spinach and other crops. ...
FDA Issues Proposed Gluten-Free Definition
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has published a much-anticipated definition of "gluten-free" using a threshold of 20 parts per million, an extremely low amount since studies have shown allergic reactions in humans do not occur until the ingestion of 100ppm or more. ...
Conflicting Food Claims Baffle Consumers
ORLANDO, Fla. -- American consumers are so overwhelmed by strident and conflicting clams about whether certain foods offer a health benefit, that many are reduced to ignoring all such information and relying on common sense. ...
Safeway's Burd Urges New Industry Health Care Directions
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Steve Burd, Safeway's chairman, president and chief executive officer, urged food industry leaders yesterday to follow his company's lead in embracing market-based health care solutions as a means of cutting costs and helping to solve a national health care crisis. ...
Bill Introduced to Require Cloned Food Labels
SAN FRANCISCO -- Legislators in California may soon decide how to treat food items made from cloned animals, regardless of U.S. regulators. ...
Starbucks Dropping Controversial Hormone
SEATTLE -- Starbucks Corp. announced yesterday it will begin taking steps to eliminate artificial growth hormones from the dairy products it serves. ...
Japan not Ready to Modify U.S. Beef Export Standards
WASHINGTON -- Japan is not yet ready to accept meat from U.S. cattle older than 20 months until the two countries conduct audits, confirm results and make the results public for the verification period to be completed, said Japan's Agriculture Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka during a meeting last week with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns. ...
Samples Match Taco John's E. Coli Strain; Investigation Ongoing
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration announced that two environmental samples gathered from dairy farms near a lettuce growing area in California's Central Valley tested positive for the same strain of E. coli responsible for the outbreak at Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Taco John's Restaurants. ...
H-E-B Launches Health Challenge
SAN ANTONIO -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. has announced the "H-E-B goodness!" challenge, a contest geared toward helping three San Antonio-area families live healthier lives in 2007. ...
Americans Dieting Less Than Ever, NPD Reports
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. -- The number of Americans following a specific diet declined again last year, according to the NPD Group's 21st annual "Eating Patterns in America" report released here yesterday. ...
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