Two serious food contamination incidents have bowed the food industry over the past couple of months. The ConAgra and Menu Foods incidents are as far apart as peanut butter and pet food. While distinct in many ways, together they show how you can never let your guard down on food safety.
This week we saw interest and attention given to Teen drivers as new bills and laws are passed to restrict some liberties afforded to teen drivers. From driving curfews to limiting who they ride with, teens are facing tough times ahead.
After a year of headlines warning of contaminated spinach, peanut butter, and, most recently, pet food, lawmakers and government officials are trying to plug holes in the nation's food-safety barriers.
The survey found that Internet safety is a relatively new health concern amongst parents. Women were more likely to rate it as a big problem; 32% of women report Internet safety as a big problem compared with only 21% of men. Internet safety had no differences in proportion of concern by education status, income level or marital status.
Alarms sounded that a magnetic toy was dangerous. The federal agency charged with toy safety didn't act. Neither did the toy's manufacturer. Not until a boy died.
The new spot is the latest in a series of ads for the F-150 featuring Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs." It is designed to call attention to the fact that Ford's pickup received the highest possible safety rating while competing models from rivals Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. did not.
From tainted peanut butter to deadly spinach and pet food, incidents of contamination have raised questions not only about the U.S. food supply but the government's efforts to keep it safe.
Just 1.3 percent of imported fish, vegetables, fruit and other foods are inspected yet those government inspections regularly reveal food unfit for human consumption. Frozen catfish from China, beans from Belgium, baked goods from Canada, India and the Philippines the list of tainted food detained at the border by the FDA stretches on.
As the plane began its landing approach to Chicago, the enemy flew into action. Yes, a terrorist posing as a bird committed suicide by flying into the engine of the plane. Thankfully, the pilots were well-trained to handle such an incident and took evasive maneuvers.
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How real is the threat of violence on the job, especially from co-workers? Should you be worried that your workplace isn't safe enough?
Accidents in the home are a major cause of unplanned hospital or clinic visits, and homeowners with young children need to take special care to guard against mishap. Here are the top 10 actions that safety experts recommend they take to "child-proof" a home:
For all the research that goes into building safer vehicles, for all the advancements that have saved untold lives and allowed many people to walk away from violent collisions, safety experts still know little about what happens inside the human body when a car hits a tree at 40 m.p.h.
Before we get to discussing white collar impotence, though, let me say this: I loved this episode. I loved it in a way that might be unnatural for a man to love a network television show. Really, any more clicks higher on the "loved this episode" scale and I might be protested by a family organization.
We'd like to think that FDA officials have only our health and safety in mind when they decide on what food or medicines they'll allow us to buy. But, sadly enough, they're as politically motivated as any politician in Washington.
FDA proposes relaxing labeling requirements on food exposed to radiation, and calling it "PASTEURIZED" instead! ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO STEAMROLL OVER THE SAFETY OF FOOD.
Did you know raisins, Easter lilies can be hazardous to your pet's health? This is a 'must-read' for any dog or cat owner.
Food safety expert Dr. Dennis Maki discusses the recent E. coli outbreak in spinach and whether the U.S. food supply is safe.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
A dynamic brake light system that enables rear lights on a leading vehicle to contract or expand during hard braking could help lessen how often rear-end automobile collisions occur, says new research from the University of Toronto.
Not even temperatures hovering below zero or a foot of snow stopped customers from trekking to Mary's Amish Market for her fruit pies and Swiss cheese. But state regulators are stopping by for another reason.
Georgia highway officials investigating a deadly bus crash said Tuesday they would add safety measures to several commuter-lane exits like the one the baseball team's bus had taken before it plunged off an overpass two weeks ago.
Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-workers lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
10 Steps to Make Your Personal Firewall More Secure

Researchers have developed a screening method to examine how newly made nanoparticles — particles with dimensions on the order of billionths of a meter — interact with human cells following exposure for various times and doses.
Online, things often are not what they seem. Nothing is ever certain, but you can take steps to protect yourself. AOL's Consumer Adviser Regina Lewis gives tips.
Australia and New Zealand's food regulator is failing to apply its own safety standards, or those of international guidelines, in assessing a new-generation GM corn for human consumption, critics say.
A memo written by a Big Dig safety officer warning superiors at his construction company that parts of a tunnel ceiling could collapse appears to be a fake, the company said Wednesday.









