Kraft To Cut Sodium Levels 10% Over Two Years
(New York, NY) -- Kraft Foods says it plans to cut sodium levels in its North American products by about ten percent over the next two years. The company joins others in the food and beverage sector making changes, due to growing government pressure to make their products healthier ...Read More
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Debate Heats Up As Healthcare Vote Approaches
(Washington, DC) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is among top GOP officials strongly opposed to passage of the healthcare reform legislation in its current form. Steele says the issue among his party members ...Read & Hear More
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Over One-Million High Chairs Recalled
(Washington, DC) -- Over one-million Graco Harmony high chairs are being recalled due to the possibility they could fall or tip over unexpectedly. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the high chairs are made with screws on the front legs that can loosen or fall out ...Read More
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Dozens Sickened With Dysentary From Tainted Subway Sandwiches
(Lombard, IL) -- At least 78 people have been sickened with dysentary after eating at a Subway sandwich shop in Lombard, Illinois. DuPage County health officials say ten of eleven people hospitalized after eating at the restaurant have been discharged ...Read More
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Fifteen-Percent Of Clinical Drug Trials Exclude Homosexuals
(Washington, DC) -- Gays and lesbians may be surprised to find that their sexual orientation excludes them from the clinical trials of some new drugs. A report in the "New England Journal of Medicine" found that both the federal government and private drugmakers weeded out participants on the basis of their sexual orientation ...Read More
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Legislation Introduced To Ban Junk Food In U.S. Schools
(Washington, DC) -- Sales of junk food at schools could end if a plan introduced Wednesday by one Senator is approved. Senator Blanche Lincoln, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, has proposed increasing spending on school nutrition programs by four-point-five-billion-dollars over ten years ...Read More
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