California Wants to Serve a Health Warning With That Order

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Bill Lockyer, California's attorney general, has filed a lawsuit that would force the fast food industry and the snack food industry to put health warning labels on french fries and potato chips. Both products contain high levels of acrylamide, which is a known carcinogen.

Sales & consumption, All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing, California, Industrial Organic Chemicals, Potato Chips, Other Snack Food Manufacturing, Potato Chips, Flavored, Acrylamides, Potato chips and similar snacks, Risk factors, Cocarcinogens, Carcinogens, Consumption data, Warning labels, Acrylamide, French fries

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Issues Arise as Drug's Use Goes Beyond Emergencies

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Natrecor, a drug intended to be used to treat heart failure in emergency situations, is being administered by cardiologists in out-patients. There is some question as to the drug's safety for off-label use.

Product information, Pharmaceutical preparations, Pharmaceutical industry, Complications and side effects, Drug therapy, Dosage and administration, Johnson & Johnson, Heart failure, Off-label prescribing, Off label prescribing, JNJ, Natrecor (Medication)

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Chug Milk, Shed Pounds? Not So Fast

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The group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has filed suit with the Federal Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration over claims that dairy products contribute to weight loss.

Dairy Products, Dairy Product Manufacturing, Science & research, Advertising, Advertising Activity, Health aspects, Research, Company legal issue, Cases, Dairy industry, Dairy products industry, United States. Federal Trade Commission, Weight loss, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, International Dairy Foods Association

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