News and articles about the Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that samples of pasteurized milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows.
Even when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finds enough baling wire to lash together the votes to pass the budget, it’s little more than a signal to some of his colleagues to heat up the tar and gather the feathers.
Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said.
The 2023 U.S. corn crop is projected to be the largest on record with the lowest percentage of broken corn and foreign material to date, according to a report.
The dairy aisles can be a bit of a puzzle these days due to the misleading labeling of plant and nut-based beverages as “milk.” Don’t mistake me here, everyone should have the options they are looking for, but they also need to know exactly what they are getting.
Did you hear the news? The Food and Drug Administration is on the cusp of approving a breakthrough in human health that may have profound implications for agriculture.
Fen-phen was a combination of fenfluramine and phentermine. Approximately 18 million prescriptions were written for this medicine until 1987, when an association was made between the use of fen-phen and valve diseases of the heart.
At the 2023 National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting, NASDA members adopted several policies.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new drug that is supposed to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s.
The high quality corn harvested last fall continued to maintain high grades through the supply chain to the export channels.
The time has come to study the labels of foods you buy, even if you’ve used those same products for a long time. Not only are manufacturers changing the size of the containers, they’re changing the ingredients.
The presidents of 23 state corn grower groups, joined by the president of the National Corn Growers Association, sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling for him to take additional steps to address the pending decree by Mexico that would block imports of biotech corn.
U.S. Army veteran Matt Schermerhorn couldn’t give blood for years because he was stationed in Europe during a deadly mad cow disease scare there. Now, he’s proud to be back in the donor’s chair.
Several disturbing items have been in the news lately. Have you heard about these product recalls? CPAP machines: Two dozen different CPAP machines have been recalled. The list includes Bilevel PAP, BiPAP or BPAP machines, as well as the CPAP.
Enamel has been used to decorate metal since medieval times, creating elaborate designs on copper, silver and other metals. Enameled pieces for home use were rare before the 1800s.