The "melamine in milk" scare which was a big blow for China is not yet over. And now "arsenic in water" sickens hundreds more. "BEIJING — The number of villagers sickened by drinking water...
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The tainted milk scandal in China is widening outside of baby milk, with the toxic chemical malamine now being found in a cake in Hong Kong."The Hong Kong government says melamine has been detected in a locally...
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Government health investigators had initially focused on some types of fresh tomatoes, which have been removed from menus across the country, but are turning toward jalapenos as sicknesses continue. "Recently,...
US food safety officials said today that more than 350 people have fallen ill from a Salmonella outbreak linked to certain kinds of tomatoes.I just had tomatoes with my lunch so I'm hoping that wasn't a bad...
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Despite its devastatingly good weekend at the box office, it was the monster movie's cinematography that really got moviegoers churning."Cloverfield, the blockbuster horror film selling out cinemas across America,...
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"Based on reports of fumes emanating from the crater, some scientists actually suspect that the event could have been some kind of geyser-like explosion rather than a meteorite impact."
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"The English actress says that she is sickened by celebrities who expose themselves to photographers, and claims their actions make them "s**ttier than everybody else.
Actress Keira Knightley has taken a pot-shot at celebs like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan for flashing...
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Sorry, but I'm on a major food safety thing today. Both this story from the Washington Post and the AP item about an overwhelmed FDA (see below) are growing evidence of a public that is growing increasingly...
"A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said.
White Memorial Medical Center shut down the...
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"he world's largest cruise ship was held in port Monday for intensive cleaning after a second outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in two voyages sickened 108 people."
"We in the Colbert Nation are sickened by the recent news that heavy-handed trial lawyers at Viacom, representing Comedy Central, have asked YouTube to force its users to remove video clips from The Colbert...
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"A federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss out claims by thousands of emergency workers who sued New York City and about 150 private contractors after the workers were sickened by dust at the World Trade Center site."
"Three samples of cattle fecal matter from one ranch in California's Salinas Valley have tested positive for the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened 199 people in 26 states and left three dead after they ate contaminated spinach.
It's not certain that the ranch was...
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"Health authorities hunting the source of a nationwide E. coli outbreak are focusing on nine California farms after discovering what could be a crucial clue: an opened bag of spinach left in the refrigerator of someone sickened by the bacteria.
The bag of tainted Dole baby...
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