The amount of trans fat in the American bloodstream fell by more than half after the Food and Drug Administration required food manufacturers to label how much of the unhealthful ingredient is in their products, according to a new study . Read full article > >

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Trans-fat blood levels plummet after FDA food-labeling regulation

Even though the Consumer Electronics Show is the world’s biggest technology convention, companies are seeking ways to introduce their products on their own.

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Even as more Americans buy foods labeled organic, the products are moving away from a traditional emphasis on local growing and limited environmental strain.

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The ultimate goal of manufacturers who are offering new, less-concentrated infant versions of the painkiller acetaminophen is to provide sick babies with sufficient relief without risking overdose. But in the short term, the changes may perplex parents. In response to incidents in which infants have been severely sickened or died after receiving overdoses of the painkiller and fever reducer, many manufacturers have voluntarily offered less-concentrated versions of their products. The higher-dose versions were considered beneficial they required babies to swallow less liquid. But in some cases babies consuming too much of the over-the-counter medication suffered liver failure, which can be fatal. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — Department store chain J.C. Penney Co. is looking to homemaking doyenne Martha Stewart as it takes one big step toward re-imagining itself under its new CEO, a former Apple Inc. executive. “A store has to be much more than the products that it sells,” Ron Johnson said in an interview with The Associated Press. “That’s what I learned from Apple. You can really move product and change and enrich people’s lives.” Read full article > >

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Cuban farmers will be allowed to sell their products directly to tourist businesses under new rules to be introduced next month.

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The country’s leading regulator of everyday consumer items is embroiled in an increasingly nasty ideological battle over the role of government oversight that is being fought on the terrain of toys, cribs and other products. With the Consumer Product Safety Commission split along party lines, the partisan paralysis that has crippled Washington’s ability to balance its budget and fix the economy now threatens to spread to the more prosaic business of government: assuring that roughly 15,000 products are reasonably safe to use. Read full article > >

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Partisan gridlock threatens Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation

Generic drug makers would pay $299 million a year to underwrite government inspections of manufacturing plants abroad, reducing the risk of tainted drugs and speeding approval of their products.

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Styrene, which is used to make those ubiquitous white foam coffee cups, food containers and many other products, is probably a human carcinogen, the federal government declared Friday. The declaration came in the government’s latest update of its official list of known or possible carcinogens. It categorized for­mal­dehyde, a chemical widely used to make many products, and a family of substances found in some herbal remedies as known carcinogens. Officials stressed that the listings do not mean that any exposure to the substances will cause cancer. Instead, it means that the latest scientific evidence indicates that the agents can cause cancer in some people exposed to enough of the compounds under the right circumstances. Most of the evidence for a cancer risk came from people exposed to relatively high levels in industrial settings. Read full article > >

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Formaldehyde, styrene among substances deemed carcinogens or likely to cause cancer

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Lather up pooches with Skinnyskinny’s organically moisturizing bar soap The “people-tested” Fetching Dog Shampoo from Brooklyn-based body care brand Skinny Skinny works on any pup, but was created specifically for dogs with sensitive skin. Comprised of all organic ingredients like rosemary, citronella and ylang ylang, the potent suds keep insects at a distance while loading up on moisture to alleviate irritation. The handmade bar soap, designed to be a mutually beneficial experience for both owner and dog, creates a nice low-foam lather. Skinny Skinny’s shampoo is 100% carbon neutral, purchasing wind-powered electricity to fuel their small-batch operation and carbon credits for everything else. They also use recycled paper and soy-based inks for their no-frills packaging. Skinny Skinny Organic Fetching Dog Shampoo sells online for $8 per bar, or from their shop in Brooklyn, along with a nice assortment of products for people.

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Someone get her a flag pin for her lapel: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy tells a French paper, “I don’t really feel left-wing anymore.” Having previously said, “I would never vote Right,” Bruni-Sarkozy says her previous leftist positions were the products of an…

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Thousands of chickens are culled in Germany and 1,000 farms ordered to stop selling their products because of a dioxin scandal.

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West Midlands-based company Tarmac Building Products announces it is to cut 550 jobs due to “tough market conditions”.

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A Johnson & Johnson unit announced a nationwide recall of more than 13 million packages of Rolaids after reports of consumers finding metal and wood particles in the products.

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