Word: fda
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...that adding salt is optional, 3) reduce the amount of sodium in processed foods and 4) offer many more low-sodium or salt-free products. He plans to follow up with a consumer-education program to ensure that labels are understood. Hayes already points to some victories. When the FDA first announced the crusade last April, only 13% of FDA-regulated food was labeled for sodium. Hayes expects that one-third to one-half will be by year's end. General Foods has already sodium-labeled its Shake 'n Bake, Post cereals and Birds Eye frozen vegetables; General...
...Inderal, plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to approve its use as a post-heart attack treatment. As it is, physicians are free to prescribe it since it is already approved for other uses. Many heart attack patients are taking Inderal for other heart-related conditions. The FDA is also expected to rule favorably soon on Merck Sharp & Dohme's application to introduce another beta blocker, timolol, into the U.S. for use after heart attacks...
...Stephen Kristovich raised a second argument: the drugs have never been tested to verify their safety and effectiveness in an execution. Said the attorneys: "They may actually result in agonizingly slow and painful deaths that are far more barbaric than those caused by the more traditional means." The FDA refused to intervene, maintaining that it should not meddle in state affairs...
...ahead actually was granted in 1974, but was stayed pending investigation of charges that aspartame might cause brain damage and that the animal studies submitted by manufacturer G.D. Searle were flawed. The charges were dismissed. However, the FDA says that aspartame should be avoided by victims of phenylketonuria, a condition characterized by the inability to metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, that can result in mental retardation. Aspartame contains phenylalanine and will carry a warning on the label...
...teaspoon of sugar, which has 16 calories. Aspartame will be sold in tablet or granulated form to consumers next year under the brand name "Equal." Under the name "NutraSweet," it will be a food additive used in breakfast cereals, dessert mixes and powdered drinks. Searle plans to seek FDA permission soon to extend its use to carbonated soft drinks...