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Though wildly successful, the MLM business model has opened supplement companies to a persistent complaint: the stuff doesn't work as claimed. Because independent marketers are not scrutinized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the business has long been criticized for pushing unwarranted claims through its network of sellers. "While you have the FDA breathing down your neck about what your company can legally say, distributors like Bob and Mary can tell their friends whatever they want," says Dan Hurley, author of the forthcoming exposé Natural Causes. He writes that aside from fish oil, vitamin D and a handful...
It’s not anything close to a leap back to the era of free love, but it is a step toward safer sex and preventing cancer. In June, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had approved Gardasil as a vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. Subsequently, the Center for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that girls receive the vaccine routinely at age 11 or 12. The vaccine offers a major breakthrough in women’s health...
Gardasil is not a panacea for preventing cervical cancer: It isn’t absolutely effective, and women should continue to undergo regular cervical cancer screening. But the health benefits of the vaccine are already promising. We commend both the FDA and UHS for making the vaccine more readily accessible, and we commend the ACIP for its recommendations...
...first cases were called in to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), health officials have finally found what they believe could be the smoking gun in the 23-state outbreak of spinach-related E. coli poisoning. Until Wednesday, investigators at the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had only suspected that fresh, bagged spinach had caused nearly 150 people to fall ill, and led to one death, from the bacterial infection. Researchers had not been able to trace the bacteria to fresh spinach until they tested one of several opened bags of the leafy vegetable from the homes...
...Investigators still don't know how the greens became contaminated with E. coli 0157, but they have descended on the Salinas Valley, which local farmers proudly call the Salad Bowl to the World. Because E. coli normally originates from the feces of people or animals, a team from the FDA is inspecting sanitation procedures used both in the fields and in processing plants, and looking into water-quality logs and even weather patterns, to determine if flooding or poor drainage caused contaminated runoff to bring the bacteria into contact with produce...