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...Equal opportunity? The right to choose? Wage discrimination? No, these women were out to tackle a much more menacing threat: the reintroduction of silicone breast implants. Armed with graphic pictures of women whose breasts implants had ruptured or been removed, the protesters demanded that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delay consideration of the issue before further research was conducted...
...product's food label. (One set of figures is regulated by the Department of Agriculture, and the other, which appears on product labels, is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.) A single serving of pasta is 1/2 cup (cooked) according to the USDA, 1 cup according to the FDA and at least 2 cups according to most families...
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FOODS (ACADEMIC PRESS; 2002); USDA; FDA...
...nursing women should eat no more than 12 oz. of fish a week and completely avoid swordfish, shark, mackerel and tilefish. (The rest of us can eat these once or twice a month.) It's uncertain whether tuna is a concern for children and pregnant women, but the FDA gives it safe marks for the rest...
...smokers who suffer from the symptoms of tobacco cravings." Quick Test 5, the company that makes NICOWater, initially marketed it as a dietary supplement but came under fire from antitobacco organizations. The product is now sold as a homeopathic drug. A coalition of public-health groups has petitioned the FDA to pull the product from the market. The FDA says, "No action has yet been taken...