Enlarge / Sundrop is among the citrus soft drinks that still contains BVO. (credit: Sun Drop) The Food and Drug Administration may finally ban a food additive used in citrusy drinks that the agency determined over 50 years ago could not be considered generally safe. The agency proposed a ban on the additive Thursday. The ..
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Enlarge / Tom McClintock speaks to reporters with his wife, Lori, after participating in a debate at California State University, Sacramento, September 24, 2003, in Sacramento, California. reader comments 295 with 137 posters participating Share this story A garden-variety herbal remedy led to the abrupt and untimely death of Lori McClintock, the 61-year-old wife of ..
Enlarge / A woman applying cream in a mirror (not the woman at the center of this health story, though). reader comments 113 with 84 posters participating Share this story A 47-year-old woman in Sacramento, California, has been left severely impaired—unable to talk or care for herself and requiring a feeding tube—after using tainted face ..
Enlarge / Delicious, non-cancerous, coffee. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) After a judge ruled in March that coffee should be served with jolting labels that alert drinkers to a cancer risk, the state of California seems to have woken up to the concern that its pervasive health warnings may have gone too far. “There’s a danger ..