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Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

...wer pots, buckets and barrels. Change the water in pet dishes and replace the water in bird baths weekly. Drill holes in tire swings so water drains out. Keep children's wading pools empty and on their sides when they aren't being used....

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

...-week-old girl died of salmonella transmitted by a pet turtle, while 22 other people were infected by the small reptiles across the United States since September, health authorities said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed the incidents in a weekly report dated Friday remind...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...hich is used to make products from cheese puffs to pet food. Alavi is researching how this process can be used to make fiber-enriched flour taste like the kind used in most cookies and tortillas so that manufacturers can make a more healthful snacking alternative that consumers want to eat. Alavi note...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

...hich is used to make products from cheese puffs to pet food. Alavi is researching how this process can be used to make fibre-enriched flour taste like the kind used in most cookies and tortillas so that manufacturers can make a more healthful snacking alternative that consumers want to eat. Alavi no...

Top China Official Pessimistic on Fixing Food Safety Woes

...un said. Reports in the United States of tainted pet foods, dangerous toys, drugs, fish, cosmetics and other products have led to a spate of recalls and bans there. Chinese officials have blamed foreign media for 'sensationalist' reports. Authorities have seized a number of US-made imports on safety ...

China Bans Sales of Leukemia Drug in Latest Medicine Scare

... from foods and medicines, to toothpaste, toys and pet food....

Food Safety Chief Executed for Bribery in China

...om China. The gluten is used in the manufacture of pet food. The scare resulted in recall of around 100 b...om China. The gluten is used in the manufacture of pet food. The scare resulted in recall of around 100 brands. Subsequently there was this report of con...

Ginger Spice Determined to Win Bulimia Battle

... way between the London sessions. Accompanied by pet shitzu Harry, Geri spent 15 minutes at the West End's Life Works facility, which deals with a range of addictions. Geri, who will join a Spice Girls reunion tour this winter, subsequently spent an hour at Over/Under Eaters Anonymous. Bulimia is a...

China Launches Food Safety Checks in Run-up to Olympics

...from toxic toothpaste ingredients to faulty tyres, pet food and toxic seafood. China Thursday announced fresh measures to ensure substandard drugs are stopped from reaching stores. The nation's food and drug watchdog will have to abide by new regulations to improve transparency in the approval proces...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...cent animal-human health interaction example where pet food contaminants that killed a small number of animals moved rapidly into the human food chain. Says H. Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University in Indiana: "We're in a situation now where we're talk...

US Health Insurance Firms Suspend Sales, Promise to End Fraudulent Practices

...ter authority to address a consumer's problem with pet insurance.'' U.S. officials did little to stop the abusive sales practices, according to state insurance agencies. Senator Herb Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the committee, said at the hearing that he would work with the National A...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

...hemical melamine to protein products later used in pet food for US and Canadian markets. The companies used administrative loopholes to dodge inspections, Li said. Also shut down was a factory in eastern China that produced diethylene glycol, an ingredient normally used in anti-freeze. The company ...

China Toothpaste Maker Pulls Suspect Ingredient

...dogs and cats, believed to have eaten contaminated pet food imported from China....

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...of animals in the United States were poisoned from pet food additives made in China, one of a series of incidents that have exposed lax controls in Beijing's food quality control system. "At this time, there have been no reports of illness or injury as a result of this issue," the company said Wednesda...

Some Common Human Injuries Also Common in Dogs

...itis and congenital diseases. Fortunately for both pet owner and pet, there are veterinarians who can treat these ailments and get pets back on their feet. James Roush, an orthopedic surgeon at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at Kansas State University, is one such veterinarian. Roush frequen...

China to Overhaul Food Safety Rules

...overseas ranging from toothpaste to herbal teas to pet food. US authorities rejected 257 Chinese food shipments in April, far more than from any other country, US press reports said. The United States has rejected Chinese products ranging from tainted dietary supplements and toxic cosmetics to fish and...

Four-legged Friends Connect Online at Dogster

...rnet, Dogster and Catster members share tips about pet care or animal behavior. "If you have any quest... A recently added feature lets people find local pet services such as veterinarians, groomers, trainers, or dog walkers and learn how they are rated by p...

Two Year Probation for Cobra Owner Helder Claro

Helder claro a pet shop owner was sentenced to two years probation fo...ral occasions in 2005 while briefly working in his pet shop. One of the girls testified that Claro terrified her by talking about letting snakes loose in p...

China Uncovers Thousands of Dangerous Foods

...verseas. Reports in the United States of tainted pet foods, dangerous toys, drugs, fish, cosmetics and other products from China have led to a spate of recalls and bans there. In Panama, at least 80 people are believed to have died from taking a cough syrup contaminated with a toxic substance importe...

US to Detain Seafood Imports from China

...s of cats and dogs died because of tainted Chinese pet food. Dangerous toys, fake drugs, toxin-coated cosmetics, illicit pesticide-laden mushrooms, errant fireworks, tainted toothpaste and other Chinese products have led to recalls and bans and potentially more stringent import and food safety laws. ...

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