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Trans Fats Adding Inches to the Waistline

...ires manufacturers to label trans fats on all food labels with its maximum allowed content being two per cent of them. The Americans have followed suit since January this year. In UK manufacturers are still not required by law to list the trans fats content of food. Thereby scientists advise avoiding frie...

Classes on Proper Use of Diet Supplements for Low Income Group Elders

...lcium supplements and were more likely to read the labels on dietary supplements than adults who did not take the classes. The program also persuaded more people to carry a list of their medications and discuss supplement use with their doctors. Although the overall effects seem small, study authors Roger M...

Salty Diet Pack Cancerous Punch In Children

...stead of its sodium content with standardised food labels – said TSI. About 37 TSI officers from both England and Wales made the survey of 279 food products successful, which includes breakfast cereals, lunch box foods, snacks, crisps, desserts, sweets, chocolate, ready meals, biscuits, bars, pizzas and ...

Medicine MRPs to Include Tax

...s at reasonable prices. They also announced that labels on medicines strips would be bilingual, both in Hindi and English, to benefit the people. The members also agreed that the maximum allowable post-manufacturing expense (MAPE) should not be more than 100 percent as this level was considered adequate...

Spurious Drugs Seized In Allahabad

...his connection for possession of drugs having fake labels of costly life-saving medicines//. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a drug store in Leader Road and seized the spurious medicines. The owner of the store was arrested, officials said. The store owner confessed that the fake medicines, who...

Are Cereals A Health Hazard?

...nd other processed food firms to use traffic light labels to help families make healthier choices. The system relies on color (red, amber and green) coded logos on the packs, to identify a product based on its fat, sugar and salt content. Eighty eight percent of the children’s cereals were high in sugar,...

Watch Out for the Sugar and Salt Content of the Popular Breakfast Cereals

...standards put forth by FSA of red, amber and green labels on front of the packs so that it would be easier for shoppers to pick out healthier products even though the cereal manufacturers are against this labelling scheme. ...

Chinese PLA Names Bogus Army Medical Bodies Selling Fake Drugs

...and forged subscriptions, seals, receipts and drug labels purporting to come from military medical institutions were seized in Beijing. Fake drugs worth of 150,000 yuan (18,750 US dollars) were confiscated in the largest such case of fraud yet. China intensified the crackdown against fake drugs following t...

Scientists Push for Labeling of all Fats to Avoid Heart Disease

All fats should be listed on food labels to help cut heart disease, according to researcher...lesterol in addition to saturated fat on nutrition labels for all manufactured foods. The UK Food Standards Agency is now pressing for revision of the Euro...

Shampoo Ingredient Interferes With Memory In Mice

...ution. But it would probably be prudent to look at labels and try to limit exposure until we know more." The study appears in the August issue of the FASEB Journal, published by The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology....

Experts Call For Ban On Junk Foods To Reduce Obesity and Diabetes

...levying taxes on junk foods, and clear color-coded labels on food products to denote nutritional quality. In the article they have noted that it is time to acknowledge that measures to control obesity like promoting exercise and eating healthy food have failed, and have further said that "Health profess...

RA Drugs Not Implicated In Cancer

...ion to mandate adding a cancer risk warning to the labels of three TNF blockers: etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade), and adalimumab (Humira). Motivated by persistent concerns and inconclusive studies, researchers at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital set out to investigate the a...

Most Women Unaware of Nutrient Needed for Babies’ Development During Pregnanc

... healthy alternative. Women should check nutrition labels and ask their grocers and health care providers what foods contain algal-based sources of DHA. Algal-based DHA is also available as a supplement. Other Survey Findings: ? Wishful thinking: If they could choose to add DHA to a food, more than a th...

The need for cancer warnings on alcohol packaging

...rnings on alcohol packaging."We actually print the labels here, put them on the alcohol, send it overseas to these countries, yet we don't do that for our own citizens," he said."It's something that the Australian Government has been slow in legislating for and we think it's about time that we definitely mo...

Botulism cases trigger warning to keep carrot juice chilled

...efrigerated" or "refrigerate after opening" on all labels to know whether or not a product needs to be refrigerated." Occasional checking of temperatures of refrigerators/freezers should be done. According to the FDA, the temperatures should be less than 40°F for refrigerators and not more than 0°F for f...

ADHD drugs may induce psychiatric side-effects

...drugs used to control ADHD, will need to carry new labels with warnings, by the beginning of December. Canadian adults and children have been advised to use such drugs with caution, especially if patients suffer high blood pressure, heart disease or other heart problems. It is estimated that nearly 25 dea...

Are Food Labels Intelligible?

New York - To gauge the efficacy of food labels and test if it meets the intended purpose, researc...n. The pointers that consumers often check on food labels would most certainly hover around fat, calorie and sugar content of the food product. The results...

Stereotypes Contribute to Older Men Seeking, Receiving Depression Care Less Frequently

...ial approach might be to de-emphasize professional labels and place more emphasis on symptoms and sources of stress. Health-care providers interviewed by the UC Davis researchers suggested other strategies, such as using an open-ended interview style, using less direct or clinical (i.e., threatening) langua...

The FDA Will Do Well To Fine-Tune Drug Safety Norms

...t post-approval research of drugs as well as alter labels and warnings appropriately. While petitioning for an end to the politicization of the FDA, the editors said in a statement, “We face a mounting public health crisis in drug safety, and definitive action must be taken. The IOM committee's report is...

Labeling of Dairy Products with Trans fat labels, Misleading to Consumers

... trans fats. Mensink said that a move to introduce labels in Europe displaying the levels of trans fat in fo...ade mandatory in Canada and the United States that labels list the amount of artificial trans fat content in food products in order to encourage healthier eat...

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