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Allergic Individuals Should Keep Away from Cats, Say UK Scientists

... lovers, otherwise allergic, beware. Cuddling your pet could prove bad for your lungs. UK researchers have found that a protein secreted from the cats skin could irritate the lungs and exacerbate the symptoms of asthma, even in people who have no specific allergy to the animals. Of course the problem...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

...ated this wheat gluten was added to almost all the pet food. Some pet food was found to have melamine and melamine like products in them. This melamine is used in ferti...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

...y. If the parents suffer from hay fever, asthma or pet allergies, their children are more likely to also show allergic symptoms. The study also shows that risk families in particular must still be advised not to keep cats and to avoid contact with cats in general. This, however, does not guarantee suffic...

US Halts Import of Chinese Toothpaste

...times for Chinese exporters. After the furore over pet food, it is now the turn of the toothpaste manufacturers to go under the scanner. The federal government has announced it is stopping all imports of Chinese toothpaste till the Food and Drug Administration decides whether the product contains diet...

US Consumers Warned Against Toxic Chinese Fish

First pet food, then tooth paste and now fish. There just seems to be no end to the troubles for Chinese exporters. Only two days ago the US put on hold all imports of Chinese toothpaste till the FDA comes out with its finding on whether it contains diethyl...

'Man's Best Friend' Could Be a Useful Companion in Overcoming Depression

...an help people with depression. The majority of pet owners feel their pets are extremely important whe...hy. Half of people with a dog believe that their pet makes a major difference to their lives, ranking increased exercise and companionship as the two mos...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

... in 1997. Koehlers research group found that all pet cats of AIDS patients infected by B. henselae also...their blood. In fact, about 41 percent of all the pet cats they tested in the San Francisco area had this bacterium in their blood. This work, detailed in...

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...r.US inspectors have also faulted exported Chinese pet food ingredients, containing melamine, for the deaths of pet animals in North America....

Chinese Chilli Flunks Food Safety Tests

...port markets. In one of the highest-profile cases, pet food contaminated by additives originating in Chin...ousands of dogs and cats in the United States. The pet food was tainted with the chemical melamine, a substance used in fertilisers and plastics, which fou...

Hong Kong Warning on 'unsafe' Toothpaste

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

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...tential 2016 Tokyo summer Olympics, the governor's pet project. "The site is narrow, dangerous, not really clean, and asbestos is used in various spots in the facilities, although they are sealed up," Ishihara said in a recent news conference. "What happens if a natural disaster occurs and asbestos s...

China Admits Fake Blood Protein Used in Drips

...ozens of deaths in Panama. Anti-malarial drugs and pet food have also been found to contain contaminated or fake ingredients. The US and European Union have expressed concern over food and drug imports from China, and have pressed Beijing to improve its oversight....

FDAs Failure Urges It to Reassess Its Policies

...ia diabetes pill and the contamination of imported pet food. California farmers have instituted voluntar...roduced food, amid the importation of contaminated pet food and tainted toothpaste from China. Earlier this year, the FDA, in the wake of last year's E. co...

Cats at Home Poses Allergy Risk in Young Children

...y. If the parents suffer from hay fever, asthma or pet allergies, their children are more likely to also show allergic symptoms”. The study also shows that risk families in particular must still be advised not to keep cats and to avoid contact with cats in general. This, however, does not guarantee suffi...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

...ated this wheat gluten was added to almost all the pet food. Some pet food was found to have melamine and melamine like products in them. This melamine is used in ferti...

Chinese Cooks Spoil the Broth

...U.S. federal officials pointed out that the recent pet food contaminations due to melamine that caused ma...attempt by China to enhance the protein content in pet food. There are many questions being raised, and China is going to have to deal with food safety is...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...spinach, contamination of peanut butter as well as pet food. Around 200 persons were affected by consu...ods, as well as Menu Foods which had to recall its pet food after it was found contaminated with bad wheat gluten. Says Bart Stupak, chairman of the Over...

Pigs Quarantined in US Farm Following Melamine Contamination

The melamine contamination of pet food continues to takes it toll in the US. Now a h...athrop facility, from which the hog farm buys its pet food. So from wheat gluten to rice protein, the melamine trail seems to continue. In March last t...

Baby Foods That Prevent Obesity and Diabetes in Adulthood to Hit the Market Soon

...in-based products may also find their way into the pet obesity market. Edinburgh researcher Jonathan Seckl says. 'We need to know whether leptin is acting pre- and post-natally, figure out how it works, and dissect the possible side-effects before this becomes a potential approach for humans. Nonethel...

E Coli Outbreak Forces Large-scale Recall of Beef Products

After pet foods and toys it is the turn of beef products to be recalled on a massive scale in the US, following fears of E coli outbreak. Four of the five reporting// symptoms of the disease have been hospitalized so far. E. coli, or Escherichia coli, is a c...

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