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The FDA proposed to ban brominated vegetable oil. Here's how to tell if it's in your food, and why the FDA thinks it's unsafe to drink.

Fri, 11/03/2023 - 16:44

Glass of fruit juice on the left next to a list of ingredients on the right including brominated vegetable oil. — Check the ingredients list for traces of brominated vegetable oil.
Stefania Pelfini, La Waziya Photography / Getty Images / Amazon

Science, health, Soda, thyroid, food-and-drug-administration

Panera Bread warns people 'sensitive to caffeine' not to drink its Charged Lemonade following wrongful-death lawsuit

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:10

Panera Bread Charged Lemonade with caffeine label — Panera's Charged Lemonade got an updated description with lots of warnings.
Panera Bread

Retail, panera, panera-bread, Lemonade, lawsuit, wrongful-death, FDA

No, California didn't ban Skittles. Here's what it did ban.

Wed, 10/11/2023 - 04:30

Bags of skittles on a shelf — Rumors are swirling that Skittles are going to be banned in California, but they aren't true.
Mario Tama/Getty Images

Retail, Law, Skittles, Candy, California, gavin-newsom, titanium-dioxide

Your cold pills could be yanked off the shelf. An FDA panel just ruled some of them don't work.

Tue, 09/12/2023 - 13:39

Shelf stocked with cold medicines including Sudafed and Tylenol. — Certain cold medications could be pulled from the shelves after the FDA ruled that phenylephrine doesn't work.
AP Photo

Healthcare, Retail, cold-and-flu, associatd-press, tylenol, Flu, advil

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