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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five deaths have now been linked to an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning linked to peanut butter, but the strain involved is not particularly virulent, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The company that sells Little Debbie snacks announced a recall Sunday of peanut butter crackers because of a potential link to a deadly salmonella outbreak....

BEIJING (Reuters) - A wide range of food products, especially some Western liquors and domestic peanut oils, have failed quality tests in south China, state media reported on Friday in the latest in a series of food-safety scares.

Q: Your advice to the vegan wife who got Hickory Farms sausages from her father-in-law was good except one very important part. You should have advised her to donate the unwanted food to a food pantry. There are thousands of starving families and children.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- What began as an investigation of bulk peanut butter shipped to nursing homes and institutional cafeterias has broadened with the Kellogg Co. recalling 16 products and federal officials confirming salmonella contamination at a Georgia facility that ships peanut products to 85 food companies...

Four conservative religious leaders from North Carolina Thursday called on Sen. Richard Burr to drop his opposition to a tobacco regulation bill he blocked last year.The measure Burr opposes would let the Food and Drug Administration regulate cigarettes and tobacco products, possibly leading to better labeling and, the ministers say, almost certainly saving lives."This is a simplistic issue: Place public health above politics. This is not about Democrats and Republicans. In fact, I am a registered Republican and supporter of Senator Burr," said the Rev. Curtis Norris, a pastor from Olivia and former president of the Missionary Methodist Conference of North Carolina. . . .Gathered at an office park in Raleigh, the four ministers pointed to a bill that passed the House last year. It would have given the fda authority to regulate tobacco products.That measure did not advance through the Senate, in large part because Burr, a Republican, threatened to filibuster it.At the time, B

By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1°C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol, UK. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1°C, almost 20% of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution.

IN THESE times of economic hardship, eating can be one of life's little indulgences: a chance to enjoy a beautifully cooked meal, a glass of wine and convivial company.

.ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISTA), announced that ISTA's New Drug Application (NDA) for Bepreve(TM) (bepotastine ophthalmic solution) has been accepted for review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Company is seeking approval for Bepreve as an eye drop treatment for ocular itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis. The Company expects a standard review of ten months and has been given a user fee action date of September 12, 2009.

Tikcro Technologies Ltd. (OTCBB: TIKRF) announced that BioCancell Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, had received approval from the US Food and Drug Authority (FDA) to commence Phase I/IIa clinical trials in patients suffering from ovarian and pancreatic cancer, with the primary purpose of measuring the safety and primary efficiency of the BC-819 drug in a series of dose escalations.