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Breakstone Cottage Cheese recall issued due to “foreign material”The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a voluntary recall of select varieties of Breakstone Cottage Cheese due to the potential presence of foreign material.… FDA issues yellowfin tuna recall, company refuses to recall said tunaA U.S. Food and Drug Administration recall is concerning enough. When is it an even bigger deal than normal? When the company that’s at the very heart of the… Despite the recall, the FDA wants consumers to know Zantac is relatively safeOver the last few months, there have been numerous U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalls due to carcinogen concerns in heartburn medications. We’ve written… Amid Zantac drug recall, FDA identifies “safe” heartburn drug alternativesThe popular heartburn medication Zantac has been recalled by the company and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) concerns. The… Dr. Reddy’s heartburn drug recalled over NDMA concernsDr. Reddy’s has joined the growing list of companies issuing a recall of heartburn medications. This week, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. and the U.S. Food… Potential asbestos contamination leads to baby powder recallSample testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder uncovered an asbestos contamination. The presence of the… Arsenic, lead, and other IQ lowering toxins found in 95% of tested baby foodsHealthy Babies Bright Futures recently conducted a study on baby food, and found that 95 percent of the nearly 170 foods tested contained lead, a known neurotoxin. The… Foreign object leads to recall of Butter Crunch Blue Bell ice creamA recall this week by Blue Bell Creameries is meant to ensure that a foreign object isn’t included as one of the toppings on your heaping bowl of Butter Crunch… J.M. Smucker Company joins the flour recall with E. coli concernsThe J.M. Smucker Company is matching King Arthur Flour Co. with a flour recall of their own. E. coli O26 concerns have resulted in a recall of Smucker’s Robin… Food AdditivesKing Arthur Flour expands their June recall of Unbleached All-Puropse FlourOn June 21st of this year we wrote about how 6 lots of King Arthur Flour were being recalled due to “the potential presence of E. coli.” originating with… Listeria concern results in extensive recall of E.A. Sween productsA large number of products that likely hit stores in the Continental U.S., Hawaii, and Guam have been recalled over Listeria monocytogenes concerns. The products are… Cheeses sold in Whole Foods Markets recalled due to possible listeria contaminationWhole Foods stores in the Northeast and North Atlantic have recalled Dorset cheese due to concerns of listeria contamination. As of the time this story was posted, no…
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