Category: Is it Safe | Food Drug Medicine Safety

Pink Slime in Ground Beef: Safety, Health Risk, Bad Side Effects? Americans are just about up in arms over ‘pink slime,’ livid over the fact that the unappetizing industrial sludge of cow connective tissue and low-grade beef scraps treated with ammonium hydroxide has quietly found its way into 70 percent of supermarket beef — and even school lunches across the nation.

Anger over pink slime in ground beef has dominated the news for the past week. On March 6, “The Lunch Tray” blogger, Bettina Elias Siegel, started a petition to remove pink slime from school food. As of Tuesday, almost 200,000 people had signed. Siegel plans to present the petition to the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Are China’s Pet Food – Jerky Treats – Safe For Your Dogs? Involved in a massive recall in 2007, when over 8,500 pets in the United States reportedly died from eating them, chicken jerky treats from China have again been under fire in the past few months since November.

The tainted pet food is again implicated in a growing number of dog deaths — and this time, the United States Food and Drug Administration stands accused of foot-dragging on the issue.

Since 2007, the FDA has issued three advisories on the chicken jerky, warning pet owners to be cautious about giving the pet food to their dogs. It issued the first cautionary warning on the chicken jerky products in September 2007, and a new Preliminary Animal Health Notification in December of 2008.

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Red Bull Addiction, Demi Moore, and Side Effects of Energy Drinks: Actress and cougar icon Demi Moore’s recent collapse from what appears to be a Red Bull overdose brings to fore a number of studies that say drinking caffeine-based energy beverages is bad for your health.

Last February (2011), in fact, a team of researchers urged United States health authorities to regulate Red Bull and other energy drinks that contain high levels of caffeine and other stimulants.

The researchers made their call after their study showed that drinking these beverages put children and young adults at risk for serious heart, kidney and liver and other health problems. The research team had looked at Red Bull, Spike Shooter, Redline and other energy drink brands that are popular with university students and adventure sports enthusiasts.

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Do PFCs reduce vaccine effectiveness? The dangers they pose are not fully known, but they’re everywhere. PFCs — perfluorinated compounds — are found in household items like Teflon pans, microwave popcorn bags and pizza boxes, stain repellants, floor wax, carpet treatments and some shampoos.

PFCs don’t break down easily and they’re often found in the environment and wildlife, and dispersed into the air and water by industrial waste from some chemical plants.

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Silicone Buttocks Injection: Safe or Unsafe? Good or Bad? Deadly Side Effects? A firm, round and juicy-looking butt. Many women today seek just that, after pop icons Jennifer Jopez, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian have turned the “big booty” into one of a woman’s most desired assets. And some women are even willing to die to get one.

Early last year, medics rushed to a Philadelphia hotel, responding to a 20-year old British woman who was having chest pains and difficulty breathing.

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The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to buy or use Slimming Capsules and Celerite Slimming Tea, two popular weight-loss products, because they contain a controlled substance that can increase blood pressure and pulse rate in those who take it.

Slimming Capsules and Celerite Slimming Tea, sold on various websites as a dietary supplements to lose weight makes false claims of being a “safe” and an “all-natural herbal weight loss remedy,” the FDA said in two advisories published early in 2011.

FDA laboratory analysis confirmed that Slimming Capsules and Celerite Slimming Tea both contain sibutramine, a controlled substance withdrawn from the U.S. market in October 2010 for safety reasons.

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