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Coke and Pepsi Blink, Will Tone Down Dubious Caramel Coloring

Coke and Pepsi Blink, Will Tone Down Dubious Caramel Coloring. It’s practically a modern-day David-and-Goliath story, with a nonprofit watchdog dealing two huge Fortune 500 cola companies a significant blow in a battle for America’s public health.

On one side stands The Coca-Cola Company, ranked by Fortune 500 as the 256th largest company in the world, with almost 140,000 employees and 2010 revenues of US$35 million, joined by PepsiCo, the world’s 137th largest company with 290,000 employees and US$57 million in 2010 earnings. Together they sold 9.4 billion cases of softdrinks in 2009 in the United States alone, cornering 90 percent of the market.

On the other, a 41-year-old nonprofit health watchdog with a little over 50 staff members, a small budget that relies mainly on subscriptions and individual donors, and a lofty mission of representing the citizen’s interests on food, health and environmental issues. Its weapon? The state of California’s Proposition 65, a local law that aims to protect state residents from toxic substances.

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Is Gerber Safe for Your Baby? Gerber Recalls Baby Formula For Off-odor

Gerber Safe for Your Baby: Gerber Recalls Baby Formula For Off-odor. Due to complaints of foul odor and gastrointestinal problems, Gerber Products Co has voluntarily recalled some of its Good Start Gentle powdered infant formula, both the company and the federal regular announced on March 9.

Geber said it’s offering a replacement for the recalled formula — a 23.2 ounce plastic package from batch GXP1684.

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Are Prilosec & Mevacor Sold Over the Counter?

FDA mulls bringing key drugs over-the-counter and medications for high blood pressure, diabetes and migraine may be the first to make the switch.

It’s driven by many things: Drug companies seeking more profits, as well as the rapid developments in medical technologies that have led to touch-screen kiosks in pharmacies that patients can use to self-diagnose common diseases. It’s also motivated by a need to address undertreated epidemics like diabetes.

Overall, it means nothing less than a sea change in the United States drug regulation policy.

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Bisphenol-A Toxicity: Campbell’s Soup, French Ban, FDA Health Studies

Bisphenol-A Toxicity: Campbell’s Soup, French Ban, FDA Health Studies. The FDA is set to decide on a bisphenol-A ban on all food packaging — even as French authorities ban food packaging-BPA and Campbell’s Soup announces it will soon substitute BPA in its canned soup.

It’s a triple victory for public health advocates and environmentalists long pushing for bisphenol-A (BPA) to be taken out of food packaging in the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is set to decide whether it will ban the toxic chemical BPA from all food packaging, prodded by a series of legal actions from environmental groups and a recent French move to ban the chemical in all food packaging. The agency’s decision is expected by March 31.

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Hyaluron Swisscode Serum Side Effects & Safety

Hyaluron Swisscode Serum Side Effects & Safety. Do facial serums that contain hyaluronic acid work? And are they safe? Maybe they work, but there’s no evidence. And where safety is concerned, what researchers have found so far is that there are no major hazards associated with the use of hyaluronic acid serums — but there aren’t enough safety studies to say this for sure.

Doctors say they’re safe when used the way they’re supposed to be: to treat osteoarthritis and to replace eye fluid during eye operations. Still, they’re generally safe and allergic reactions are rare.

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Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: MRK003 + Gemcitabine Combo Works Better?

Pancreatic Cancer Treatment: MRK003 + Gemcitabine Combo mixture offers new hope in fight versus pancreatic cancer. It’s an aggressive disease and worse, by the time symptoms show up enough to be diagnosed, it’s usually advanced and the cancer has spread to distant organs in the body. By this time, treatment options are limited and usually, futile.

When the cancer has spread, patients have an average survival of between two and six months. Five-year survival rates are very low — around five percent — according to the United States National Cancer Institute.

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