More Car Booster Seats Earn Top Grade for Child Safety
By Patrick Corcoran">Patrick Corcoran on September 8, 2010
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that car booster seats are being designed better to protect children.
The Associated Press reports that the institute, in rankings released Wednesday on ... Read more »
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BP Report on Gulf Well Blowout Disperses Blame to Contractors
By Elise Craig">Elise Craig on September 8, 2010
BP on Wednesday released its long-awaited internal report on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that called the disaster “a shared responsibility” caused by a “sequence of failures involving a ... Read more »
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FDA Warns 2 Firms to Curb Their Claims About Green Tea
By Elise Craig">Elise Craig on September 8, 2010
Two makers of green tea beverages have been warned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration not to make unauthorized claims about nutrients in their products. The action ... Read more »
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Unsafe at Any Meal
By Eric Schlosser on July 26, 2010
EVERY day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.
Those estimates, from the Centers for Disease ... Read more »
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