Home cooks should take a close look at their pots, pans and kitchen utensils due to a risk of “significant levels of lead” leaching into food, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency recently posted an alert regarding a Kada/Karahi Tiger White pure aluminum bowl because of associated health risks discovered during recent testing and shared which …
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FDA Announces Recall on Cheese Due to Listeria Risk
FDA recalls Wegmans cheeses in 10 states and regions due to possible Listeria contamination. Affected cheese include Camembert, Brie and assorted flights sold in July and August. No illnesses reported, and Wegmans is offering full refunds for impacted customers. There’s an active recall on multiple types of cheese sold in 10 states and regions, according to the U.S. Food and …
Read More »FDA issues urgent recall of popular coffee sold nationwide after customers find GLASS in it
By ALEXA LARDIERI, US DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR Published: 14:14, 13 August 2025 | Updated: 14:37, 13 August 2025 A popular coffee product sold in all but two US states is being recalled after the company received consumer reports that glass shards were found in it. Dollar General announced its voluntary recall of Clover Valley Instant Coffee on Monday ‘due to …
Read More »FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer Covid shot for children under 5
A nurse prepares doses of the Pfizer vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccination event at Josephine’s Southern Cooking in Chatham, Illinois, Dec. 30, 2021. Brian Cassella | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration is weighing revoking its authorization of Pfizer‘s Covid-19 vaccine for healthy children under the age of 5, the drugmaker confirmed to CNBC on …
Read More »Healthcare soaps recalled: FDA cites risk of life-threatening infections
Several types of soap distributed throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico have been recalled over microbial contamination identified as Burkholderia cepacia. According to the Food and Drug Administration, multiple lots of four different types of soap are part of the recall. The entire list, including product descriptions, lot codes, expiration dates and reorder numbers can be found here. The FDA …
Read More »Ousted FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad returning to agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Food and Drug Administration official is getting his job back as the agency’s top vaccine regulator, less than two weeks after he was pressured to step down at the urging of biotech executives, patient groups and conservative allies of President Donald Trump. Dr. Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of the FDA center that regulates vaccines and …
Read More »UCSF doctor reinstated at FDA less than 2 weeks after resigning amid MAGA backlash – San Francisco Chronicle
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Read More »Vinay Prasad returns to role as top vaccine regulator at FDA days after leaving US agency – Reuters
Vinay Prasad returns to role as top vaccine regulator at FDA days after leaving US agency Reuters Top vaccine regulator returns to FDA after recent firing Politico Loomer Rages at Return of FDA Chief She Pushed to Oust Over ‘Voodoo’ Claims The Daily Beast UCSF doctor reinstated at FDA less than 2 weeks after resigning amid MAGA backlash San Francisco Chronicle Vinay Prasad returns …
Read More »US FDA approves Boehringer Ingelheim's lung cancer treatment – Reuters
US FDA approves Boehringer Ingelheim’s lung cancer treatment Reuters Top German Pharma Boehringer Wins US Approval for Cancer Drug Bloomberg.com FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Zongertinib for Nonsquamous NSCLC With HER2 TKD Mutations OncLive Amol Akhade: Zongertinib – A New Targeted Therapy Option for a Rare Molecular Subset of Lung Cancer Oncodaily Boehringer Ingelheim breaks into oncology with FDA approval for lung cancer med …
Read More »Vinay Prasad returns to FDA days after leaving under pressure from Laura Loomer | Trump administration
Vinay Prasad is returning to his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy and blood product regulation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a little more than a week after he left the agency. “At the FDA’s request, Dr Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” Department Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon …
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