Gilchrist & Soames, an Indianapolis-based provider of toiletry products for the hotel industry, has initiated a worldwide voluntary recall of its Gilchrist & Soames 0.65oz/18ml toothpaste manufactured in China for the company by Ming Fai Enterprises International Co., LTD, after independent tests showed some samples of the toothpaste contained diethylene glycol, or DEG.
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA), which represents the leading manufacturers of baby bottles in the United States is aware of the panel evaluation of bisphenol A, organized by the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR).
How do consumers look at advertisements? Most marketing textbooks advance the theory that looking at ads is a predominantly ?dumb process,? driven by visual stimuli such as the size of the ad or the color of the text. However, new research by researchers from the Netherlands and the University of Michigan uses eye-tracking software to reveal that it may be our goals ? the tasks we have in mind ? that drive what we pay attention to, even during a few seconds of ad exposure.
Cost Plus World Market, a leading retailer of casual home living and entertaining products, announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer products: Red, blue, green, and yellow speckleware beverage containers with SKU numbers 370549, 391163, 378321, 378322; and glass water tank retro w/spout with SKU number 378251.
American women have gotten fatter as it has become more socially acceptable to carry a few extra pounds, according to a new study.
As health care quality and patient safety concerns rise, the latest Commonwealth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey finds leaders united behind several key reform measures:
The new draft Regulations Relating to the Labelling and Advertising of Foodstuffs have been published by the Minister of Health in terms of the Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, (Act 54 of 1972), for public comment for a period of three months in the Government Gazette No. 30075 on 20 July 2007.
Sara Lee Food & Beverage is issuing a voluntarily and precautionary recall of selected whole wheat bread products produced at the company’s Meridian, Miss. bakery and sold at grocery retailers in the following areas of the country: the entire states of Mississippi and Alabama, most of Arkansas, far southeastern Missouri, western Georgia, southwestern Tennessee, southeastern Louisiana and the panhandle of Florida.
Castleberry’s Food Company, a Georgia establishment owned by Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, is voluntarily expanding its July_19 recall of canned meat products that may contain Clostridium botulinum, Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. announced.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume Great Value brand Original Chili with Beans and Hot Chili with Beans due to botulism concern.