Regulator focuses on tackling “food fraud”
Consumer fraud within the meat industry is something that rarely makes the news. The last major scandal was back in 2013, where consumers in Europe […]
Month: March 2019
Could robots benefit consumers and farmers alike?
In Florida, a robot called Harv scuttles frantically around the fruit fields, scooping up strawberries with his 16 camera-guided fingers. He picks five strawberries per […]
San Fransisco proposes ban on the sale of e-cigarettes
As the FDA continues to investigate the safety of e-cigarettes, San Francisco has announced that it plans to ban them until they have been properly […]
Calls for regulators to do more to protect consumers
According to the National Audit Office (NAO), four of the biggest consumer watchdogs in the UK aren’t doing enough to protect consumers from some of […]
EPA bans methylene chloride in household products
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now announced a ban on any future sales of products containing the chemical methylene chloride that are for household […]
Vitamin manufacturers critisised for “misleading” consumers
According to researchers at the universities of Oxford and Southampton, some children’s multivitamins being sold in the UK could contain “misleading” information about amount of […]
FDA approves new drug for severe depression
The FDA has recently announced that it has approved the drug “esketamine”, which can be used in patients with depression that’s resistant to other treatments. […]
FDA issues warning to CanaRX over “unapproved and misbranded drugs”
According to a FDA press release, a warning letter has been issued to Canadian medicine distributor CanaRX over the “introduction of unapproved drugs”, and for […]
Legislation means doctors to prescribe Naloxone to patients at high risk of opioid overdose
According to the FDA, it’s estimated that two million people in the US are addicted to prescription painkillers, causing almost 218,000 overdose deaths between 1999 […]