FDA NEWS

FDA: All Tomatoes Cleared of Salmonella Risk - Washington Post
All types of fresh tomatoes are safe to eat, federal health officials said yesterday, lifting a six-week-old warning that led restaurants to pull them and triggered tens of millions of dollars in losses for the tomato industry. Officials with the
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Bush offers to talk on Iraq timetable - Detroit News
WASHINGTON -- President Bush has agreed to set a "general time horizon" for deeper U.S. troop cuts in Iraq, the White House said Friday, a dramatic shift from his once-ironclad unwillingness to talk about any kind of deadlines or timetables. The
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FDA comes under Congress scanner over Ranbaxy issue - Times of India
NEW YORK: The US drug regulator FDA, which has charged Ranbaxy of selling unsafe medicines in the country, has come under the parliamentary scanner and will be probed for its conduct in approving the Indian pharma major's products and other potential
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FDA gives all-clear on tomatoes, not peppers - Chicago Tribune
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration declared on Thursday that it is again safe to eat all tomatoes now on sale in the U.S., canceling its warning in June that some tomatoes were the cause of a still-unsolved outbreak of salmonella
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FDA decides it's safe to eat tomatoes - Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - It's OK to eat all kinds of tomatoes again, the US government declared yesterday - lifting its salmonella warning on the summer favorites amid signs the record outbreak, while not over, may finally be slowing. Hot peppers still get a
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