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Andrew Schneider

Senior Public Health Correspondent

A two-time Pulitzer winner, Andrew is an investigative reporter who uncovered the nation's largest environmental disaster, among dozens of other stories. He writes at Cold Truth.

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FDA Faulted for Giving Additives a Free Pass

posted: 10 days 10 hours ago

(March 8) -- A new report from federal investigators says the Food and Drug Administration has failed to ensure the safety of thousands of additives manufacturers put in what we eat. The Government ...

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Food Safety Questioned After Salmonella Recall

posted: 14 days ago

(March 4) -- Remember last year when the Peanut Corp. of America recalled its salmonella-tainted peanuts? For more than a month, hundreds of food processors throughout North America -- makers of cand ...

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Rush of Medical Aid to Haiti Follows History of Suffering

posted: 62 days 10 hours ago

(Jan. 15) -- Along with all the horrors it wrought, Tuesday's earthquake brought a bitter irony to Haiti: The crumbled, chaotic country will soon have more physicians, medics and operating hospitals ...

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After Scary Year, Will Food in 2010 Be Any Safer?

posted: 77 days 13 hours ago

(Dec. 31) -- Here's a holiday menu that we'd all like to forget: For the appetizer: San Antonio Bay oysters polluted with Noroviruses. For the main course: grilled beef infected with E. coli from con ...

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Make Popcorn

posted: 98 days 10 hours ago

(Dec. 10) -- Two years ago, Orville Redenbacher soared from the graveyard and announced in weeks of TV ads that his popcorn was now free of diacetyl. That's the chemical in artificial butter flavorin ...

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A Creative Plan for Fighting Cancer --ÃÂ And Slashing Medical Costs

posted: 104 days 10 hours ago

About 400 physicians are gathered today in Lansing, Mich., to hear an unlikely message: A major health insurance company wants them to test symptom-free patients to determine whether they have or may ...

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Oink! Scientists Create Lab-Grown Pork

posted: 108 days 8 hours ago

(Nov. 30) -- Scientists in the Netherlands have created pig in a test tube. Debate has already started on whether it will save the world, or just throw vegetarians into a quandary. In the meantime, ...

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Plant With Waffle Shortage Had Listeria Problem

posted: 113 days 9 hours ago

(Nov. 25) -- According to Kellogg, the nationwide shortage of Eggo waffles is due to technical difficulties: equipment problems in one factory, a flood in another. But the deluge at the plant in Atla ...

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Opinion: The FDA's Battle With Bogus Drug Claims

posted: 115 days 9 hours ago

(Nov. 23) - We've all sat in front of the TV listening to an earnest-looking man in a white coat confiding in us that the new drug he holds will save – or at least markedly improve – our ...

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Critics Blast Advice About Mammograms

posted: 120 days 13 hours ago

(Nov. 18) -- Reactions to new government guidelines for breast cancer screenings have been visceral and immediate, and have sparked instant disagreement among doctors. Those objecting to the shift s ...

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