If the FDA finds that a dietary supplement is adulterated with a drug or any potentially harmful contaminant it can issue what is known as a class I recall to protect consumers from such products. According to a recent research letter in JAMA, such products don t necessarily disappear immediately.

Dr. Gilbert Ross in The Observer, October 21, 2014
This Thursday, our city s legislators will discuss a proposal banning flavored nicotine liquids and flavorings said

As you well know, at ACSH, our job is to talk about and reveal junk science. This is usually not especially difficult, since the same set of

Sales of cigarettes real cigarettes, the kind that addict and kill over half of users continue to decline by levels not seen in recent years. Meanwhile, sales of e-cigarettes/e-vapor products continue to accelerate. Coincidence? No. Raves from our public health authorities? Also, no.

Dr. Robert Fraley, a top researcher at Monsanto, was recently quoted in a Nebraska Radio Network article, stating that he believed that those opposing GMOs are extreme voices and that most people are in the middle. Dr. Fraley, who is often referred to as the father of agricultural biotechnology, according to

The New York Times editorial board tried no, they really did to adopt a science-based position on sugary beverages. But, alas, their belief in Big Corporate Conspiracy theories held sway at last. Big Soda cannot win with the Times.

Bioengineered crops save lives, so why are so many against it? The CDC has good news on vaccination rates in the U.S., but we're not at 100% yet. More Ebola fears, this time, a community takes it a bit too far.

With the new school year well under way, the CDC has some good news to report . Its annual vaccination coverage report documents the vaccination coverage among our nation s kindergarten children. Although the

Since there is hardly a day that goes by without a good dose of mind-numbing idiocy about Ebola, we figured ACSH ought to weigh in now and then. After all, the worst Ebola science isn t a whole lot different

According to a recent report, since 1996 there have been over 5 billion acres of biotech crops harvested.