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Why The FDA Has Never Looked At Some Of The Additives In Our Food

By editor • Apr 14, 2015

This piece comes from the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization.

FDA Tests Turn Up Dairy Farmers Breaking The Law On Antibiotics

By • Mar 8, 2015

When it comes to the current controversy over antibiotic use on farm animals, milk is in a special category.

Lactating cows, unlike hogs, cattle or chickens that are raised for their meat, don't receive antibiotics unless they are actually sick. That's because drug residues immediately appear in the cow's milk — a violation of food safety rules.

Milk shipments are tested for six of the most widely used antibiotics, and any truckload that tests positive is rejected. So when cows are treated, farmers discard their milk for several days until the residues disappear.

New moms turn to placenta pills for postpartum blues

By • Feb 4, 2015
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Megan Oberg had a rough time after her first two deliveries. One moment she'd be happy, in another, not really. And she said that's pretty typical.

 

“Most women who have given birth can tell you some time during the first two weeks you tend to have some ups and downs as far as mood swings, as the hormones leave the system,” Oberg said.

 

For her third pregnancy she decided she wanted to try something new.

 


Business Beat: Nanova Biomaterials producing first product, Missouri gas prices dropping

By • Nov 12, 2014
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Say cheese! That’s what Columbia-based Nanova Biomaterials Incorporated is doing after the Food and Drug Administration approved their first product, a dental varnish, in October. Missouri Business Alert’s Kaitlin Rounds and Yizhu Wang report on the company and its plans for growth.   

Missouri To Receive Close To $700,000 As Part Of Nationwide Kidney Drug Settlement

By • Aug 8, 2014

Missouri will receive $693,000 as part of a nationwide settlement over the kidney transplant drug, Rapamune.

Neighboring Illinois will get more than $1.3 million.

The drug company Pfizer, whose subsidiary Wyeth makes Rapamune, has agreed to pay out a total of $35 million to 41 U.S. states and the District of Columbia as part of the settlement.

Missouri Becomes Third State To Enact 'Right To Try' Drug Law

By editor • Jul 18, 2014

Missouri residents who have exhausted conventional disease cures will have access to experimental drugs under legislation signed on Monday by Gov. Jay Nixon.

The so-called Right to Try legislation gives patients and their doctors the ability to procure drugs that have yet to gain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration if the pharmaceutical manufacturer agrees to provide the product.

Nixon vetoes electronic cigarette measure

By • Jul 14, 2014
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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed legislation barring people younger than 18 from buying electronic cigarettes while also exempting the nicotine products from other tobacco sales restrictions.

Nixon called the Senate bill a "thinly disguised and cynical attempt" to exempt e-cigarettes from the state's 17 cent-per-pack cigarette tax as well as further public health restrictions. His rejection on Monday fell on the deadline for the governor take action on bills passed by state lawmakers earlier this year.

Field Notes: A plan to prevent acts of food terrorism

By • Mar 21, 2014
Milk that Central Dairy delivers is kept behind doors secured with three-inch long padlocks.
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This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which we talk about important issues related to food production. 

Field Notes: Putting a scare into the food system

By • Mar 14, 2014
A bioterror attack that introduced a virus like foot-and-mouth disease could devastate the U.S. livestock industry. Regulators are proposing new rules meant to protect the food system from terror attack.
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This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which we talk about important issues related to food production. 

Field Notes: Antibiotics in meat and why Congress can't pass a farm bill

By • Dec 20, 2013
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This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which we talk about important issues related to food production.

Sen. Blunt seeks more input on food rules

By • Nov 25, 2013
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Seventy-five members of Congress, including Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, are asking the Food and Drug Administration to allow further comment on sweeping food safety rules that farmers say could drive them out of business.

Safety scrutiny turns to grain

By • Dec 27, 2012
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On this week's show we’ll hear about new food safety regulations and how they could impact grain producers, and learn about a study that looked at online avatars and personal health.

New food safety rules apply to bulk grains

By • Dec 27, 2012
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New food safety regulations are about to be announced by the Food and Drug Administration. These regulations—covering everything from sanitation to record-keeping—are part of the Food Safety and Modernization Act, which became law two years ago. While the produce and meat industries get the lion’s share of attention, commodity grains now fall under the FDA’s watch.

Vegetables, vegetables everywhere, but not enough to eat [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Kelsey Kupferer • Oct 9, 2012
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Like the old joke about restaurant complaints (“The food is awful, and the portions are so small!”), kids across the country are complaining their school lunches have too many fruits and vegetables, and they’re leaving lunch hungry.

Missouri hospitals report shortages in pharmaceutical drugs

By Nichole Cartmell • May 4, 2012
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Many Missouri hospitals are reporting shortages of necessary pharmaceutical drugs. The Missouri Hospital Association says such shortages are keeping hospitals from effectively delivering care in a safe and timely way to its patients.

Assessing the additives

By • Feb 16, 2012
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Pick up your favorite packaged food and read the ingredient list.

If you stumbled over any of the words or a color jumped out at you, you might be looking at what’s known as a food additive.  

Newscast for January 19, 2012

By Scott Kanowsky • Jan 19, 2012

Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Missouri gets 'F' for tobacco control policies, in new report from American Lung Association

  • FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

  • MO chief justice wants to shrink prison

 

FDA challenging the use of antibiotics in animals

By • Jan 19, 2012
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The Food and Drug Administration is publishing an order this month that limits the way farmers can use certain antibiotics to treat animals, and eggs.