On Tuesday, the Senate passed a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s food safety system. The legislation would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) and help the government crack down on unsafe foods before they could potentially harm consumers rather than after an outbreak occurs. Despite unusual bipartisan support and a strong push from the [...]
On Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instated new rules to protect drinking water and monitor carbon dioxide emissions in carbon-capture technology. Specifically, the two new rules govern the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies are employed at power facilities and other major emitters to prevent greenhouse gases from reaching [...]
Johnson & Johnson and Millennium Pharmaceuticals are recalling thousands of doses of cancer drug Velcade sold in Europe, the U.S., Japan and Malaysia. The recall was announced after reports of white particles were seen floating in vials of the medication. The particles were discovered in batches of the drug distributed between January and June of [...]
The National Academy of Engineering released its independent report earlier this week about what possibly caused the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and led to the resulting oil spill. Though the report offers little new insight, it repeats key findings presented in previous newspaper reports and other investigations about key human errors that led to the [...]