Monthly Archives: November 2008

Chinese farmers have been almost routinely “spiking” their milk supplies to fool inspectors long before this year’s melamine poisoning outbreak which killed and sickened babies there. The melamine outbreak led to worldwide recalls of milk products produced in China, including …

Authorities in a Chinese city have detained the owner of a feed processing factory suspected of selling chicken feed tainted with the industrial chemical melamine that was later found in eggs, state media reported. The Associated Press reports that the …

So-called Mexican “vanilla” is often made with a toxic substance called coumarin and shouldn’t be bought by consumers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week. Coumarin is related to warfarin, which is found in some blood thinners. Eating …

Eight Denver children have contracted E. coli poisoning, but health officials don’t know the source. According to KMGH-TV, the common trait among the children is they all live, or have been in the same Denver neighborhood. The children, ages 4 …