Study Looks at Connections Between Poverty and Foodborne Illness
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Lydia Zuraw
A study from the Emerging Infections Program at Yale School of Public Health found that, in adults,
campylobacteriosis is more common among those of higher socioeconomic status, but, for children younger than 10, more cases occurred among those of lower socioeconomic status. Researchers Kelley Bemis, Ruthanne Marcus and James Hadler grouped cases of campylobacteriosis
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FDA Commissioner Promises Guidance to Help Reduce Salt in the American Diet
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News Desk
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is promising in media interviews that new sodium
guidance, probably dependent on voluntary compliance by the food industry, is coming soon. The American diet of processed and restaurant foods — not so much the salt shaker on the table — is responsible for our average per-person consumption...
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Soda Warning Label Rejected by California Assembly Health Committee
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Lydia Zuraw
California’s bill to add warning labels to sugar-sweetened beverages has stalled in the state’s
Assembly Health Committee. The state Senate passed the bill last month but fell three votes short of the 10 needed to pass the committee on Tuesday. After hearing from the bill’s author, Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), co-sponsors and beverage industry opponents,...
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