WASHINGTON - It's a chemical that's been in U.S. households for more than 40 years, from the body wash in your bathroom shower to the knives on your kitchen counter to the bedding in your baby's basinet.

Genetically-modified salmon is nearing federal approval for human consumption and Alaska's sate and federal lawmakers have taken up torches against what they refer to as "Frankenfish.

...from the NECC that are under investigation.Alaska health officials have received information from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, however, about significant concerns over the sterility of all injectable drugs produced by the Framingham...

...companies will not wean the livestock industry off its addiction to antibiotics.Yet that's what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - which has previously taken tentative steps to curb the agricultural use of antibiotics and is under a...

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:The U.S. Food and Drug Administration once again took timid steps last week to address the danger posed to human health by the use of antibiotic drugs in food-animal...

Ocean conditions that last year triggered algal blooms and outbreaks of Paralytic Shellfish Poison appear to be present again this summer, according to experts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences."Ocean conditions are about the same as last year, so I expect PSP levels could be on the high side again," said Ray RaLonde, the aquaculture specialist at the UAF Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program in Anchorage.

Your doctor gives you an expensive new drug to control your cholesterol, or recommends a certain brand of artificial hip, or says you need a stent to open a clogged artery. He's the expert.

...engineered to grow five times faster than a normal fish, was last heard from a year ago. At that time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was inviting pubic comment on whether to approve it for human consumption. During that comment...

...received research funding and other payments from pharmaceutical companies have sat on advisory boards for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and have recommended drugs made by those companies. A survey published in the Annals of Internal Medicine...

...rising fast. Resistant gonorrhea is 17 times more common than it was just six years ago.In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration restricted the routine use of cephalosporins in livestock to preserve the drugs' usefulness against diseases...