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A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FDA recalls antidepressant after finding cancerous chemical

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

McDonald’s links deadly E. coli outbreak to onions from California grower

By Jonel Aleccia and Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2018, file photo, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder, left, and Double Quarter Pound burger is shown in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

McDonald’s tries to reassure customers after deadly E. coli outbreak

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

FILE - Products advertised as containing synthetically derived delta-8 THC are offered for sale at a smoke shop in north Seattle on Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene Johnson, File)

What to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs

By Devi Shastri - Associated Press

Many markets offer from 60, 70 or even 80 percent or higher dark chocolate. The percentage refers to how much pure cocoa bean the chocolate contains. **FILE**

GWU study finds that 43% of cocoa products exceed California legal limits for lead, 35% for cadmium

The Washington Times

A sign at an Abbott Laboratories campus facility is displayed, April 28, 2016, in Lake Forest, Ill. A report released on Thursday, June 13, 2024, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took more than 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint it received about conditions at an Abbott Nutrition factory that was at the center of a nationwide shortage of infant formula. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Audit says FDA took months to react to complaint about Abbott infant formula factory

Associated Press

This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, March 6, 2024 shows cinnamon products sold in U.S. discount stores which contain elevated levels of lead. Top row from left are distributed by La Fiesta Food Products of La Miranda, Calif.; Moran Foods, LLC of Saint Ann, Mo., and MTCI of Santa Fe Springs, Calif. Bottom row from left are from Raja Foods LLC of Skokie, Ill.; Greenbriar International, Inc. of Chesapeake, Va., and El Chilar of Apopka, Fla. (FDA via AP)

Ground cinnamon sold at discount stores is tainted with lead, FDA warns

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

This photo combo provided by the FDA shows an authentic Ozempic needle, left and a counterfeit needle, right. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit Ozempic, the diabetes drug widely used for weight loss, that had been distributed through legitimate drug supply sources. (FDA via AP)

FDA says counterfeit Ozempic shots are being sold through some legitimate sources

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

Tablets of ibuprofen are arranged for a photograph in New York on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. In 2023, more than 40% of American adults are considered obese, but the medications many take are rarely tested in bigger bodies. That’s because they are not required to be included in drug studies. Even a drug as common as ibuprofen, sold as Advil, may not relieve pain in people at higher weights when taken as directed, research shows. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Drugs aren’t required to be tested in people who are obese. Here’s why that’s a problem

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 28, 2023, shows a WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouch. The FDA is warning parents and caregivers not to buy or serve certain pureed fruit pouches marketed to toddlers and young children because the food might contain dangerous levels of lead. Children who have eaten WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches should be tested for possible lead poisoning, the agency said. (FDA via aP)

FDA says WanaBana fruit puree pouches may contain dangerous levels of lead

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

FILE - A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. On Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, the FDA warned health care providers and the public about injuries and at least one death in premature infants who were given probiotic products in the hospital. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FDA warns about giving probiotics to preterm babies after infant death, other injuries

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

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Chinese owner of California biolab that fueled biological weapons rumors is arrested after FDA probe

Associated Press

A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. West Virginia can restrict the sale of the abortion pill, despite federal regulators' approval of it as a safe and effective medication, a federal judge has ruled Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

West Virginia can restrict abortion pill sales, judge rules, despite FDA approval that it’s safe

By Leah Willingham - Associated Press

Debris is scattered around the Pfizer facility on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Rocky Mount, N.C., after damage from severe weather. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

Tornado damage to Pfizer plant unlikely to cause major drug supply shortages, FDA says

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

FDA warns consumers not to use off-brand versions of Ozempic, Wegovy

By Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott delivers his State of the State address remotely from the Pavilion office building, Jan. 5, 2022, in Montpelier, Vt. Scott said Friday, April 28, 2023, that he will veto a bill passed by the legislature that aims to help the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging Vermonters to move away from fossil fuels to heat their homes. (Glenn Russell/VTDigger via AP, Pool, File)

Vermont governor signs shield bills that protect providers who offer medicated abortion

By Lisa Rathke - Associated Press

Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks with reporters after the Florida Senate confirmed his appointment as the state's surgeon general on Feb. 23, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida's surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 risks are harmful to the public. The letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was sent to Ladapo on Friday, March 10, 2023.(AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

U.S. agencies debunk Florida surgeon general’s vaccine claims

Associated Press

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FDA boldly bows to Big Pharma at Americans’ expense

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times