On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 4, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. FDA Says Some Food Labels are Misleading
The Food and Drug Administration calls out 17 food manufacturers for misleading nutritional labels.
2. Tofu, Fake Meats Recalled
Earth Island is conducting a precautionary recall of a bunch of Follow Your Heart brand deli, tofu and salad dressing products because they might be contaminated with salmonella.
3. Storefront Surgical Facilities Poorly Regulated
The increasingly popular medical business model of the free-standing storefront specialist ambulatory surgical clinic is largely unregulated, falling through the gaps of the current medical regulatory system.
(By CalorieLab editors)
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Lab Notes: FDA Says Some Food Labels are Misleading; Tofu, Fake Meats Recalled