Us food and drug administration articles
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What are those weird ingredients in our favorite US packaged foods?
From maltodextrin to guar gum, these additives are found in 73% of the US food supply – and are linked to health impactsThe US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?If you’ve glanced at a nutrition label lately, you may have found yourself stumbling trying to pronounce ingredients like carboxymethyl cellulose or butylated hydroxyltoluene. In the United States, 73% of the food supply is what researchers would today call “ultra-processed” (think...
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More than 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023
Sobering figure obscures the fact that the number of overdose deaths in the US declined for the first time since 2018An estimated 107,543 people died of drug overdoses in the US in 2023, a shocking figure that obscures a glimmer of hope – this is the first annual decline in drug overdose deaths since 2018.The grim toll represents Americans’ struggle with powerful synthetic drugs, in particular the synthetic opioid fentanyl, known to be up to 100 times stronger than morphine. More than 1 million...
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Cedi free-fall is a disaster for us – Food and Beverages Association
Traders across the country are crying foul over the devastating impact of the depreciating cedi on their activities.