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• Diamond Pet Foods Settles $3.1 million Lawsuit

  Staff Writer | January 04, 2008 11:46 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  Diamond Pet Foods, a company that contaminated dog food that resulted in killing numerous dogs nationwide, agreed to pay a $3.1 million settlement with pet owners.The company stated their workers failed to properly test and make sure their products were safe to sell. This statement came after the Food and Drug Administration released a report showing the company has no record of test results for...

• Medical Identity Theft On the Rise

  Staff Writer | January 02, 2008 9:37 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  Almost two months ago Marcella Young picked up her prescription drugs from a Walgreens in Fort Collins, Colorado. Young looked in her bag and noticed her painkillers were missing.A stranger was able to get her information, most likely after she threw a past prescription bag in the trash, and was able to walk into Walgreens and out with her pills.Pam Dixon, the executive director of the World...

• Law Enforcement Officers' Deathes Increase

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  A report recently released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors stated that there has been 186 officer deaths since December 26th. This has increased from 145 in 2006.Eighty-one officers died in traffic-related accidents and there have been 69 shooting deaths.Craig Floyd, chairman of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, stated...

• 4 Killed in Chemical Plant Explosion

  Staff Writer | December 20, 2007 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  On Wednesday, December 19th, four workers were killed during a massive explosion at a chemical plant in Jacksonville, Florida. 14 others were injured as well.T2 Laboratories Inc. Plant makes chemical solvents and fuel additives. It is still unclear on what actually caused the explosion.The chemicals at the plant made the environment "incredibly dangerous for the first responders," stated Tom...

• Diactyl linked to lung ailment removed from microwave popcorn

  Staff Writer | December 19, 2007 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  On Monday, December 17th, the nation's four largest makers of microwave popcorn stated that they have removed a flavoring chemical that has been linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers from their products.The Weaver Popcorn Company, ConAgra Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., and the American Pop Corn Co. have all promised to change their microwave popocorn recipes by January 2008. These...

• Trade Group Seeks Guidelines for Food Imports

  Courtney Mills | September 18, 2007 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  Seeking to allay current anxiety about the quality of food imports in the country, the Grocery Manufacturers Association introduced a series of steps Tuesday to strengthen present regulatory guidelines for imports. The country's largest industry trade group undertook these steps principally out of public concern about the recent trade calamity with China, including DEG-laced toothpaste,...

• California Growers Recall Salmonella-Tainted Spinach

  Courtney Mills | August 30, 2007 1:34 PM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  Metz Fresh LLC announced on Wednesday that it was voluntarily recalling fresh spinach from grocery stores after a sample tested positive for salmonella.The first "presumptive" positive test for salmonella came back to Metz on Friday last week, which is when the company was able to disengage over 90% of the 8,000 cases of spinach in transit by placing "holds" on the company's product. The...

• The FDA has Proposed New Rules for Sunscreen

  Jenny Albano | August 23, 2007 8:53 PM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  The FDA has announced that they have proposed new rules for sunscreen. The agency now wants sunscreens to have a label that says if the product has UVA protection as well as UVB protection. For the past 30 years sunscreen manufacturers have only been required to list the UVB protection on the bottles, but UVA rays can also damage skin and increase the risk of skin cancer.The agency has...

• Government Warns About Kids' Cough and Cold Meds

  Courtney Mills | August 16, 2007 12:17 PM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  The FDA announced on Wednesday that it would examine the efficacy of over the counter cough and cold medicines in children by calling together experts in the field this fall to discuss the growing discord over their use. In the meantime, the FDA has advised parents not to administer cough medicines to children under two years of age without a doctor's order.Several doctors have raised questions...

• Teen With Meningitis Could Have Infected Fellow Plane Passengers

  Jenny Albano | July 24, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  A teenager, who was traveling on an AirTran Airways flight was found to have bacterial meningitis. The girl traveled from Orlando, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia and then to Wichita, Kansas and became very ill and unresponsive on the second flight. Crew members called for an ambulance to meet her upon arrival and the airline notified the CDC on Sunday.Now AirTran is trying to contact passengers...