STORY: In a school cafeteria in Tucson, Arizona, students weigh up their choices for lunch. Mandarin oranges, cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce are on offer. It’s a far cry from what parents remember of “mystery meat” school lunches from over 20 years ago… :: Lindsay Aguilar, Food Services Director, Tucson Unified School District “Whether it’s…
By Renee Hickman TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) -First-graders at John B. Wright elementary school in Tucson bounced into the brightly lit lunchroom, chattering with friends as they grabbed trays featuring juicy mandarin oranges, cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce, all grown at nearby farms that coax fresh produce from the Sonoran Desert. Those fruit and vegetables were…
The head of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a handful of teams at the agency had their layoff notices rescinded Tuesday, multiple officials say, and several worker safety programs that had been eliminated by layoffs last month are being restored. Letters reversing the layoffs arrived in the inboxes of some NIOSH…
“The Food Babe” helps lead the charge against some food dyes – CBS News Watch CBS News This week, the FDA approved three new natural food color additives, a big step in the Trump administration’s push to phase out petroleum-based dyes. Adam Yamaguchi has the story. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for…
The Department of Health and Human Services has decided to effectively block the payout of overdue bonuses to many of its laid-off employees, multiple health officials say. The bonuses were tied to high performance by the workers last year, before they were cut from the department. “If the savings from the layoffs were pennies from…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop new guidance for treating measles with drugs and vitamins, an HHS spokesperson said. The move comes as Kennedy has faced criticism during this year’s record measles outbreaks for remarks misleading people into thinking that measles…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now working with California on a project that is offering gift cards to encourage people to get tested or vaccinated near farms with bird flu, the state says. Some clinics in the state are giving $25 in gift cards to people in the community to get swabbed…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is calling on companies to phase out all petroleum-based dyes by the end of next year, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced Tuesday. The goal is to replace them with natural alternatives in the U.S. food supply. The FDA will be accelerating the review and approval of some…
The Food and Drug Administration is asking the food industry to stop using synthetic food dyes, in a bid to fulfill one of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goals to swap them out with natural alternatives in the U.S. food supply. The FDA’s move stops short of the outright ban that…
One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published Tuesday from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that tracks trends of autism’s prevalence across some communities in the U.S. “They’ve again gone up dramatically, just in two years. We…