JONEL ALECCIA

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Advice to feed babies peanuts early and often helped 60,000 kids avoid allergies, study finds

A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the...

After massive shrimp recalls, the FDA finds radioactive contamination in spices too

Federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product sent to the U.S. from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. The discovery adds to...

Listeria found in Walmart, Trader Joe’s meals may be linked to deadly fettuccine outbreak

Federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain heat-and-eat pasta meals sold at Walmart and Trader Joe’s because they may be contaminated with listeria bacteria previously linked to a deadly...

Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

People taking Eli Lilly’s obesity drug, Zepbound, lost nearly 50% more weight than those using rival Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the blockbuster medications.Clinical trial participants who took...

St. Louis dyemaker is racing to help food companies switch to natural colors

ST. LOUIS (AP) — As pressure grows to get artificial colors out of the U.S. food supply, the shift may well start at Abby Tampow’s laboratory desk.On an April afternoon, the scientist...

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