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To Eat or Not to Eat: Decorative Products on Foods Can Be Unsafe

[embedded content] Español Subscribe: FDA Consumer Health Information Your soon-to-be 6-year-old wants you to bake an elaborate birthday cake in the shape of a fairy-tale castle, complete with rainbows, unicorns, and a princess for her party. You’ve found a cake-decoration video online, but it uses ingredients that make you wonder if they are safe to… Read More »

Patients given unsafe medical implants

Medical devices that are unsafe and have not been adequately tested are ending up inside patients’ bodies, an investigation has revealed. The devices include heart pacemakers, rods to correct spines, and artificial knees and hips. The investigation found implants that had failed in baboons, or were tested only on pigs and dead bodies, were coming… Read More »