Families victimized by tainted spinach and peanut butter put a human face on a recent string of high-profile outbreaks of foodborne illness, urging lawmakers to strengthen federal oversight of the nation’s food supply.

Wheel your way to savings when planning a car rental
Renting a car for summer holidays can be an expensive proposition, but there are strategies consumers can adopt to hold down the price of the vehicle as well as the costs for fuel and insurance.

Tainted pet food entered human food chain, officials say
The tainted pet food scare now has spread to humans. California officials say about 45 state residents ate pork from hogs that consumed animal feed laced with melamine from China.

Tooling Around: Seeing The Forest Because Of SpeedTree?
Gamasutra - For the first part in Gamasutra s tooling Around feature, which profiles and interviews middleware and tools developers about their products, today s interview is with Kevin Meredith, Director of business Development at IDV Inc., developers Online Press Release PRWeb - […]

Data affirm cancer rate drop tied to hormone
New federal statistics reinforce last year’s report that attributed the most significant drop in U.S. breast cancer rates to millions of older women stopping menopause hormones, according to a new analysis.

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