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About 80,000 chickens that were fed contaminated pet food scraps can be released for processing because testing showed meat from the birds is safe to eat, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
Farmed fish have been fed meal spiked with the same chemical that has been linked to the pet food recall, but the contamination was probably too low to harm anyone who ate the fish, federal officials said Tuesday.
It's safe to eat pork and chicken from animals whose feed was mixed with contaminated pet food that sickened or killed cats and dogs, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Monday.
Several hundred of the 6,000 hogs that may have eaten contaminated pet food are believed to have entered the food supply for humans, the government said Thursday. The potential risk to human health was said to be very low.
September's national spinach recall has shaken consumer confidence in the safety of leafy green vegetables, according to a new national survey.
A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs …
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Government has adopted a new policy since 2007 to pay subsidies to participants of nuclear tests, said Li Xueju, minister of civil affairs, during a visit to a unit of the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) on Friday.
A long-awaited federal study looking at how widespread perchlorate pollution is nationwide and what foods may contain it was released Tuesday, officials said.
The US Environmental Protection Agency again will lead an effort to remove hazardous materials from a Concord manufacturing facility that has a long history of contamination. more stories like this
Families of British veterans used as human guinea pigs in 1950s nuclear experiments in the Pacific are likely to suffer genetic defects for generations to come.
At the height of the Cold War in 1956, Plymouth sailor Doug Atkinson was one of hundreds of servicemen callously exposed to fallout from atomic weapons in Britain's battle to stay ahead in the arms race.
There are few subjects involving greater sensitivity — and for that matter, time, money and effort — for the Army in Hawai'i than Makua Military Reservation, Stryker vehicles and depleted uranium.
IT WAS the morning of June 19, 1956. Fresh-faced 19-year-old sailor Stan Jenkinson had breakfast, washed and shaved before changing into blue shorts, flip-flops and sunglasses. He then stepped on deck into a beautifully sunny day in the Pacific.
Anyone caught up in the excitement of the Government's decision to back a new generation of nuclear power plants last week might benefit from a trip to Sellafield, where the grisly realities of Britain's past nuclear mistakes are plain to see.
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A man in Germany is enjoying his chocolate bar when he notices a strange bump. No it wasn't a nut but part of a human finger!
Children living within three miles of nuclear power stations are more than twice as likely to get leukaemia as those who live further away, scientists say.
A new government in the Marshall Islands may spell trouble for America
SANTA FE — The state Attorney General's Office wants to jump into a court battle over whether a report on possible leaks at a Sandia National Laboratories mixed waste dump is public record. The attorney general contends the report should be made public.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid levied his harshest criticism yet of a government program to compensate former Nevada Test Site workers who suffer from cancer, telling a presidential advisory board Wednesday that the process is "short-sighted and unfair" and isn't working as Co …
APOLLO, Pa. - Alarms warning of possible radiation contamination sometimes sounded as often as two to three times a month at the Pennsylvania nuclear fuel processing plant where Gloria DeBiasio worked for two decades starting in 1963.
Former Alle-Kiski area nuclear workers have received final approval as a special class nearly guaranteeing many of them payment from the federal government for covered illnesses.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Traveling Resource Center will visit Shiprock, N.M., and Kayenta, Ariz., this month to help individuals interested in filing claims under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).
Following a radioactive leak at an oilrig off southern Viet Nam's Vung Tau City on December 28, 173 workers were yesterday found to manifest signs of contamination including 28 who vomited, suffered from headaches and difficult breathing.
WATERFORD, Conn. (AP) — Millstone Power Station is trying to find the source of a leak of tritium, a radioactive element that was first discovered leaking a month ago at the nuclear power complex.
The Ministry of Environment has found elevated levels of radioactive tritium in ground water at the municipal dump serving Pembroke, Ont., and several other nearby Ottawa River valley communities.
MONROEVILLE, Pa. (AP) Sixty years after he helped build the atomic bomb dropped on Japan in World War II, and long after he beat two bouts of cancer, Ed Halluska is celebrating a special Christmas this year.
They were some of the Cold War's first warriors.
SEATTLE -- The company that operates the Idaho National Laboratory has agreed to pay $61,000 in fines for mishandling chemical waste at the eastern Idaho facility. The agreement to pay the fine was announced Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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