H-E-B has initiated a recall for two brownie products because of the potential for metal fragments in the products, following consumer complaints.
The company recall, posted by the Food and Drug Administration, involves H-E-B Bakery brand “Two Bite Brownies” and H-E-B brand “Simply Delicious Cookies with Brownie Bites Party Trays.”
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Salvador Palacios, 18, is being held in lieu of a $75,000 bond at California’s Glenn County Jail after being charged with food poisoning and child endangerment.
Palacios is accused of putting hash oil in another student’s brownie. The 15-year-old female victim became dizzy and was taken to a hospital where
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Months after a controversy erupted over melatonin-laced brownies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned one company that its product is “adulterated” because melatonin is an unapproved dietary supplement.
In a July 28 warning letter to HBB LLC, doing business as Baked World, the FDA told the Memphis, TN-based
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The marketing of melatonin-laced brownies to children was a just a local issue last week, but not anymore.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Wednesday asked U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to see if she has the authority “to oversee the safety of foods containing dietary supplement additives.”
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Lest you think that fruit-flavored concoctions mixing caffeine with alcohol were the extreme edge of the supplement industry, please meet Lazy Cakes.
After the Red Bull era, in which dozens of foods and drinks were laced with supplements to “pump you up,” come new offerings designed to calm you down
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