Health Canada is taking the final steps towards a ban on the main source of artificial trans fats in Canada. The department says it is banning partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), which are the main source of industrially produced trans fats in all food sold in the country. The substances have been under fire for years and …Read More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban all trans fats in the United States, citing the fats as being “a public health concern”. While the U.S. is taking steps to formally remove the artificial fats from their market, Canada still stands steps behind their southern counterpart as they have yet to meet …Read More
Health Canada is proposing new initiatives this spring to get the number of Canadians who use tobacco to below the current 5% of the population who admit to using tobacco, including the 3.9 million Canadians who admit to being smokers. They would like to see this number to drop below 5% by the year 2035, …Read More
Across the southern border, millions of Americans are gaining access to legal marijuana for the first time in decades. Though it remains illegal at the federal level, having been classified in 1970 as a “Schedule 1 substance”, most states now have legalized some form of marijuana, and many will vote on additional deregulation this year. Although the US government’s …Read More
Canada’s Public Health Agency is reminding people to be careful when handling food after a recent salmonella outbreak which has sickened 44 people across Canada has been linked to frozen raw breaded chicken products. So far, the Public Health Agency has tracked 44 salmonella related cases around the nation, with 28 cases in Ontario, 12 …Read More
Health Canada has issued a recall involving two lots of Allerject (0.15 mg / 0.15 mL auto-injector) products due to a manufacturing error that could be preventing the product from working properly. The recalled Allerject medication was distributed by Sanofi-aventis Canada Inc. since June 1, 2015 and the lot numbers in question are 2857508, …Read More
Save $2 on your next purchase of Fruiti-ssentials Gummies for grown ups. Coupon expires December 31st 2011. I have never had the gummi adult vitamins. I wonder if they`re as flavourful as the children’s ones. Print your coupon here.
Bayer has a coupon available for $2.00 off any Flinstones vitamins. I remember these from when I was a kid. We buy our girls vitamins but we usually buy the teddy bear store brand. Both our girls have recently started watching teletoon retro ( which makes me feel old that my childhood is now retro) …Read More
Did you know that every week items are recalled and the general public still uses/consumes the item never realizing the potential hazards leading to the recalls? Today Leenea emailed me about the recall on Life Brand Junior Strength Acetaminophen Tablets in the 160 mg bottle and Children’s Strength Acetaminophen Tablets in the 80 mg bottle (the …Read More