Washington DC - March 11 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture joined First Lady Michelle Obama in announcing the innovative Apps for Healthy Kids competition to Americans as part of the Let’s Move! initiative.

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Washington DC - March 11 - Nationwide air quality has improved significantly for six common air pollutants and emissions of toxic air pollutants, such as benzene, have declined about 40 percent nationwide between 1990 and 2005.

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Washington DC - March 11 - The Procter & Gamble Company announced that it is voluntarily recalling Pringles Restaurant Cravers Cheeseburger potato crisps and Pringles Family Faves Taco Night potato crisps as part of an industry ingredient recall to protect consumers from potential Salmonella exposure.

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Washington DC - March 9 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack marked National School Breakfast Week (March 8-12) by calling for national support for increased participation in the School Breakfast Program and advancing the health and nutrition of our Nation’s children.

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Washington DC - March 9 - McCormick & Company, Incorporated is initiating a recall of products manufactured with HVP (hydrolyzed vegetable protein) supplied by Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas, Nevada, because the ingredient has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Washington DC - March 8 - The Occupational Safety & Health Administration is proposing to slash the hazard warning information that chemical manufacturers must provide to workers, customers and other users, a reversal in the right-to-know approach to chemical handling.

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Washington DC - March 5 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to protect the public following the early identification of Salmonella Tennessee in one company’s supply of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP). This is a common ingredient used most frequently as a flavor enhancer in many processed foods.

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Washington DC - March 2 - Darkness can conceal identity and encourage moral transgressions. New research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that darkness may also induce a psychological feeling of illusory anonymity.

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Washington DC - February 26 - Democrats and Republicans met with the president at Blair House Feb. 25 for several hours of televised discussion about health care overhaul. The summit was ripe with errors and misleading remarks, according to analysis by factcheck.org.

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Washington DC - February 23 - The American Meat Institute (AMI), the nation’s oldest and largest meat and poultry trade association, came to the defense of the beloved hot dog, citing education in food preparation as the best tool in efforts to prevent young children from choking.

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Washington DC - February 23 - Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $100 million in federal grant funds to 10 states to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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Washington DC - February 23 - Public health officials and health care providers need to step up their efforts to reduce Americans’ increasing rates of high blood pressure, which triggers more than one-third of heart attacks and almost half of heart failures in the United States each year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

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Washington DC - February 22 - Marking one year of the Recovery Act, USDA received funding to provide food to local food banks, food pantries and soup kitchens through the Emergency Food Assistance Program. Local school systems were also beneficiaries of funding in an effort to enhance the nutritional quality of school meals.

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Washington DC - February 22 - The Obama Administration released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring grocery stores and other healthy food retailers to underserved urban and rural communities across America.

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Washington DC - February 19 - The labor-force participation rate is increasing for older Americans (those age 55 and older) as older workers are faced with higher health costs and economic losses, according to a study published by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.

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