Topic: The Associated Press

General Mills to Cut Sugar in Kids' Cereals

General Mills plans to further cut the amount of sugar in the cereals it markets to children under 12.. "As a result, we have already reduced sugar in many cereals, some by as much as 20 percent, and by spring General Mills ...

Health Highlights: July 15, 2007

Baby food maker Gerber has issued a national recall for two of its popular 8 ounce cereals, ORGANIC Rice and Gerber ORGANIC Oatmeal because of a possible chocking hazard.. The lawsuit against the maker of the Guidant defibrillator has been settled, the ...

Health Highlights: July 14, 2007

In an act of apparent retaliation to the United States' cracking down on imports of many of its food products, China has suspended importing a number of U.S. meat products, including poultry from the world's largest producer, Tyson Foods of Arkansas.. In ...

Health Highlights: July 13, 2007

In the month after the New England Journal of Medicine published an analysis that showed a possible connection between the popular diabetes drug Avandia and heart problems, there was a large increase in the number of suspected Avandia-related side effects reported to ...