FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), in conjunction with the Agency’s field staff, is responsible for promoting and protecting the public’s health by ensuring that the nation’s food supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled. The Center’s primary responsibilities include:

Smoking, eating fattening foods and not getting enough exercise are all lifestyle habits that can lead to poor health and cardiovascular disease - more so if you have a family history. But researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that women don`t change these habits as often as men, even when they have relatives with heart disease.

So what is junk food anyway?According to the definition, any food item that has low nutritive value as per the Food Standards Academy and deemed unhealthy by the non-eaters is termed as Junk Food. The term was coined by the Center for Science director, Michael Jacobson, in 1972. Since then, the term has been commonly used......

This fact sheet contains health and safety tips for families preparing for a hurricane from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration.

BEIJING - Firing back over product safety fears, China's Health Ministry accused foreign media Friday of exaggerating the country's food purity problems, while a Chinese tire maker at the center of a huge U.S. recall accused the American importer of distortions.