Police agencies often perform undercover stings at stores that sell alcohol, sending in underage buyers to see if clerks will sell them beer or liquor without asking for identification.
At one such sting in southwest Atlanta last month, police also stumbled across a veritable scavenger hunt of illegal narcotics: bags of crack and powder cocaine and marijuana scattered throughout the store, according to a police report.
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Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., said it hadn’t received any complaints or discovered any problems with the crackers, but took the action as a “precautionary measure” after one of its peanut paste suppliers, Peanut Corp. of America, announced a nationwide recall of peanut butter made in a Georgia plant.
The company is “removing product from retail store shelves and encouraging customers and consumers to hold and not eat these products until regulatory Read the rest of this entry »
Walgreen Co.
spokesman Michael Polzin said his company feared that the tobacco ban would have consequences beyond the sales of cigarettes.
“Many times, a person who smokes will come in and buy a package of cigarettes and some other items,” Polzin said in an interview, “so we lose not only the tobacco sale, but those other items they also pick up on the same shopping trip.”
The most fervent opposition to the regulations emerged from the owners Read the rest of this entry »
by arresting three people yesterday for illegal sales of drugs and firearms.
They are Terrance Williams, Donte Hardin and Christopher Turner.
The police arrested two of them during an undercover purchase of about 3 grams of cocaine and a .25 caliber handgun.
They arrested Turner for possession of about 7 grams of crack cocaine.
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The Hain Celestial Group Announces Record Sales (PR Newswire) and Wright Medical Group, Inc. Reports Results for Third Quarter Ended September 30, 2008 (Business Wire)
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Competitive Technologies Inc. (CTT:
) announced that the US Federal Drug Administration has issued a 501(k) letter of authorization allowing US sales of CTT’s pain therapy medical device.
The device is a non-invasive method for rapid treatment of high-intensity oncologic and neuropathic pain, including pain resistant to morphine and other drugs. CTT has exclusive worldwide rights to this patented device. Read the rest of this entry »
The Food and Drug Administration warned clinical test giant Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings that it was marketing an ovarian cancer test in violation of the law, vindicating skeptics of the assay who worried it wasn’t ready for prime time.
OvaSure, developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, measures six proteins in blood samples and calculates the chances that the woman has ovarian cancer.
LabCorp, as the Burlington N.C., company Read the rest of this entry »
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In April, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), wrote that pharma’s influence on medicine “is so blatant now you’d have to be deaf, blind and dumb not to see it,” adding, “We should all get together and say, ‘Enough!’”
But an article in the September 3 JAMA finds her not taking her own medicine.
Ever since the FDA mandated black boxes on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor Read the rest of this entry »
OAKLEY — There is officially no place in east Contra Costa County for medical marijuana to be sold legally.
Tuesday night, Oakley joined Pittsburg, Antioch and Brentwood in permanently prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries after more than a year long moratorium on the businesses.
The city council voted unanimously without deliberation or opposition from the public.
City attorney Alison Barratt-Green said banning the establishments Read the rest of this entry »
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