CHICAGO - If your New Year’s resolution list looks a bit skimpy, chances are your doctor will help fill in the blanks. For the young, the old and everyone in between, 2007 promises to bring an earful of strong advice from physicians concerned with the state of Americans’ health.

Buried at the back of the paper and within the depths of “alternative health” Web sites is a story that should give everyone pause: “FDA set to approve food from cloned animals.”

Recent outbreaks of food poisoning in other parts of the country illuminate a fact experts have known all along: if food isn’t handled properly, from farmland to the dinner table, foodborne illnesses can take hold and spread like wildfire.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock.

Medical teams — not individuals — are critical to the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections, as well as for the overall health, safety, and welfare of patients, according to an editorial by two Virginia Commonwealth University physicians published in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

NEW YORK — After six years of studying the matter, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that food products from clones of cattle, pigs and goats are as safe to eat as their non-cloned counterparts.

11 News Investigates exposed how the district put tens of thousands of children at risk for food poisoning. Now there’s been a major reshuffling among top food service staff.

DECEMBER 29, 2006 — WASHINGTON — The Scientific Advisory Board for Produce Safety and Security International, Inc. (PSI), a food safety and sanitation technology company, has named Dr. Floyd P. Horn its chairman.

Researchers at Purdue University have used a new technique to rapidly detect and precisely identify bacteria, including dangerous E. coli, without time-consuming treatments usually required.

The sale of milk and meat from cloned animals moved a step closer Thursday after the U.S. government ruled that the products were safe to eat and could be sold in supermarkets without labelling. The landmark draft decision, taken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was condemned by consumer groups and food safety experts, who gave warning of the implications for food consumption throughout …