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Articles in Sept-Oct, 1997 issue of FDA Consumer

• States join FDA in enforcing tobacco rule
• Why should FDA regulate drugs?
  by Tamar Nordenberg
• Risk of tick-borne illness prompts blood recall
• Bone builders: support your bones with healthy habits
  by Dixie Farley
• Don't buy abortion kits over the Net, FDA warns
• Giving thalidomide a second chance
  by Herbert Burkholz
• Unapproved lasers seized from Florida manufacturer
• Schizophrenia: drugs, therapy can turn life around for some
  by Margie Patlak
• Health advisory on newest AIDS drugs
• Focus on food safety: initiative calls on government, industry, consumers to stop food-related illness
  by Audrey Hingley
• New safety standard for device electric wires
• Supplements with plantain may pose danger, FDA warns
• Seizers keepers, criminals weepers
  by Tamar Nordenberg
• Mixing diet drugs calls for caution
• Final feed rule reduces risk of BSE
• Unapproved drugs end up at hazardous waste site
  by Dixie Farley
• Catfish cleared of dioxin; eggs still being sampled
• Medications and older adults
  by Rebecca D. Williams
• Prison, fines for perpetrators of food and drug fraud
• Less foreign inspection likely
• Get rid of worm ridder, district judge rules
  by Isadora Stehlin
• Urgent Factor VIII recall
• 1997 Food Code available
• Sixth-grader opens lid for FDA investigation
  by Paula Kurtzweil