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Food and Drug Administration

  • Dining

    March 1, 2012
  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Texas' Cottage Food Law Passed, But That Won't Stop the State from Changing It

    During the last state legislative session, the Cottage Food Law was passed, clearing the way for home bakers to sell certain goods from their home. Guidelines were established, including limiting annual gross sales to less than $50,000, requiring in-person transactions and limiting sales to non-pote ... More >>

  • Film

    March 17, 2011

    Limitless: One Pill Makes You Smarter in a One-Note Movie.

    During the last state legislative session, the Cottage Food Law was passed, clearing the way for home bakers to sell certain goods from their home. Guidelines were established, including limiting annual gross sales to less than $50,000, requiring in-person transactions and limiting sales to non-pote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Rick Perry Boldly Stands Against Imaginary Threat Toward Salt Shakers

    "They may take our lives, but they'll never take our salt!​It looks like salt may be the next weapon government won't be able to pry out of conservatives' cold, dead hands. Tea was the symbolic foodstuff of the just-finished election cycle, but recent comments from Governor Rick Perry sugg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Mayor Tom, Caraway and DPD Chief Brown Want Dallas to Ban the Sale of Fake Dope

    ​Late this evening I was poking around the City Secretary's site to sneak-peek the council's doings upon its return to work Monday. At which point I noticed that when the Public Safety Committee reconvenes at noon, City Attorney Tom Perkins and Dallas Police Deputy Chief Patricia Paulhill will bri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    To The Full Ex-Stent of the Law

    ​More than two years ago, Kevin Colquitt filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which he alleges "the makers of stents approved to treat digestive tract cancers had illegally marketed them for years to treat blocked blood vessels in other parts of the body," as The New York Times recaps this m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Down On The Grass-Fed Farm: The Beef May Be Better, But It's Still Damn Hard Work

    Jayme RutledgeMarguerite Robbins with her cattle.​ Sweat pours down Marguerite's sun-baked face. She feels briars scratching through her dusty jeans. The buzzing and biting of mosquitoes is maddening. So is the old fence lining one of the back pastures. It's broken again. Marguerite stops wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Eyesight to the Nearly Blind

    Megan FeldmanDr. Jeffrey Whitman performs a rare eye surgery on Adam Williamson, paralyzed in a 2006 dirt-bike accident.Not many people relish having to wear contacts or glasses, but for Adam Williamson, poor eyesight was more than a headache. The 25-year-old from Garland was paralyzed in a dirt bik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    AFI Dallas Announces Its First 15 Films

    Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel in Gigantic, which premiered in Toronto last year and screens this year at AFI DallasThe AFI Dallas International Film Festival just released its first list of films selected for this year's shindig, which runs March 26 through April 2 -- with, as noted last month, most ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Fighting Fire With Fire

    Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    Chantix By Any Other Name ...

    Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    A Month Later, Carter Albrecht's Chantix Use Is Now a National Cautionary Tale

    Does an unproven treatment that combats drug addiction with drugs promise more than it can deliver?

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    BBQ Sauce for the Soul

    When he's not catering for the president, barbecue maven Eddie Deen caters to the spirits of the indigent

  • Film

    August 19, 2004

    I Hate It

    This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Sex Toy Story

    You can't buy a vibrator in Burleson, but there are plenty of dildos

  • News

    March 25, 2004

    R.I.P.ped

    Even former Mr. America Mike Scarcella wasn't strong enough to beat the horrors of GHB addiction

  • News

    November 13, 2003

    Cocktail Hours

    The latest AIDS medications give life to the dying--but what kind of life?

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Dino-myte

    Plus: Soy-lent Green; Player’s Ball

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Green Giant

    Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Buzz

    Java jive

  • News

    November 23, 2000

    High Spoons

    Bare breasts, a bowl of red, and bad blood among the chili brethren in the Big Bend. Texas doesn't get any better.

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    Courthouse bully

    Legal assistant Jim Carrao works the dark corners of the justice system. He serves papers, does background checks, files annoying cases--and knows just enough law to be dangerous.

  • Film

    August 20, 1998

    Blood sucker

    This vampire killer, despite its pedigree, never comes to life

  • News

    January 1, 1998

    Paper chase

    William Morgan says he's just an innocent document dealer snared in a campaign finance scandal. And if you believe that, he has some old railroad bonds he wants to sell you.

  • News

    June 27, 1996

    Hot Product

    World-class embezzler Gary Lewellyn rebounds with a fast-selling treatment for A.D.D.

  • News

    April 18, 1996

    Epidemic of hope

    A new family of drugs may offer AIDS patients a new lease on life

  • Calendar

    February 22, 1996

    Events for the week

    A new family of drugs may offer AIDS patients a new lease on life

  • News

    July 6, 1995

    Neander-Guy

    Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too

  • Film

    December 8, 1994

    Aborted cause

    Ivan Reitman's Junior ruins many stellar comic opportunities

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