Health Care

E-cigarette companies like Elf Bar were able to avoid paying US customs and taxes by taking advantage of China’s prohibition on flavored vaping products.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In only two years, a small, colorful vaping device called Elf Bar has become the most popular disposable e-cigarette in the world, generating billions in sales and quickly emerging as the overwhelming favorite of underage U.S. teens who vape. Last week, U.S. authorities publicly announced the first seizure of some of the

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Health Care

The FDA has discovered dangerous levels of lead in cinnamon at a plant in Ecuador that produced contaminated fruit pouches.

The Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday that inspectors in the United States discovered dangerously high amounts of lead in cinnamon at a factory in Ecuador, where applesauce pouches were being produced with the contaminated ingredient. It has been reported that the recalled pouches have caused numerous illnesses in American children. According to officials,

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