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Recent Consumer Updates
- FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: August 2009
- Warning on Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances
- Treating Head Lice
- FDA Warns of Health Risks Posed by E-Cigarettes
- Reporting Drug Quality Problems
- Tablet Splitting: A Risky Practice
- Safe Use of Flea and Tick Products in Pets
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Recalls & Alerts
- Luv N’ Care, LTD Issues a Nationwide Recall of all Nuby Gel Filled Teethers and certain UPC Codes of Cottontails and Playschool Teethers
- Update on Recalled Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough
- Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts
- FDA 101: Product Recalls - From First Alert to Effectiveness Checks
- MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
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