Food
-
?
-
Safety Alerts & Advisories
This page provides links to safety alerts, consumer advisories, and other safety information about the following FDA-regulated products:
Food and beverages
Dietary supplements
- Infant formula
View all recent Recalls, Market Withdrawals & Safety Alerts.
-
Food and Beverage Alerts, Advisories, and Safety Information
Questions & Answers: Apple Juice and Arsenic FDA is Monitoring Certain Foods and Beverages Imported from Taiwan that May Contain Plasticizers
June 22, 2011"Pine Mouth" and Consumption of Pine Nuts
March 14, 2011Consumer Advisory: Black Licorice Can Be A Dangerous Treat For Some
October 26, 2010For Consumers: The HVP Recall (Updated)
March 24, 2010Consumer Advisory: FDA Continues to Warn Against Eating Raw Dough for Cookies or Other Raw Dough Products before Cooking
January 19, 2010Consumer Advisory: Dietary Supplements Containing Silver May Cause Permanent Discoloration of Skin and Mucous Membranes (Argyria) [ARCHIVED]
October 6, 2009Update on Recalled Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough
June 19, 2009Questions and Answers About the Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough Recall
June 22, 2009Consumer Advisory: Only Eat Puffer Fish from Known Safe Sources
October 17, 2007Questions and Answers: Polonium [ARCHIVED]
August 2007Questions and Answers: Peter Pan & Great Value Peanut Butter Salmonella Outbreak and Product Recall [ARCHIVED]
February 2007What Consumers Need to Know About Avian Influenza [ARCHIVED]
October 2006
-
-
Dietary Supplement Alerts and Safety Information
Energy "Drinks" and Supplements: Investigations of Adverse Event Reports How FDA investigates adverse event reports allegedly related to energy drinks and supplements. FDA Warns Consumers to Avoid Red Yeast Rice Products Promoted on Internet as Treatments for High Cholesterol [ARCHIVED]
August 9, 2007Concerns About Botanicals and Other Novel Ingredients in Conventional Foods [ARCHIVED]FDA Advises Dietary Supplement Manufacturers to Remove Comfrey Products From the Market [ARCHIVED]
July 6, 2001- FDA Concerned About Botanical Products, Including Dietary Supplements, Containing Aristolochic Acid [ARCHIVED]
April 11, 2001 Consumer Advisory: Dietary Supplements Containing Silver May Cause Permanent Discoloration of Skin and Mucous Membranes (Argyria) [ARCHIVED]
September 1994Letter to Health Professionals regarding safety concerns related to the use of botanical products containing aristolochic acid [ARCHIVED]
April 4, 2001FDA Advises Dietary Supplement Manufacturers to Remove Comfrey Products From the Market [ARCHIVED]
July 6, 2001Letter to Health Care Professionals: FDA Consumer Advisory Regarding Dietary Supplements that Contain Silver [ARCHIVED]
October 6, 2009FDA Warns Consumers Not to Feed Infants "Better than Formula Ultra Infant Immune Booster 117" [ARCHIVED]
January 23, 2004- Hepatic Toxicity Possibly Associated with Kava-Containing Products9 (CDC MMWR Report)
November 29, 2002 Consumer Advisory: Kava-Containing Dietary Supplements May be Associated With Severe Liver Injury [ARCHIVED]
March 25, 2002Risk of Drug Interactions with St. John's Wort and Indinavir and other Drugs
February 10, 2000Adverse Events with Ephedra and Other Botanical Dietary Supplements [ARCHIVED]
September 1994
-
-
Infant Formula Alerts and Safety Information
Abbott Infant Formula Recall Update [ARCHIVED]
October 26, 2010Abbott Recalls Certain Similac® Brand Powder Infant Formulas [ARCHIVED]
September 27, 2010Melamine Contamination In China
January 5, 2009FDA Issues Health Information Advisory on Infant Formula [ARCHIVED]
September 12, 2008Health Professionals Letter on Enterobacter sakazakii Infections Associated With Use of Powdered (Dry) Infant Formulas in Neonatal Intensive Care Units [ARCHIVED]
October 10, 2002• CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report - "E. sakazakii" Infections Associated With Use of Powdered Infant Formulas" April 12, 2002 (available in PDF )
April 12, 2002
-
-
-
