Some major retailers – Walmart, Target, Walgreens and GNC – are in pretty hot water for selling mislabeled herbal supplements. Since the New York State Attorney General’s announcement on Monday, February 2, that all four retailers were selling fraudulent products, other states have started to look more deeply into claims that the herbal supplements carried by these stores were no more than powdered rice and houseplants. How did it happen? The Food and Drug Administration labels [...]

A lot of people – especially people with small children or pets in the home – turn to “green” cleaners. Not only are they supposedly better for the environment, but many of them claim to be safe for household use because they don’t use poisonous chemicals. But the truth is that some of those cleaners are just as dangerous as their non-green alternatives, and using them could be bad for your health. The Consumer Product Safety [...]