Li Changjiang, head of China's food safety watchdog, resigned Monday over the poisoned milk scandal which has so far left 54,000 Chinese children ill.

The chemical melamine was found in the tainted milk and dairy products made by China's three largest dairy firms. Four children have died from the poisoned milk, more than 100 are gravely sick and almost 13,000 are still confined in hospitals

The Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to set higher drinking water safety benchmark for perchlorate due to pressures from the White House and Pentagon. Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel found in tap water in at least 25 states and linked to thyroid problems in infants, young children and pregnant women.

The Washington Post cited documents from EPA's preliminary investigation, expected to end the six-year long battle between EPA scientists who are for regulation of the chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who are against regulation

The Environmental Protection Agency is unlikely to set higher drinking water safety benchmark for perchlorate due to pressures from the White House and Pentagon. Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel found in tap water in at least 25 states and linked to thyroid problems in infants, young children and pregnant women.

The Washington Post cited documents from EPA's preliminary investigation, expected to end the six-year long battle between EPA scientists who are for regulation of the chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who are against regulation

People who regularly use paracetamol are at three fold risk of having asthma, a new research has found.

Study author Dr. Seif Shaheen from Imperial College London and team questioned over 500 adults with asthma and over 500 people without asthma about the use of painkillers. Taking paracetamol weekly increases the risk of asthma three-fold, research has found

Regent Sports is recalling about 190,000 MacGregor and Mitre folding soccer goal nets after a 20-month-old child from Texas was found dead tangled in a net.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission officials say the fixed knot flexible openings in the net can cause head and neck entrapment or strangulation to young children. The agency has received two reports of children's heads getting entangled in the nets