After being removed from the market by the FDA in 2002, the makers of "Nicotine Water" are back, claiming the product is a "smoking alternative."

Launched in 1998, "Nicotine Water" maker Global Beverage Innovations says the product now meets the FDA requirement that it be reformulated as a dietary supplement. The company Monday announced two versions of "Nicotine Water" that are equivalent to three cigarettes. One includes tabacco along with nicotine while the other has 84 percent less nicotine

United States Environmental Protection Agency officials told AHN Media Corp. on Friday that the proposed ban on detectable residue of the pesticide carbofuran on food crops it announced Thursday is only the beginning because the agency plans to ban use of carbofuran in the future.

Carbofuran is a broad spectrum insecticide sprayed directly onto soil and plants just after the plant emerges to control beetles, nematodes and rootworm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will ban the pesticide carbofuran on domestic or imported food, in effect prohibiting the chemical in the U.S.

The agency imposed the ban because its chemical residue has unacceptable safety risk to young children. Up to a million pounds of carbofuran are used on U.S. farms annually, but it affects less than 1 percent of the nation's farm lands. However, it is used extensively in developing nations on basic food crops such as rice, bananas, coffee and sugar cane

The types of foods mothers eat an hour before breast-feeding their baby greatly influence children's preferences later on, according to new research.

The researchers, from the University of Copenhagen, found that children often inherit their mothers' food preferences. They said these links might be formed early, even before babies start eating solid foods. Babies who eat a variety of healthy foods are more adventures to try new food when they start eating solids, the scientists say

A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy has been linked to infertility, particularly in obese men, a new British study suggests. Plant oestrogens in foods such as tofu, soy mince or milk may interfere with hormonal signals increasing estrogen activity, lowering the sperm count in men.

The study, carried out by Harvard School of Public Health, looked at the diets of 99 men who had fertility-related problems. When the sperm concentration of men eating the most soy was compared with those eating the least, there was a significant difference