The number of Austrian wines containing antifreeze has risen to 362 after an intensive nationwide hunt, an Austrian Health Ministry spokesman said.
Low levels of three contaminants were found in ground water at the Casmalia Resources hazardous waste disposal site near Santa Maria, a U.S.
Attorneys representing some of the 3,000 investors of fraud-ridden American Principals Holdings on Friday amended their class-action lawsuit so as to detail alleged improprieties in dozens of limited partnerships that raised about $90 million.
Recall of about 100,000 pounds of roast beef produced by a Los Angeles firm and sold to restaurants and delicatessens in California, Nevada and Hawaii was announced Friday by the federal Food Service and Inspection Service in Washington.
drops from their shelves after an eye injury to a man who used the tainted product, police said.
A 70-year-old man died Friday after drinking tainted wine, bringing to 24 the number of people
A prosecutor investigating the tainted wine that has killed 22 people filed murder charges Wednesday against seven defendants in the case.
The toxic anti-freeze at the center of Austria's wine scandal has been found in French champagne sold in Austria, the country's Consumers Assn. said.
A bank officer in the Seattle suburbs has died from cyanide contained in an Extra-Strength Excedrin capsule she swallowed last week, authorities disclosed Monday night.
The Los Angeles Department and Water and Power has begun notifying residents of a North Hollywood neighborhood of its plans to build a 48-foot aeration tower nearby to help evaporate contaminants from ground water.
Three months ago, when the misuse of a powerful pesticide temporarily shut down California's watermelon industry and cost its growers $1.5 million in lost sales and ruined crops, an angry state food and agriculture Director Clare Berryhill vowed that the state would "nail to a cross" any growers who were...
UCLA to investigate alternative methods for cleaning up chemically tainted city water wells in the San Fernando Valley.
In the last 13 months, chemical contamination has forced the city to close 5 of 11 wells that supplied half its water.
A long-planned cleanup of polluted soil and water beneath a Placerita Canyon explosives plant moved closer to implementation Thursday night when state health officials heard final public comments on the $1.7-million project.
evaporation ponds designed to contain tainted farm drainage water now flowing to Kesterson Reservoir.
More states banned sales of Tylenol capsules today after a second tainted bottle was confirmed, and
Pizza, chicken and other substitutes will be replacing hamburgers on some school lunch menus in California and other states because of fears that ground beef supplied under the U.S.
Inflatable "packers," recently installed deep in several contaminated wells in North Hollywood, have in some cases cut levels of pollutants in pumped water tenfold, allowing previously unusable wells to produce drinkable water again, according to city engineers.
Over the last 10 years, there have only been a handful of incidents involving contaminated dairy products, state officials say.
The salesman drew water from the kitchen faucet into a test tube, added a few drops of a solution and watched as a sediment separated and fell to the bottom.