American Airlines Barred From Safety Board Inquiry

The National Transportation Safety Board acted after the airline copied data from a black box in a plane that skidded off a runway.

American Airlines Barred From Safety Board Inquiry

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Japan’s Robot Safety Center Thinks It Can Protect You

Robots are potentially dangerous, but it’s usually hard to tell just how dangerous they are. You can make up as many ludicrous warnings as you want, but the only way to tell for sure is to let the robots just beat on people a whole bunch and see how bad it gets. At least that way, you get a worst-case scenario.

Japan’s Robot Safety Center Thinks It Can Protect You

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The safety of saccharine

In the LA Times, Elena Conis has a really interesting story about food safety and saccharine—the artificial sweetener that's long been suspected of toxicity, despite multiple studies suggesting that it's safe in the low doses humans actually consume. The piece does a really good job of explaining why it's so hard to gauge the long-term health impacts of something like saccharine. If you've ever wondered how people can have wildly different positions on the safety of a given chemical, this will help make sense of the confusion.

The safety of saccharine

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NPRb8M6b8nc/the-safety-of-saccha.html

House Passes Food Safety Bill, Raising Powers of F.D.A.

The Food and Drug Administration will be able to order a recall rather than relying on the cooperation of the company.

House Passes Food Safety Bill, Raising Powers of F.D.A.

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=d6c24db27e821793f1b79d05b2a24882

Senate Passes Historic Food Safety Reform

The United States Senate has approved the first major food safety legislation in more than 70 years, by a 73-to-25 vote.

Senate Passes Historic Food Safety Reform

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/food-safety-reform/