The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is demanding scientific proof from the makers of anti-bacterial soap that their products are any more effective at preventing illness than washing hands with plain soap and water. In ordeer for anti-bacterial soaps and body washes to be considered recognized as effective would require the manufacturers...

Chiquita Banana has sued the Securities and Exchange Commission to block the release of documents related to the payments the company made to a terrorist group in Columbia. The company already paid the Justice Department $25 million in 2007 after admitting it gave Columbian paramilitary groups more than $1.7 million to protect its workers,...

Cornell Law School is now offering a cutting edge seminar on the rapidly expanding citizen initialted whistleblower actions. It is called Whistleblower Law: Involving private citizens in public law enforcement, and it looks at laws encouraging whistleblowers who report wrongdoing. ΠIt also examines whistleblower protections and trends in cases. The course is being...

Here is the site for an essay you must read called "You Owe Me." My daughter read it to me in the car on the way to a holiday event. It is written by Miah Arnold who teaches creative writing to children with cancer at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas and...

The Pentagon has awarded Science Application International Corp a $58 million prime contract to develop an unmanned sea vessels that can spy on enemy submarines while operating with minimal supervision. The autonomous surface vessel will be able to track a diesel electric submarine for months over thousands of miles. The new technologies will allow...

A report issued by the Senate Finance Committee based on thousands of documents subpoenad from Medtronic Inc. says that the company was heavily involved in the drafting, editing and shaping of content of medical journal articles about "Infuse" a bone growth protein used in spine surgery. In addition the report contains information suggesting that...

Michael Woodford was CEO of Olympus Corporation he uncovered one of the biggest financial scandals in Japanese history and turned whistleblower when the company tried to cover it up. For this, Woodford was fired and he has now written a book entitled Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal-How I Went From CEO to Whistleblower. It...

JP Morgan has been sued in a civil action by the New York attorney General for allegedly defrauding investors who lost more than $20 billion on mortgage backed securities sold by Bear Stearns. JP Morgan bought the investment bank Bear Stearns in March 28 at the behest of the US government.  The lawsuit accuses...

In a recent survey almost two thirds of the likely voters polled would consider a candidate's commitment to addressing corporate wrongdoing as part of their decision making process in the upcoming U.S. election. The poll was conducted by the market research firm ORC International which contacted 1,015 people using a computer assisted interviewing system....

As many as 10,000 visitors to Yosemite National Park may have been exposed to a deadly disease called Hanta virus say federal health officials. Letters have been sent to about 3,000 individuals who stayed in the ignature Tent Cabins in the Curry Village section of the park warning them that they may have been...