The Department of Health (HEALTH) and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) advises residents of Cherry Road in Cranston and the surrounding neighborhoods that a stray kitten has tested positive for rabies. HEALTH has received reports that this kitten was one of three kittens born to a...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises consumers of a recall of all prepared food sold at Greenwich Bay Gourmet, in East Greenwich, from Friday, August 1, 2008 through Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Food sold from this establishment may be contaminated with norovirus. Any food that was...
Rhode Island has passed a new law that allows a woman to breast or bottle-feed her child in any place that is open to the public. A pre-existing Rhode Island law exempted breastfeeding mothers from disorderly conduct laws but did not provide them with the explicit right to breastfeed a child in...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that one jalapeno pepper sample is a positive genetic match with the Salmonella Saintpaul strain causing the current Salmonella outbreak. The positive sample was obtained during an FDA inspection at a produce distribution center in Texas.
