The Examination

1 week ago | theexamination.org | Will Evans |Anjali Tsui |Ellen Gabler

This article was reported in collaboration with The New York Times. For more than a decade, Navindra Seeram, a biomedical researcher, has praised maple syrup, calling it a “hero ingredient” and “champion food” that could have wide-ranging health benefits. Seeram, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of New England, has published more than three dozen studies extolling the power of maple.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Hristio Boytchev |Madlen Davies |Rafael Cabrera

World of Pain is a reporting collaboration among journalists in more than 10 countries on how opioid companies worldwide are profiting as addiction and overdoses rise. This story is co-published in partnership with The Lancet and The Telegraph. Linda Matthews fell in love with a man who was charming and funny and, like her, loved rugby and true crime. Brad Liefvoort was her soulmate. She could see herself raising a family with him. Then came the drugs.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Ashley Okwuosa |Sasha Chavkin

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned imports from eight companies that had shipped clams from China contaminated with PFAS – a class of toxins known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down in the body. But when the alert went out, several of the food safety scientists who had kept the tainted shellfish from reaching American consumers were no longer at the agency.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Matthew Chapman

The Kenyan government has mandated graphic new health warnings on all new nicotine products in a precedent-setting move for public health in Africa. The new warnings were signed into law one year after an investigation by The Examination found the government had previously weakened health warnings on nicotine pouches after British American Tobacco threatened to pull investment from a new factory in the country’s capital.

Oct 21, 2024 | theexamination.org | Kathryn Kranhold

This story is published in partnership with STAT. Perham Gorji was a career government lawyer, helping to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s battle against tobacco and e-cigarettes. He was there as the agency contemplated a ban on menthol cigarettes, and as vapes of all shapes and sizes flooded the market, hooking a new generation on nicotine. Last year, Gorji followed a well-trodden path for Washington, D.C., lawyers.