Health Tip: Know the Rules of Sponge Safety

Sponges may be a handy way to wipe up messes in the kitchen, but they can also spread germs.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers this advice for safer kitchen sponges:

Don't use a sponge to wipe up spilled juices from meat.

FDA Rules on Six Tobacco Product Applications

The decisions were made on products for which approval was sought under a "substantial equivalence" pathway, under which manufacturers must show that the new products are similar to existing ones in terms of their public health impact.

Approved were two nonmentholated cigarettes made by Lorillard Tobacco under its Newport brand.