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Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday acknowledged that the Vatican's instructions against using birth control are complicated, even as he praised a 1968 Roman Catholic Church document that condemned contraception.

In a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the document, Benedict reiterated the church's ban against artificial birth control, as well as more recent teachings against using artificial procreation methods.

Pope Paul VI's 1968 "Humanae vitae" ("On Human Life") encyclical prohibits Catholics from using artificial birth control.

"The teaching laid out in the 'Humanae vitae' encyclical isn't easy," Benedict said.

"What was true yesterday remains true even today. The truth expressed in 'Humanae vitae' doesn't change; on the contrary, in the light of new scientific discoveries, it is ever more up to date," the pope added.

The Dominican Republic has expanded subsidies on basic food staples to maintain calm after deadly food riots recently struck neighboring Haiti.

Trucks loaded with milk, chicken, eggs and other food staples have been rumbling across the Caribbean nation, where almost half of 9.5 million residents live in poverty.

The subsidized food is on average 30 percent below supermarket prices. The government recently expanded the effort by selling a $3 package that includes a frozen chicken and 4 pounds each of potatoes and onions. An estimated 20,000 of the packets are being sold daily, according to a Saturday news release.

PANAMA CITY — Panamanian investigators asked health authorities Saturday to track down patients whose names appeared on 6,000 bottles of medication contaminated with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid.

The bottles were handed over to the government two years ago when at least 116 people died after taking poisonous cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment made at a government laboratory. The medicines were found to be contaminated with diethylene glycol.

Investigators gave the Health Ministry a report on the 6,000 bottles in the hopes of determining how the patients were affected and if they still need treatment, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.

SANTIAGO — Help is on the way for hundreds of household pets left behind in the wake of a volcano eruption in southern Chile, an animal welfare group said Saturday.

The Coalition for Ethical Control of Urban Fauna, which has been critical of the government's attention to stranded animals, said the Emergency Bureau offered to carry food to pets in Chaiten, a town six miles from the volcano of the same name.

Contacted on Saturday, the bureau had no information.

An estimated 450 dogs and 350 cats were left when the town's residents were evacuated after the initial May 2 eruption, the volcano's first in thousands of years.