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Take action: Sign our sunscreen petition to the FDA
Dear Readers,
In 1978, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began to develop its first-ever sunscreen safety regulations. Thirty-three years later, the job still isn't done.
USDA may give consumers less information on pesticides in produce (PR)
Dear Readers,The response (read below) to last week's petition to the United States Department of Agriculture has been overwhelming!As a result, we have sent Agriculture ...
Testing fresh produce for pesticide residues
Dear Readers,
Since 1991, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been testing fresh produce for pesticide residues and releasing the findings. Environmental Working Group analyzes these ...
Tell President Obama & Secretary Vilsack to halt the planting of Monsanto's GMO alfalfa and sugar beets (PR)
Tell President Obama & Secretary Vilsack to halt the planting of Monsanto's GMO alfalfa and sugar beets
Food Democracy Now! Team
Dear Reader,
We are deeply concerned, and ...
Sign the Safe Cosmetics petition! (PR)
Dear Readers:
Myth: If the store sells it, it must be safe.
Fact: The government has no authority to require companies to test personal care products for ...
Chocolate milk in the lunchroom
by Aimee Keenan-Greene
The nation’s second-largest school district may remove chocolate and strawberry milk from the lunchroom menu.
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy recently announced he ...
Doctors Urge Congress to Shut Down Federal Programs Providing Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods (PR)
April 15, 2011
MEDIA CONTACT: Vaishali Honawar | 202-527-7339 | vhonawar@pcrm.org
Doctors Urge Congress to Shut Down Federal Programs Providing Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods
Billions of Dollars Pumped into Subsidies ...
Agricultural Subsidies Tax our Health
Agricultural Subsidies Tax our Health
By Neal Barnard, M.D.
This opinion piece was printed in the St. Petersburg Times on April 18, 2011.
As we wrap up tax season with ...
Unhealthy food ads that target kids
by Aimee Keenan-Greene
The government wants food companies to voluntarily cut back on ads that target children ages 2-17 and promote buying unhealthy foods.
Under newly released guidelines, marketing ...
EPA sacrifices science to protect fluoridation (PR)
Dear Readers,
On Jan 7, 2011, the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed lowering the recommended level used in the water fluoridation ...
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