The Organic Consumers Association newsletter reports Campbell Soup told the group it will not raise prices or shrink margins after labeling products containing GMOs, and flags a closed-door USDA meeting on labeling with Monsanto and industry representatives.
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Chemical
Telemundo Airs Fluoridation TV Series
Telemundo's Atlanta affiliate aired a three-part news report on water fluoridation, including an interview with a CDC statistician about the lack of fluorosis data for Hispanics. Organizer Dan Stockin of The Lillie Center describes the outreach behind it.
Food
Fructose can increase breast cancer risk
Among mice genetically prone to breast cancer, nearly 60 percent fed a sugar-rich diet developed tumors versus 30 percent on a starch-dominant diet, and the sugar-fed mice had more lung metastases. The researchers traced the effect to fructose and 12-lipoxygenase signaling, not glucose.
Food
Campbell's to label GMOs!
Campbell's announced it will support mandatory GMO labeling and disclose genetically modified ingredients across brands including Pepperidge Farm, Prego and V8, and will leave coalitions opposing labeling. EWG thanks the company and asks readers to do the same.
GMO
Who Will Sell Out Vermont's GMO Labeling Law? - newsletter 010716 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter criticizes Elanco for advertising farm-animal drugs to consumers who will never buy them, and warns that a closed-door meeting between USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and labeling advocates could produce a compromise preempting Vermont's GMO labeling law.
Food
Statement from Tom Stenzel, President and CEO, United Fresh Produce Association
United Fresh Produce Association president Tom Stenzel says a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study shows students choose healthier meals because more fruits and vegetables are available, and urges Congress to keep rather than roll back the standards.
Food
Ring in the New Year with California Tortilla’s Super Food Burrito
California Tortilla adds a Super Food Burrito on January 4, 2016 for $7.39: mesquite chicken or vegetables with Mexican quinoa, feta, tomato, avocado and kale slaw in a whole wheat tortilla, also sold as a bowl. A Super Hero dress-up promotion runs January 14.
Chemical
FAN's 2015 Fundraiser Totals
The Fluoride Action Network's campaign closed at $132,238 from 530 donors, short of its $200,000 and 1,500-donor goals, so the group will approach foundations. Susan Nichols won the guessing contest, within $200 of the final total.
Food
Red meat, processed meat linked to breast cancer
A meta-analysis of 14 prospective cohorts tied the highest red and processed meat intakes to 10% and 8% higher breast cancer risk. A later analysis of 193,742 postmenopausal women in the NIH-AARP study put the increases at 25% and 27%.
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Some of FAN's Achievements and Victories in 2015
The Fluoride Action Network's fundraising appeal reports $125,530 raised from 484 donors and remembers Professor Robert Isaacson, who led the team behind a 1998 Brain Research study that found rats given 1 ppm fluoride for a year developed kidney and brain damage.
Politics
What to expect from Monsanto in January
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising appeal argues that USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack's invitation-only January meeting on GMO labeling will produce a voluntary QR code scheme rather than the mandatory labeling laws states like Vermont have passed.
Chemical
Just two days left to support our 2016 campaign!
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising appeal reporting $108,637 raised from 449 donors, announcing Michael as incoming director and releasing a public service announcement on dental fluorosis.
Drug
Bisphosphonates help some breast cancer patients
A Lancet meta-analysis of 18,766 women with early breast cancer found that among postmenopausal patients, bisphosphonate treatment cut recurrence 14%, bone recurrence 28% and breast cancer mortality 18%. No benefit appeared in premenopausal patients, and deaths from other causes were unchanged.
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Our Plans for 2016 - Fluoridealert.org
The Fluoride Action Network reports raising $95,810 from 406 donors toward a $200,000 year-end target, describes matching pledges from three donors, and has its new executive director outline the investigative work planned for 2016.
Chemical
FAN Releases New PSAs and Online Campaign
The Fluoride Action Network reports $98,428 raised from 430 donors toward a $200,000 goal, with supporters pledging $5,000 and $10,000 at the $100,000 and $110,000 marks, and releases two short PSAs on fluoride aimed at younger viewers.
Chemical
High ingested fluoride can damage skeletal bone
A Chinese study suggests high fluoride intake from drinking water and food may also damage skeletal bone, disturbing the arrangement of collagen fibers and lowering COL1A1 transcription and collagen production. Fluoride is added to about 74% of U.S. public drinking water.
Cancer
Physical activity, diet linked to ovarian cancer risk
Comparing 578 ovarian cancer cases with 7,188 controls, researchers tied vegetables to up to 20% and dairy foods to up to 40% lower risk, meat to up to 60% higher risk, and more than 160 minutes of weekly activity to 60% lower risk than 30 minutes or less.
Politics
Something is happening
An Organic Consumers Association year-end appeal arguing that healthy soil can grow more nutrient-dense food, store rainfall and draw carbon out of the atmosphere, and asking readers to help raise $160,000 by December 31 to meet a matching challenge.
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