A California Superior Court lawsuit accuses 28 wineries, among them Franzia, Sutter Home, Charles Shaw and Beringer, of selling wines containing inorganic arsenic at up to 500% or more of the maximum acceptable daily intake without warning consumers, mostly cheap white and blush varietals.
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Major Media Coverage & Harvard Prof. Calls For Lower Fluoride Levels
Newsweek covered a study in Environmental Health reporting that state rates of artificial water fluoridation in 1992 predicted state ADHD prevalence in 2003, 2007 and 2011 even after controlling for socioeconomic status. The authors describe it as an ecological association.
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Cooking with spices/herbs prevents toxic chemicals in cooked meat
A new study confirms that polyphenols from spices and herbs lower the concentrations of thermally induced toxic chemicals, and raise antioxidant levels, during the Maillard browning reaction that occurs when meat is cooked at high temperature.
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Does alcohol make you red-faced? Stop drinking alcohol!
People who flush red after drinking often lack acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, the enzyme that clears alcohol's toxic metabolite acetaldehyde, a recognised carcinogen. Studies put their risk of oral, esophageal and stomach cancers 10 to 20 times higher.
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New ADHD Study, More on Thyroid Study & Latest Victories - fluoridealert.org
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin on a study in Environmental Health reporting that 1992 state fluoridation rates predicted state ADHD prevalence in 2003, 2007 and 2011 even after controlling for socioeconomic status. The authors describe it as an ecological association.
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Pesticides in food
Environmental Working Group's updated produce rankings put apples, peaches, nectarines, strawberries and grapes at the top of the Dirty Dozen for pesticide residues, with avocados, sweet corn, pineapples and cabbage leading the Clean 15.
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New study reveals toxicity of fluoride - hypothyroidism
In a Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health study of English GP practice data, areas with drinking water fluoride above 0.7ppm were 62 percent more likely to have high rates of diagnosed hypothyroidism than areas below 0.3ppm. The authors call for a rethink of policy.
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Aspartame may be a stressor
Rats fed 40 mg of aspartame per kg of body weight daily for 90 days showed higher corticosterone, lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide and lower antioxidants, which University of Madras researchers read as aspartame acting as a chemical stressor that alters immune function.
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Sialic acid in red meat, milk is a risk factor for cancer
A PNAS study led by Annie Samraj found long-term exposure to Neu5Gc, a sialic acid present in red meat and dairy but not in plants, chicken or fish, produced a five-fold rise in carcinomas in mice that do not make the acid, apparently by promoting systemic inflammation.
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When it comes to turkey, bigger isn't always better
Center for Food Safety and allied groups are suing the FDA over its 2008 approval of ractopamine in turkey feed, saying the agency never fully studied the growth drug. The piece cites tremors and cardiovascular problems in animals and a six-man study in which three reported heart pounding.
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How Safe is Your Tap Water? Not Very, Judging From Fish!
The Associated Press reports painkillers, antibiotics and psychiatric, cholesterol, asthma and heart drugs in many public drinking water systems, along with bisphenol A. Fish caught near wastewater plants carry drug residues, and male fish near Montreal are developing ovaries.
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More highly toxic compound superweed-killers on the way!
Monsanto has a triple stack GMO cotton tolerant to dicamba, glyphosate and glufosinate up for deregulation, while the EPA approved Dow's Enlist Duo over a letter signed by 50 members of Congress. Glyphosate-resistant weeds now cover about 70 million acres.
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Response needed: 2,4-D approved
The EPA approved Dow's Enlist Duo, which combines 2,4-D with glyphosate, for use on genetically engineered crops. EWG, which opposed it, cites links between 2,4-D and Parkinson's disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and suppressed immunity, and asks readers to donate.
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BREAKING: EPA Approves ‘Agent Orange’ Deadly Duo Poison. Take the Factory Farm Free Pledge!
The EPA approved Dow's Enlist Duo, a mix of Roundup and 2,4-D, for use on Dow's herbicide-tolerant corn and soy, over objections from more than 60 members of Congress. The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to pledge to boycott factory-farmed meat, eggs and dairy.
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White House Plan to Address Antibiotic Resistance Is Too Weak to Protect Human Health
Dr. Mercola argues the White House's five-year plan on antibiotic resistance is too slow, citing the CDC's finding that drug-resistant organisms in the food supply are a serious threat, two million resistant infections a year in the U.S. and at least 23,000 deaths.
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GE crops and the chemical arms race - news from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety urges readers to press President Obama to block EPA approval of Dow's Enlist Duo, a mix of glyphosate and 2,4-D made for genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton, arguing more herbicide only escalates the arms race against superweeds.
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243 chemicals have been recognized as carcinogens in the U.S.
HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell released the National Toxicology Program's 13th Report on Carcinogens, a congressionally mandated document identifying agents known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans. It carries 243 listings made since 1980 and replaces earlier editions.
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HHS Releases 13th Report on Carcinogens
HHS added four substances to its Report on Carcinogens, which now holds 243 listings. It reclassified ortho-toluidine as a known human carcinogen and listed 1-bromopropane, cumene and pentachlorophenol as reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens.
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