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Chemical hazards: fluoride, pesticides, BPA and other contaminants.

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EWG's 2014 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™

EWG's 2014 guide ranks pesticide contamination on 48 crops using more than 32,000 USDA and FDA samples. Apples top the Dirty Dozen for a fourth year, alongside strawberries, grapes and celery; avocados lead the Clean Fifteen, and cauliflower is new to that list.

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Apples and chemicals

An Environmental Working Group fundraising appeal defending its report on diphenylamine, a preservative used on stored apples that is banned in Europe but widely applied to US conventional fruit, against criticism from the Alliance for Food and Farming.

Apr 27, 2014

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Journal Article Calls for End of Fluoridation & FAN Conference

The Fluoride Action Network points to a Scientific World Journal article calling for a worldwide reassessment of fluoridation over effectiveness and health concerns, and gives details of its fifth Citizens' Conference on Fluoride on Sept. 6-7 and a lobby day that Monday.

Apr 22, 2014

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Are You Eating These Foods Full of Estrogen?

The piece argues people take in estrogenic compounds from plastics, cosmetics and agricultural chemicals, and also natural phytoestrogens in everyday foods, and suggests women with PMS, fibrocystic disease or breast cancer risk may want to watch their intake.

Apr 17, 2014

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Copper Assoiciated with Alzheimer's Disease

Among 141 people with mild cognitive impairment, those with the highest copper levels were three times as likely to develop Alzheimer's within four years as those with the lowest. Copper was the only factor tested that showed a significant increase in risk.

Apr 16, 2014

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Over 85 Groups Join Worldwide Alliance

A Fluoride Action Network bulletin reports more than 50 additional groups from 12 countries joined its Worldwide Alliance to End Fluoridation in a week, and notes that councilors in Hamilton, New Zealand voted to restart fluoridation, a decision now facing judicial review.

Apr 3, 2014

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Introducing the FAN Study Tracker

The Fluoride Action Network has launched a Study Tracker holding more than 1,500 abstracts and over 400 full-text studies on fluoride and health, filterable by category, study type and date, and including more than 25 previously unreleased translations.

Mar 13, 2014

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Petition for removal of azodicarbonamide (ADA) from food

The Environmental Working Group says its analysis found azodicarbonamide — a foaming agent for plastics used as a dough conditioner in baked goods — in nearly 500 foods, and is petitioning Pillsbury, Sara Lee, Tyson, Kroger and other brands to stop using it.

Mar 10, 2014

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Chronic aluminum intake causes Alzheimer's disease

J.R. Walton of the University of New South Wales argues in a paper that Alzheimer's disease is a human form of chronic aluminum neurotoxicity, and that routine intake of aluminum from processed foods and treated drinking water causes it.

Mar 10, 2014

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Fluoride Labeled a Developmental Neurotoxin

A Fluoride Action Network newsletter reports that commissioners in Hernando County, Florida rejected fluoridation and that New South Wales legislators killed a bill forcing communities to fluoridate, plus pending votes in Owen Sound, Ontario and Hartford, Vermont.

Mar 5, 2014

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Fluoride Newly Identified as Dangerous to Brains

The Fluoride Action Network points to a March 2014 Lancet Neurology paper by Grandjean and Landrigan classing fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin. They cite a meta-analysis of 27 studies suggesting an average seven-point IQ decrement in children exposed to raised fluoride.

Feb 20, 2014

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Toxin in seafood causes kidney damage in mice at levels considered safe for consumption (PR)

Mice given domoic acid, the shellfish toxin known for causing brain damage, showed kidney damage at concentrations 100 times lower than those producing neurological effects. The authors say officials may need to revisit safe limits for the toxin in seafood.

Feb 9, 2014

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Liver tumors found in mice exposed to BPA (PR)

University of Michigan researchers found 27 percent of mice exposed to BPA through their mothers' diet during gestation and nursing developed liver tumours or precancerous lesions, with risk rising by dose. They say more research is needed on what this means for humans.

Feb 4, 2014

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House Passes Farm Bill -- Vote Coming in Senate

The Fluoride Action Network reports that conference negotiators added language reversing EPA's proposed phase-out of sulfuryl fluoride by excluding non-pesticidal fluoride sources from exposure assessments. The House passed the 1,000-page bill 251-166, sending it to the Senate.

Jan 30, 2014

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Exposure to pesticides results in smaller worker bees (PR)

Bumblebee colonies exposed to a pyrethroid pesticide produced smaller workers, Royal Holloway researchers report in the Journal of Applied Ecology. They tracked colony growth over four months and say smaller bees are likely less efficient at collecting nectar and pollen.

Jan 23, 2014

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Fluoridation: Dirty Politics in New Zealand

A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin, reporting $92,878 raised from 503 donors toward a $120,000 goal and introducing Mary Byrne's annual account of the fluoridation fight in New Zealand.

Dec 28, 2013

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Cinnamon you use may contain toxic chemical coumarin

Cassia cinnamon, widely sold in the US simply as cinnamon, contains coumarin, a chemical known to damage the liver. True Ceylon cinnamon contains little of it.

Dec 28, 2013

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Will Antibiotics Soon Be Gone From Meat? Dream On

Farm Sanctuary's Bruce Friedrich calls the FDA's livestock antibiotic guidance “a garden hose on a forest fire”: drug makers are asked to voluntarily drop growth-promotion wording from labels, while the same antibiotics stay legal for treating illness bred by crowded conditions.

Dec 25, 2013

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