A new report says the FCC certifies cell phones using an industry-designed plastic head modeled on a large adult male, which may understate how much radiation smaller users absorb. Children may take up double in the head and up to ten times in bone marrow.
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Environment
Never Do This with Your Teeth - No Matter How "Safe" They Say It Is
Dr. Mercola writes that the FDA promised a decision on the safety of dental amalgam by the end of 2011, then said six minutes before the last workday ended that no announcement was coming and no deadline exists. He notes amalgam is 50% mercury and calls modern alternatives adequate.
Environment
Be Careful of 'Green' Cleaning Products as they May Not Be Very Green
Simple Green bills itself as non-toxic and environmentally safe but contains 2-butoxyethanol, a solvent shown to destroy red blood cells and cause reproductive problems and birth defects. It is not on the label: makers need not disclose every ingredient, and safety data sheets may omit some too.
Environment
"Stop Online Piracy Act" can hurt your right
An action page urging readers to oppose SOPA and PIPA, listing ways to reach Congress and naming opponents such as Google, Wikipedia, Facebook and the EFF against supporters including the RIAA, MPAA, Visa, Mastercard and Pfizer.
Environment
Estrogenic cosmetic chemicals - parabens found in breast cancer tissue
British researchers found one or more parabens in 158 of 160 breast tissue samples taken from 40 mastectomy patients, including seven women who said they had never used underarm products. Levels were four times higher than in a similar 2004 study.
Agriculture
Researchers: Honeybee deaths linked to seed insecticide exposure (PR)
Purdue scientists found neonicotinoid insecticides in every sample of dead and dying bees taken from Indiana apiaries, at high concentrations in waste talc exhausted by planting machinery and at low levels in soil, dandelion flowers and corn pollen. They say no single factor explains the losses.
Environment
Californians, please vote to shut down nuclear plants in the state
An email from a foodconsumer.org reader urging support for a California ballot initiative to shut the state's nuclear power plants, which needed more than half a million signatures from registered voters by the end of March 2012.
Environment
Tap Water in Neti Pot Kills Two People
Two people in Louisiana died after infection with the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, which they were exposed to through contaminated tap water used in a neti pot. The piece urges using only sterile, distilled, or boiled and cooled water for nasal irrigation.
Environment
Cell phone radiation linked to brain cancer - study confirms
Cardis and colleagues report in Occupational and Environmental Medicine that regular cell phone users were 7% more likely to be diagnosed with glioma and 20% more likely with meningioma, and that the most heavily exposed group was 35% more likely to develop glioma.
Environment
1 in 9 high school seniors try illicit drugs
A national survey found 11.4 percent of high school seniors, about one in nine, got high in the past year on synthetic drugs such as K2 or Spice, second only to marijuana. Poison control centers logged twice as many related calls in 2011 as in 2010, and 40-plus states have banned them.
Environment
Health Canada Admits Studies on Cell Phones Convincing Enough to Promote Limited Use
Health Canada proposes precautionary guidelines urging shorter calls and hands-free or text use, joining Russia, the UK, Israel, France and others. The piece cites WHO/IARC's 2011 'possibly carcinogenic' classification and an NIH study reporting altered brain activity after 50 minutes of exposure.
Environment
Radiation from Cell Phones and WiFi Are Making People Sick -- Are You at Risk?
Mercola argues that cell phones, Wi-Fi and cordless devices leave everyone exposed to microwave radiation, and cites estimates that 3 to 8 percent of people in developed countries have serious electrohypersensitivity symptoms while 35 percent have mild ones.
Agriculture
Atrazine harms amphibians and other water animals
An international team revisited evidence that the herbicide atrazine, banned in Europe but heavily used in the United States, disrupts animal reproduction. Professor Van Beasley points to at least 10 studies of male frogs showing sex changes, though the study designs differ widely.
Environment
ALERT -- Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. Airports
A Mercola post noting the European Commission banned backscatter X-ray body scanners from airports in November 2011 while they stayed in use in the United States. He argues the ionizing radiation causes cumulative DNA damage and urges travellers to opt for a pat-down.
Environment
Wireless electronics may harm men's fertility
Researchers placed semen samples from 29 volunteers under a wirelessly connected laptop for four hours. Afterwards 25 percent of the sperm were no longer moving and 9 percent showed DNA damage. The authors say laptops used near the reproductive organs may lower sperm quality.
Environment
How the Telecom Industry Seeks to Confuse About the Dangers of Cell Phones
Mercola argues a BMJ study reporting no link between long-term cell phone use and brain tumors was built to fail: it excluded more than 300,000 business users, roughly 30% of the original group, and counted anyone making one call a week for six months as a user.
Environment
Standards: Daylight Saving Time (DST)
Most of the US turns clocks back an hour at 2 a.m. local time, but Hawaii, most of Arizona and several territories skip it. The 2005 Energy Policy Act moved Daylight Saving Time to the second Sunday in March through the first Sunday in November. About 70 countries observe it.
Environment
Goats could increase the risk of a rare lung cancer (PR)
French researchers comparing 44 patients who had pneumonic-type lung adenocarcinoma with 132 controls found people with occupational exposure to goats were five times more likely to have that subtype than other lung cancers. The subtype was also associated with women and people who never smoked.
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