Mercola cites research finding the heaviest cell phone users are twice as likely to develop glioma, and that people who have used a cell or cordless phone for more than 25 years face triple the risk. IARC classified cell phones as possibly carcinogenic in 2011.
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Environment
Shocking news from Ontario - newsletter from fluoridealert.org
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter warns that a push is under way to make water fluoridation mandatory across Ontario, reversing years of local campaigns, and reports the group's year-end fundraiser had reached $43,264 from 227 donors toward a $150,000 goal.
Environment
Why Ditching Antibacterial Soap Is a Good Idea
Mercola argues antibacterial soap is unnecessary and risky, citing research that triclosan can alter hormone regulation and may interfere with fetal development. Traces appeared in all urine samples from a group of pregnant women in Brooklyn.
Environment
Americans Have More Toxic Flame Retardants in Their Bodies Than Previously Thought... Free Test Can Determine if You’re Sitting on Toxic Furniture
Mercola reports tests found six types of flame retardant in Americans, including tris phosphate, not detected here before, and chlorinated tris, phased out of children's pajamas in the 1970s. The chemicals have been linked to reduced fertility, thyroid problems and neurodevelopmental delays.
Agriculture
Four-state cattle conference set Dec. 10 in Texarkana
The Four States Cattle Conference runs Dec. 10 at the Four States Fairgrounds in Texarkana, Arkansas, with Colorado State's Temple Grandin as featured speaker. Registration is $30 including lunch, and those signing up by Dec. 1 enter a drawing for a $250 VetGun.
Environment
Radiation exposure linked to aggressive thyroid cancers
Among nearly 12,000 Belarusians exposed as children or teenagers to Chernobyl fallout, higher estimated thyroid radiation doses were associated with more aggressive tumor features. Lydia Zablotska says those exposed young, including after Fukushima, should probably be screened regularly.
Agriculture
Conference theme is future use of water and its impact on agriculture
The Texas Plant Protection Association conference in Bryan on December 10-11 takes the future use of water and its effect on agriculture as its theme, and includes a session on canola, whose acreage has grown past 300,000 acres across the Southern Great Plains in the past decade.
Environment
What Effect Does Your Hamburger Have on The Environment? A Lot Says This New Movie
A review of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a documentary arguing that environmental groups ignore animal agriculture's role in deforestation, methane and ocean degradation, and catching representatives of the NRDC and Oceana off guard on camera.
Environment
EWG Action Alert: Flame retardants
EWG urges readers to back the Children and Firefighter Protection Act, which would ban 10 flame retardants from children's products and upholstered furniture. An EWG-Duke study found a biomarker of the retardant TDCIPP in all 22 mothers and 26 children tested, averaging five times higher in kids.
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Antibiotics may help Salmonella spread in infected animals, Stanford scientists learn
Stanford researchers gave oral antibiotics to mice infected with Salmonella typhimurium. A superspreader minority stayed healthy, while the rest grew sicker and began shedding heavily too. The authors say the result raises questions about routine low-dose antibiotics in livestock.
Environment
Asbestos Likely More Widespread Than Previously Thought
Geologists reported newly identified naturally occurring asbestos minerals in the Las Vegas area, including Boulder City, Nevada, where a highway bypass is planned. Researcher Rodney Metcalf says the fibrous amphiboles turned up where no one would think to look.
Environment
Liquid detergent pods pose risk to children's eye health
A report in the Journal of AAPOS describes ten children under 4 treated at Cincinnati Children's for eye injuries after laundry or dishwasher detergent pods burst. The authors say the brightly colored pods attract young children and can cause significant corneal injury.
Agriculture
Compound from Bacteria Could Be Useful Against Pecan Scab
USDA scientists found that bacteria living in the guts of beneficial nematodes make compounds that suppress Fusicladium effusum, the fungus behind pecan scab. The most toxic extract contained trans-cinnamic acid, active at low concentrations in lab cultures.
Agriculture
"2,000 Bull Project" Targets Cattle Traits
USDA's Agricultural Research Service began its 2,000 Bull Project in 2007 in Clay Center, Nebraska, gathering genomic profiles of 2,000 bulls across 16 breeds. For each breed it supplied the first substantial high-density genotype set for breed improvement programs.
Agriculture
Rebuilding the Beef Herd program set Sept. 25 at Camp Cooley Ranch
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension will hold Rebuilding the Beef Herd at Camp Cooley Ranch near Franklin on Sept. 25, covering market outlook, forage and stocking management, replacement heifer options and leased grazing, plus a ranch tour. Cost is $25 including lunch.
Environment
Help! FAN versus the ADA on Capitol Hill
The Fluoride Action Network asks readers to contact Congress after the American Dental Association urged its members to lobby their elected officials against FAN's fifth fluoride conference and its first lobby day in Washington.
Environment
Heavy use of cell phones linked to brain tumors - new study
A French case-control study found no significant difference in brain tumor risk between cell phone users and non-users overall. But among the heaviest users, those logging more than 896 lifetime hours, risk of glioma ran 189 percent higher and meningioma 157 percent higher than in non-users.
Environment
Dirty deeds, dirty dozen - Nrews email from EWG
An Environmental Working Group fundraising email spotlights atrazine, a herbicide whose residues turn up on most American corn crops and in drinking water, and which can turn male frogs into egg-producing females. Donors of $15 or more before August 27 get its Dirty Dozen booklet.
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