The Fluoride Action Network accuses the Pew Charitable Trusts of lobbying communities into fluoridation, and reports two more British Columbia towns ending it. Williams Lake voted 2,453 to 970 to stop, a move it says saves taxpayers $94,000 a year.
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Travesty
An Environmental Working Group appeal urging readers to write Congress before Wednesday's Super Committee deadline, charging that Agriculture Committee leaders drafted the next farm bill in secret to win subsidies for large commodity farms at the expense of nutrition and organic programs.
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BREAKING NEWS: EWG airs Secret Farm Bill ad
Environmental Working Group says the farm subsidy lobby is trying to write its wish list into law through the budget Super Committee with no public justification or open debate, and has aired a television ad demanding an open farm bill debate.
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Future of Organic Food and Agriculture at Risk
The Cornucopia Institute is urging the USDA's National Organic Standards Board, meeting in Savannah, to reject petitions for synthetic preservatives and genetically modified ingredients in organic food. It says the panel is split between agribusiness representatives and organic advocates.
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Food Safety Tips for Healthy Holidays from FDA
FDA's holiday advice starts with cleaning: wash hands in warm soapy water for 20 seconds before and after handling food, wash boards, dishes and counters in hot soapy water between items, and rinse produce under cool running water. Older adults, infants, pregnant women and others face higher risk.
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Turkey FUNdamentals: Deep Fat Frying a Turkey
USDA's Diane Van sets out safe turkey frying: most fryers take a 12-to-16-pound bird, never stuff it, measure the oil by first covering the turkey with water, keep the pot under three-quarters full, and thaw about 24 hours per four to five pounds.
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Fluoride Action Update
Amesbury, Massachusetts voters ended 44 years of fluoridation on November 8th, with 55 percent rejecting the Board of Health's recommendation. Business owners are campaigning too: Austin's Hopdoddy Burgers filters fluoride from its water, and Martinelli's uses well water in its juice.
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URGENT ALERT: Protect Organics from GMO/Synthetic Additives and Factory Farms
An action alert from The Cornucopia Institute asking readers to print, sign and mail a proxy letter by November 30 urging the USDA's National Organic Standards Board to close loopholes on factory dairies and synthetic additives rather than weaken organic standards.
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Stop the Secret Farm Bill
The Environmental Working Group says House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders wrote the next farm bill privately, hoping to pass it through the Super Committee without debate or a vote, and asks readers to press their members of Congress to reject it.
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Turkey: FAQs
USDA answers common turkey questions: look for the inspection mark and the Grade A shield, pick a bird cold to the touch, and note that frozen turkey stays safe indefinitely, though whole birds are best used within 12 months and parts within 9.
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Fluoride-free Handouts for Halloween
A campaign page offering free printable handouts to give out with Halloween treats, arguing fluoridation is mass medication without informed consent, controlled dose or FDA approval, and urging readers to distribute them at schools, markets and workplaces.
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Hold the Raw Sprouts, Please
Sprout-linked outbreaks have hit the US every year since at least 1995, and sprouts caused a European Shiga toxin-producing E coli outbreak that killed 50 people. Warm, moist sprouting conditions let a single Salmonella organism reach an infectious dose, and the bacteria cannot be washed off.
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Avoid “Nightmares” on Halloween: Food Safety Tips
FDA advice for Halloween: feed children before trick-or-treating, inspect treats for pinholes, tears or discoloration and discard anything not commercially wrapped, remove choking hazards for young children, serve only pasteurized cider, and keep perishable party foods chilled.
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Food Chemical Regulations Rely Heavily on Industry Self-Policing and Lack Transparency (PR)
An analysis led by the Pew Health Group found food manufacturers and a trade association decided the safety of about a third of the 10,000-plus substances that may be added to food, with no FDA review. Pew's Tom Neltner says an expedited 1990s process cut the public out of those decisions.
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Black Licorice: Trick or Treat?
The FDA warns that people 40 and older who eat two ounces of black licorice a day for two weeks could end up hospitalized with an irregular heartbeat. Glycyrrhizin from licorice root lowers potassium, which can also bring high blood pressure, swelling and heart failure.
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American Firm Building Partnerships at Chinese Seafood and Fisheries Expo, Qingdao China
Benjamin England's consulting firms FDAImports.com and ExportToUsa.com.cn are courting Chinese partners at the Qingdao seafood expo, which draws over 750 exhibitors from 35 nations, pitching label reviews and FDA compliance work to exporters.
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CDC Reveals Fluoridation Fails Alaskans but Touts Fluoridation Anyway (PR)
The Fluoride Action Network points to a CDC report finding 91% of rural Alaska Native adolescents have cavities whether or not their water is fluoridated. FAN notes the CDC blames poor diet and lack of dental care yet still recommends more fluoridation.
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Moms Against Fluoridation & Petition Update
The Fluoride Action Network promotes a new campaign, Moms Against Fluoridation, which is recruiting 100,000 mothers and collecting personal accounts of apparent harm, from dental fluorosis to thyroid, kidney, infant and pregnancy concerns, because the FDA gathers no adverse-effect data.
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