Mercola reports a lawsuit against Southern California's Metropolitan Water District alleging deceptive practices in adding a fluoridation chemical, and New York City legislation to prohibit fluoridation. He notes hydrofluosilicic acid is a waste product of the phosphate fertiliser industry.
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Water Fluoridation Injury Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court
A 13-year-old with dental fluorosis is suing Nestle U.S.A., Nestle Waters North America and Gerber, claiming fluoridated bottled water discolored her teeth and the companies failed to warn buyers. Her mother seeks the cost of covering up the damage, put at over $100,000 over a lifetime.
Law & Regulations
RED ALERT: FDA Set to Ban Your Supplements
Mercola warns that the FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredients would make manufacturers run costly safety studies at very high doses, pushing many out of business and pulling fish oil formulas and plant extracts off the market, and urges readers to act against it.
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National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods to Hold Public Meetings
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods would meet Sept. 27-30 in Washington to discuss curbing foodborne norovirus and using microbiological criteria as process-control indicators.
Advisories
USDA: "Referee a Safe Football Tailgate Party"
USDA food safety officials pitch tailgate rules in football terms: wash hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds before and after handling food, keep raw meat on its own cutting board and off the cooked platter, and check temperatures with a food thermometer.
Advisories
Kids 'n Fiber - FDA (Video)
An FDA video in which dietitian Shirley Blakely cooks good-tasting high-fiber foods with a group of kids.
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Dietary Supplement Importers Won’t Be Exempt From New FDA Fees According to FDAImports.com
Benjamin England of FDAImports.com warns that the FDA food inspection and re-examination fees starting October 1, 2011 will also hit dietary supplement importers, because federal law deems a supplement a food. His firm has launched a coalition opposing the import fees.
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Help Alicia Silverstone Protect EU Ban on Animal-Tested Cosmetics (PR)
A reader alert reporting that Alicia Silverstone and Kristin Bauer have written to EU health commissioner John Dalli urging him to keep the 2013 deadline for banning cosmetics tested on animals, and inviting readers to send their own letters.
Advisories
Consumers Urged to “Cook It Safe” When Preparing Convenience Foods
From September, USDA's food safety agency joins the FDA, industry groups and food-safety educators in a “Cook It Safe” campaign urging people to follow package instructions for frozen and refrigerated convenience foods. A 2011 survey found only 61 percent do.
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Letter from President Obama _ frustrated
A campaign email from President Obama asking supporters to press Congress to act on the jobs plan he will lay out in a joint session.
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Dust Flying in Countryside over USDA Animal ID Proposal (PR)
Forty-nine farm, ranch and consumer groups asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for 60 more days to comment on the USDA's proposed interstate livestock traceability rule, saying the deadline falls during harvest and a record drought and that over 40 percent of farms lack internet access.
Advisories
What Consumers Need to Know About Food and Water Safety During Hurricanes, Power Outages, and Floods
FDA advises keeping appliance thermometers in the refrigerator, at 40 F or below, and the freezer, at 0 F or below; freezing water and gel packs in advance; grouping frozen food together; having coolers ready if power will be out over four hours; and storing food above possible flood water.
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New Coalition Seeks To Rally Food Manufacturers and Importers Against New FDA Fees (PR)
Benjamin England of FDAImports.com is organizing a coalition of food importers and foreign manufacturers to challenge the FDA's broad reading of a Food Safety Modernization Act provision letting it bill them for re-inspections. Comments close Oct. 31, after the fees take effect.
Advisories
USDA Offers Food Safety Tips In Advance of Hurricane Irene
Ahead of Hurricane Irene, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service urged residents to keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer, freeze water and gel packs, move perishables into the freezer, and line up coolers and block or dry ice before the power fails.
Law & Regulations
FDA To Impose New Fees on Food Imports; Increase in Food Costs Imminent? (PR)
A press release warns that the FDA’s re-examination fees under the Food Safety Modernization Act, due October 1, 2011, will charge importers $224 an hour plus expenses. It argues the FDA defines “first examination” so broadly that most shipments will qualify.
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Another Victory & Fluoride Awareness Week (PR)
The Fluoride Action Network, with Joseph Mercola, declared August 8-13 Fluoride Awareness Week and relaunched FAN's website with new Take Action pages. Philomath's city council also voted 6-1 to stand by its May decision to ban fluoride from the city's water supply.
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USDA and Corporate Agribusiness Continue to Push Animal ID Scheme (PR)
USDA proposed a rule requiring mandatory animal traceability well beyond existing disease-control programs. Family farm and ranch groups including R-CALF USA and the Cornucopia Institute say the agency has not explained why the tagging and tracing program is necessary.
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International Organic Scandal: Major Canadian Grain Exporter’s Certification Suspended (PR)
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency suspended the organic certification of Jirah Milling and Sales of Quebec, which sold thousands of tonnes of organic feed soybeans and grain into US markets. Cornucopia's Mark Kastel says growers had questioned its below-cost prices for years.
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