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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Food Safety
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Biological
Salmonella poisoning - what you need to know
A consumer explainer on Salmonella: the bacteria bring diarrhea, fever, cramps and vomiting 12 to 72 hours after exposure and clear within 4 to 7 days without treatment in healthy people. Antibiotics matter only if the infection reaches the bloodstream.
Chemical
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.
Chemical
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.
GMO
Monsanto Loses GMO Labeling Battle in Vermont - newsletter from Organic Consumers Association
Vermont passed H.112, the first state law requiring GMO labeling with no trigger clause, and barring 'natural' claims on GMO-containing foods. The newsletter expects Monsanto to sue, and separately flags synthetic nutrients permitted in organic food.
Chemical
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.
Chemical
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.
GMO
Russia Rejects GMOs, Will Grow Organic Food Instead - newsletter from Institute for Responsible Technology
A newsletter roundup: Russia's prime minister and agriculture minister say the country will stay free of genetically engineered food, the USDA faces a suit over roughly 1,200 missing GMO alfalfa documents, and Kroger and Safeway say they will not sell GMO salmon.
GMO
Big Food might get its wish
EWG urges readers to tell their representatives to oppose Rep. Mike Pompeo's bill, which the group calls the DARK Act. It would block states from requiring labels on genetically engineered ingredients, bar FDA from mandating them, and allow GE foods to be called natural.
GMO
Send in the (Pro-GMO) Clowns - newsletter from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association attacks H.R. 4432, Rep. Mike Pompeo's “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014,” which would create a voluntary federal GMO labeling standard, bar states from requiring labels, and let “natural” appear on products containing GMOs.
Biological
FDA Decision to Expand Food Irradiation Masks Weak Import Inspections
Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch says the FDA's approval of ionizing radiation for crustaceans shows the agency leans on irradiation instead of hiring inspectors, and ties the move to Trans-Pacific Partnership talks that would expand Asian seafood imports.
GMO
Unlabeled GMO Salmon? Groups Call on FDA to Rein In Industry Claims
Food & Water Watch and the Center for Food Safety asked FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to correct an AquaBounty executive's claim that the agency has already decided its GMO salmon will be sold unlabeled. It is their third such request, and FDA has not acted.
GMO
Get the truth about GMOs
A promotional notice for the 2014 Food Revolution Summit, a week of free online interviews with 24 food and nutrition experts including Michael Hansen, Andrew Kimbrell, Vani Hari, Ken Cook and Raj Patel.
Chemical
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.
GMO
Organic Consumers Association Newsletter: The GMO Elephant in the Room
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter noting that the FDA's first nutrition label overhaul in 20 years, promoted by Michelle Obama, changes serving sizes, calorie type and listed vitamins, but says nothing about genetically modified ingredients.
Chemical
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.
Chemical
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.
Chemical
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.
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