A study in Environmental Health Perspectives detected arsenic in supermarket chicken from 10 US cities, including organic birds, and its authors estimate over 100 US deaths from arsenic-related cancers if the drug were fed to all chickens. The National Chicken Council called the levels very low.
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Food Safety
Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.
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Chemical
Is aspartame toxic?
Rycerz and Jaworska-Adamu report in Folia Neuropathology that aspartame breaks down into phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol, all of which can be toxic, and note its metabolite diketopiperazine can cause central nervous system cancers.
Chemical
A Second Celebrity Video Opposing Fluoridation
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter announcing a second celebrity spot, with actor Ed Asner arguing fluoride should be a choice rather than a mandate, plus a Paul Connett talk in Lafayette, Colorado and news of Irish campaigner Robert Pocock's death.
GMO
End Climate Chaos: Boycott GMOs and Factory-Farmed Food
An essay argues that chemical-, energy- and GMO-intensive industrial agriculture and factory farms have stripped soil of its ability to sequester CO2, and that climate and farming conditions will keep deteriorating until US farmers and ranchers abandon that model.
Chemical
Stinging: EPA Wants to Approve Yet Another Bee-Killing Pesticide
The European Commission has moved to ban neonicotinoid pesticides tied to honeybee losses while the EPA weighs approving Dow's sulfoxaflor, which the agency itself calls very highly toxic to bees. Beekeepers say approval would end commercial beekeeping by 2018.
Chemical
US EPA hikes glyphosate limits in food and feed - again
GMWatch reports the US EPA proposing higher glyphosate residue limits, including 100 ppm in teff animal feed and 40 ppm in oilseeds, with rises in some produce. It pairs this with a study finding glyphosate inhibits beneficial gut bacteria such as E. faecalis while leaving C. botulinum unaffected.
GMO
Pig 26: Another GE? Another Deceit? Another Folly (Like Dolly)?
The Roslin Institute calls its Pig 26 genetically edited and says the animal may resist infections such as African swine fever, but the writer argues it is still engineered, leaves no detectable trace, and appeals to industry mainly as a route around current regulation and labeling.
GMO
Science Media Centre invents more GM "good news" stories
A critic accuses the Science Media Centre of manufacturing a GM news story out of Roslin Institute research and pushing it aggressively while staying out of view, calling that non-attributed promotion with a political and commercial agenda rather than impartial reporting.
GMO
10 reasons why we don’t need GM foods
An anti-GM leaflet argues that biofuel production, not scarcity, drove the 2008 food price spike, and that GM has raised the yield potential of no commercial crop, citing reduced yields in GM soya and quoting scientists who call the feed-the-world case a PR exercise.
GMO
Seven Days With Seven Celebrity Doctors Summit
The Institute for Responsible Technology promotes JJ Virgin's free Seven Days With Seven Doctors Summit, running May 8 to 15 with a daily webinar. IRT receives 50 percent of the profits from summit library purchases made through its subscribers.
Chemical
Message From Clean Water Portland
A fundraising appeal from Clean Water Portland carrying a letter from actor Ed Begley Jr., who urges Portland voters to reject fluoridation on the coming ballot and asks for $15,000 in seven days. An editor's comment frames fluoridation as a matter of personal choice.
Food Safety FAQ
Why is the Meat So Red? Is It Safe?
Carbon monoxide keeps packaged meat looking red, and US and European food safety bodies have questioned whether that makes it look fresher than it is. Nitrite curing carries cancer links: a 2008 report tied a daily hot dog to 21 percent higher colorectal risk.
Biotech
Say No to This Boneless "Meat" - It's Weirder Than You Ever Suspected
KFC rolled out boneless Original Recipe chicken across its 4,500 US locations and may drop bone-in chicken entirely. Nearly four of five US chicken servings are now off the bone, the reverse of 30 years ago, and Mercola warns processed nuggets carry additives and fillers.
Chemical
10 Facts About Fluoride You Need to Know
Mercola points to a Fluoride Action Network talk by attorney Michael Connett listing 10 claims about fluoride: most developed countries do not fluoridate, WHO data show no clear tooth decay gap between those that do and do not, and fluoride reaches tissues beyond teeth.
Biological
Exposed: Why You Should Boycott Farmed Salmon
Biologist Alex Morton blames fish farms for the decline of British Columbia's wild pacific salmon, pointing to sea lice and viruses, and says the Canadian government is covering up her research. The post also faults the FDA's move to approve engineered salmon.
Biological
Bacon and Food Safety
A USDA primer on bacon: the term covers the cured belly of a hog, and meat from elsewhere on the carcass must say so, as in pork shoulder bacon. It traces the word through Middle English, French and Old Teutonic roots, and notes US streaky bacon is sold raw and must be cooked.
Chemical
Grapes and celery - pesticide issue?
EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide ranks pesticide residues on 48 popular fruits and vegetables using more than 28,000 USDA and FDA samples. Apples top the Dirty Dozen, followed by strawberries, grapes and celery, while corn, pineapples and avocados make the Clean Fifteen.
Chemical
Plastic and Cancerous Compounds in Tea Bags—A Surprising Source of Potential Toxins
Some newer tea bags are made of nylon, rayon or other plastics steeped in hot water, and many paper bags are treated with epichlorohydrin, a suspected carcinogen that hydrolyzes to 3-MCPD, a compound shown to cause cancer in animals and linked to infertility in male rats.
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