FDA's Howard Seltzer proposes New Year food safety resolutions, warning that foodborne illness can be life-threatening for older adults, infants, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems. He urges washing hands with soap for at least 20 seconds and using a second cutting board.
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Food Safety
Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.
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GMO
Wholesale Approval of Genetically Engineered Foods Obama Administration Disappoints/Angers Public
The Cornucopia Institute objects that USDA approved Monsanto's drought-tolerant GE corn over the holidays despite nearly 45,000 opposing public comments against 23 in favor, with no safety tracking. USDA also opened comment on two more petitions, including a Monsanto omega-3 soybean.
Chemical
New Study on Fluoride Shows No Benefits and Major Safety Issues
Mercola reports on a review of 11 trials in more than 7,000 children that could not determine whether fluoride supplements benefit primary teeth. Ten trials carried unclear risk of bias and one high risk, which the reviewers called weak evidence.
GMO
Action Alert: Say 'No' to Dow Chemical's GE Corn Petition -- Proven in the Jungles of Vietnam as Part of Agent Orange!
Dow Chemical has asked USDA to deregulate corn engineered to resist 2,4-D, a herbicide used in Agent Orange, and the public has 60 days to comment. Cornucopia urges opposition, citing worker eye and skin irritation and animal data on fetal harm.
Chemical
A Moral Obligation to Tell the Truth
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter reporting its largest fundraiser yet, $74,168 from 512 donors, extending a coffee mug offer through January 7, and introducing media director Carol Kopf, who describes how a college journalism assignment started her work on fluoridation.
Biological
Don’t Let Yersiniosis Spoil Your Holidays!
Cleaning and cooking raw hog intestines for chitterlings can spread Yersinia enterocolitica to counters, utensils and even baby bottles and pacifiers, USDA warns. It advises thawing in the refrigerator, buying precooked chitterlings or pre-boiling raw ones for five minutes, and thorough handwashing.
Chemical
Fluoride Science is Tobacco Science
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising letter introduces science director Chris Neurath, who recounts his work on fluoride and osteosarcoma and, quoting Christopher Bryson, calls fluoride science tobacco science. The appeal reports $67,708 raised from 446 donors.
GMO
Johnny (Non-GMO) Apple Seed
A first-person appeal recounting readers, physicians and health food store owners who dropped GMOs from their diets after encountering the Institute for Responsible Technology's radio talks, videos, pamphlets and conference presentations, offered as evidence the work keeps spreading years later.
GMO
Monsanto corn failing in four states - maybe more
The EPA says rootworms in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Nebraska are suspected of tolerating Monsanto's Bt corn, with damage reports from other states too. It calls Monsanto's resistance monitoring inadequate, warns Smartstax could hasten resistance, and suggests conventional insecticides.
Chemical
Fluoride fighting frog produces giant leap
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reporting $48,178 raised from 281 donors toward a $100,000 goal by December 31, announcing a match on the next $500 donated, and profiling volunteer video editor Jack Cook.
GMO
Why is it Suddenly Cheaper to Eat Out?
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch report found grocery prices rising 2.5 times as fast as restaurant prices, since stores pass increases straight to shoppers while restaurants buy in bulk or cut wages. Dr. Mercola argues sticker price ignores nutritional quality.
GMO
Could 93% of These Beans be Cancer-Causing?
Mercola lists foods he says are best avoided, among them genetically engineered crops, canned acidic foods, corn-fed beef and microwave popcorn, and argues that glyphosate in Roundup Ready crops locks up nutrients, cannot be washed off, and is suspected of causing genetic damage.
Chemical
An ambitious campaign against an unacceptable reality
Paul Connett updates readers on a fundraiser that has brought in $16,621 from 191 donors toward a $100,000 goal, and describes how his Zero Waste work and 15 years of fluoridation campaigning led to the book The Case Against Fluoride.
Biological
Holiday food safety tips
The FDA's Howard Seltzer runs through holiday kitchen basics: wash hands for 20 seconds, clean surfaces between foods, skip rinsing raw meat and poultry, keep raw eggs, meat and seafood away from ready-to-eat foods, and check internal temperatures with a thermometer.
Chemical
Good News, Bad News about Fluoridation
A fundraising letter from the Fluoride Action Network reporting $8,008 raised from 65 donors against a $100,000 year-end goal, and arguing that ending fluoridation takes political will built by informing and organizing people.
Biological
Holiday Tip of the Day: Keep Food Safe
USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline offers buffet safety tips: wash hands, never serve on plates that held raw meat, and cook to safe internal temperatures — 145 °F for steaks and chops, 160 °F for ground meat, 165 °F for poultry — using shallow containers and the two-hour rule.
Chemical
2011 Science Bulletin- Evidence suggests fluoridation may not be a good idea
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin introducing Tara Blank, a biologist who joined as its science and health liaison, and her argument that children are already overexposed to fluoride through dental products, foods and beverages before any is added to drinking water.
GMO
Watch Out: These Foods Seriously Mess With Your Health
Mercola summarises a report coordinated by Navdanya, the Center for Food Safety and others, which argues GM crops have raised no crop's yield, bred superweeds and superpests, and increased pesticide use. It advises avoiding processed foods and eating organic to dodge GM ingredients.
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