A CDC overview of FoodNet, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network run with 10 state health departments, USDA and FDA. It tracks Campylobacter, STEC, Listeria, Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio, Yersinia, Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora across about 46 million people in 2010.
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Food Safety
Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.
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GMO
The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora
Mercola interviews Don Huber, who says he found a new organism in genetically engineered animal feed that he links to infertility and miscarriage in livestock, connects it and glyphosate to crop 'sudden death syndrome', and argues GE plants can carry 80 to 90 percent less iron, manganese and zinc.
Chemical
Arsenic exposure linked to hypertension
A meta-analysis of 11 studies found people with the highest arsenic exposure had a 27% higher risk of hypertension than the least exposed. EPA caps arsenic in drinking water at 10 ppb; an FDA study reported 50 ppb in chicken meat in 2011.
Chemical
New York State may Waste Medicaid Dollars on Fluoridation
The NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation says the state health department wants to spend Medicaid funds on fluoridation equipment and staff, while New York City already spends $25 million a year and decay stays high among low-income residents. It says Pew is lobbying to bypass local votes.
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Fluoride Action Network Wants Your Donations
The Fluoride Action Network's year-end appeal reports $1,818 raised from 21 donors toward a $100,000 goal. It cites dental fluorosis in 41% of adolescents, up from 22% in 1986, and a 25th study linking fluoride in drinking water to lower IQ.
GMO
Inspiring story shows shortcut to end GMOs - from Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith describes a San Francisco Greenfest talk where an audience that admitted barely trying to avoid GMOs committed to doing so within 11 minutes, after seeing photos of damaged organs in GM-fed rats and hearing how he says industry shapes and suppresses research.
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25 Studies Prove This Reduces Your IQ
Dr. Mercola interviews Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network, reporting that 31 communities in Canada, New Zealand and the US voted to stop fluoridating in 13 months, and citing 25 studies associating fluoride with lower IQ at levels as low as 0.3 to 3 ppm.
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FAN's most ambitious and most important fundraiser ever!
A fundraising appeal from the Fluoride Action Network seeking $100,000 from 500 donors to replenish accounts drawn down to hire two staff members, citing more than 30 communities that have ended fluoridation since October 2010.
GMO
Avoid GMOs in Restaurants
A roundup of non-GMO items: farmer Phillip Geertson argues Roundup Ready alfalfa cost the U.S. seed industry its export markets after contamination showed up in Montana and Washington seed lots, and reports tie India’s rising farmer suicides to failed Bt cotton crops.
Chemical
New report links cancer-causing arsenic and fruit juice
Consumer Reports found 10 percent of apple and grape juice samples from five brands exceeded federal drinking-water standards for total arsenic, the inorganic form being a known carcinogen, and one in four topped the FDA's 5 ppb bottled-water lead limit. No federal limit covers juice.
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Food additives commonly used in foods - FDA
An FDA reference table of common food ingredient types, including preservatives, sweeteners and color additives, explaining what each does, which foods use them, and the names to look for on product labels.
GMO
Urgent: Throw These Cooking Oils in the Trash
A class-action lawsuit alleges ConAgra's Wesson canola, vegetable, corn and blended oils cannot be called "100% natural" because they contain genetically modified corn and soy. The piece notes that the natural label on processed food has no standard definition.
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Plastic Fantastic (not!)
A columnist describes throwing out plastic bowls, spatulas, chopping boards and an electric kettle for stainless steel and bamboo, after a study linked canned soup to higher BPA levels. She concedes plastics rank below smoking or obesity as a risk, but calls them avoidable.
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Eating canned food can get you toxic bisphenol A
People who ate a serving of canned soup daily for five days had urinary BPA of 22 micrograms per liter, against 1 to 2 in those who did not - a rise of more than 1,200 percent. BPA lines metal cans and has been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.
Biological
Turkey FUNdamentals: Leftovers
USDA food safety staff explain why a restaurant doggy bag left in a car overnight must be thrown out: bacteria double every 20 minutes, and reheating destroys the bacteria but not the toxins they leave behind. Refrigerate leftovers within two hours and eat them within three to four days.
GMO
The Surprising Truth About This Favorite Breakfast Food
A "100% Natural" label carries no restrictions and does not rule out pesticides, fumigants or genetically engineered ingredients, the piece argues, unlike USDA organic certification. Cornucopia Institute testing found high levels of GE ingredients in several cereals marketed as natural.
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Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Yes!
A rough year for turkey producers: studies found turkey carried two to three times the antibiotic-resistant staph of other meats, Pfizer kept its arsenic-containing Histostat for turkeys after dropping the chicken version, and Cargill recalled 36 million pounds over salmonella.
Biological
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning — Southeast Alaska, May–June 2011
Alaska's Section of Epidemiology investigated eight confirmed and 13 probable cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning in the state's southeast during May and June 2011. Commercially harvested shellfish, which are tested for the toxins, were safe; warnings covered other harvesting.
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