EWG's 2016 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce puts strawberries atop its Dirty Dozen list for the first time, displacing apples after five years. The group advises buying organic for listed items and offers a Clean Fifteen list of conventional produce least likely to carry residues.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
Tell Kroger & Campbell's: It's time to can BPA!
A Breast Cancer Fund report found BPA in 67% of nearly 200 food cans sampled, including every Campbell's can and 62% of Kroger's. The group asks readers to press both companies to replace the chemical, which it links to cancer, infertility and diabetes.
Chemical
Zinc oxide in vitamins, foods, sunscreens: Is it safe?
Zinc oxide nanoparticles turn up in supplements, processed foods and sunscreens. In an Indian study, mice given them lost body weight, turned passive and survived less; higher doses caused severe DNA damage in blood and bone marrow and inflamed the liver, lungs and kidneys.
Chemical
Fluoride at high doses kills embryonic stem cells
Chinese researchers reported in PLoS One that 1 mM sodium fluoride disturbed gene expression in human embryonic stem cells, and that 2 mM or more cut viability and proliferation by promoting apoptosis. They suggest it might interfere with early human embryogenesis.
Chemical
Silica used in foods, cosmetics and drugs harm cells, DNA
Chinese researchers built a method to gauge nanoparticle toxicity and found both sphere- and rod-shaped mesoporous silica nanoparticles were cytotoxic and genotoxic, inducing oxidative stress and chromosomal aberrations. Rod-shaped particles did more damage than spheres.
Chemical
Calgary Fluoride Study Fatally Flawed; Key Data Omitted
FAN says a new Calgary study claiming that ending fluoridation caused a spike in cavities omitted data from the city's oral health surveys showing decay was already rising before fluoridation ended in May 2011 and continued at the same rate afterward.
Chemical
Pregnant women shouldn't eat too much fish
Drawing on 26,184 pregnant women and their children in 11 countries, a JAMA Pediatrics study found children of mothers who ate three or more servings of fish a week were more likely to be obese at ages two, four and six and grew faster early on. The effect was stronger in girls than boys.
Chemical
Aluminum exposure raises dementia risk
A meta-analysis in Neuroscience Letters pooled eight cohort and case-control studies covering 10,567 people and found those chronically exposed to aluminum were 70% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. Aluminum turns up in cheese, baked goods, baking powder and drinking water.
Chemical
Fluoridation: Worsening the Lead Crisis in Flint, and Beyond
A Fluoride Action Network special report argues that fluoridation may be intensifying America's lead crisis by making water more corrosive, easing lead's uptake into blood and worsening its effects on the brain, and says the problem extends well beyond Flint.
Chemical
“Glyphosate’s impact on the neurological system: Autism, IBS & Alzheimer’s”
Jeffrey Smith invites readers to a free February 16, 2016 webinar with Dr. Zach Bush on gut problems such as leaky gut, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome, noting glyphosate use has risen almost 15-fold since Roundup Ready crops arrived in 1996.
Chemical
New Video: fluoride discussed on the Dr. Oz show
Erin Brockovich spent a 13-minute segment on the Dr. Oz show on February 1 opposing water fluoridation and discussing fluoride in foods, beverages and toothpaste. FAN welcomes the exposure while disputing Oz's claim that dental fluorosis is fluoride's only adverse effect.
Chemical
BPA free plastic may not be safer
A UCLA study in Endocrinology reports that bisphenol S, a common substitute for BPA, altered zebrafish embryo physiology within 25 hours at trace levels like those in polluted river water, speeding embryonic development and disrupting the reproductive system.
Chemical
Two Major Victories This Week - newsletter from fluoridealert.org
Fluoride Action Network reports two more communities have ended fluoridation: Parry Sound, Ontario, after more than six months of debate, and New Zealand's Whakatane District, covering 37,000 people. Councillors cited uncertainty about the health risks of the practice.
Chemical
Advocates Back NTP Fluoride Review, Citing Risk To Developing Brain
The Fluoride Action Network says it gave the National Toxicology Program material arguing that high-dose animal studies are relevant to neurotoxic risk in fluoridated communities, and that the epidemiological evidence tying fluoride to childhood osteosarcoma is stronger than currently recognized.
Biotech
Tips for Healthy Living, Brought to You by Monsanto
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter reprinting an Acres U.S.A. interview with Vandana Shiva on seed sovereignty and organic farming, and flagging Monsanto's sponsorship of WebMD, where the group says advertorials run alongside health research.
Chemical
Telemundo Airs Fluoridation TV Series
Telemundo's Atlanta affiliate aired a three-part news report on water fluoridation, including an interview with a CDC statistician about the lack of fluorosis data for Hispanics. Organizer Dan Stockin of The Lillie Center describes the outreach behind it.
GMO
Who Will Sell Out Vermont's GMO Labeling Law? - newsletter 010716 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter criticizes Elanco for advertising farm-animal drugs to consumers who will never buy them, and warns that a closed-door meeting between USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and labeling advocates could produce a compromise preempting Vermont's GMO labeling law.
Chemical
FAN's 2015 Fundraiser Totals
The Fluoride Action Network's campaign closed at $132,238 from 530 donors, short of its $200,000 and 1,500-donor goals, so the group will approach foundations. Susan Nichols won the guessing contest, within $200 of the final total.
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