Victor Marchione weighs tap, bottled and filtered water, noting reports that bottled spring water is often no better than tap, and that tap water is EPA-regulated and tested several times a day, while questions remain over fluoride and chlorine.
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Food Safety
Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.
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Chemical
High Arsenic Found in Some Brands of Apple Juice
The Dr. Oz Show reported testing that found Nestle/Gerber apple juice with up to 36 parts per billion of arsenic, above the EPA's 10 ppb drinking-water limit. The FDA called releasing the results irresponsible and misleading, noting the figures covered total arsenic, organic and inorganic.
Chemical
National Hispanic Civil Rights Organization Opposes Fluoridation
The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights group in the US, adopted a resolution opposing water fluoridation at its July 2011 convention, demanding to know why health agencies are more protective of the policy than of public health.
GMO
GMOs News from Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith's roundup: agronomist Michael McNeill reports Roundup-resistant weeds and more infertility and early abortion in livestock fed GM crops, Monsanto plans to sell GM sweet corn unlabeled, and Dow has filed a multi-herbicide-tolerant GM soybean for approval.
GMO
10 Reasons to Avoid GMOs
Jeffrey Smith's list opens with the American Academy of Environmental Medicine's call for doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets, citing animal studies of organ damage and infertility, then argues GMO contamination is permanent because pollen and seed spread.
Chemical
Foods that have too much brain-damaging aluminum salt
Studies linking aluminum to brain harm are gathered here: raised blood aluminum tied to dementia, worse symbol-digit coding scores among people who drank contaminated water, and occupational exposure linked to poor memory and depression. Aluminum in food ranges up to 27,000 mg per kilogram.
Biological
Why is this "Unsafe" Food Banned When It's 35,000 Times SAFER Than Others? (Comment)
Dr. Mercola argues that federal data make raw milk far safer than its reputation: an average of 42 illnesses a year attributed to it between 1999 and 2010, against an estimated 48 million foodborne illnesses annually from all foods. He objects to FDA enforcement against raw milk sellers.
Biological
C. diff battled at the molecular level
University of Texas researchers reported in Nature Medicine that C. difficile toxins must cleave themselves, using a built-in cysteine protease triggered by the molecule InsP6, to slip inside intestinal cells. Host cells fight back by nitrosylating that protease.
Biological
USDA outlines food safety measures to help students prevent foodborne illness when preparing after school snacks without adult supervision (PR)
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service offers food safety tips for children fixing their own after-school snacks: keep books, bags and sports gear off counters and tables, wash hands, especially after handling the pet, and use clean utensils.
Chemical
Another Victory & More Action! from Fluoride Action Network (PR)
Spring Hill, Tennessee's council voted unanimously to stop fluoridating its water, following Philomath, Oregon. The newsletter also describes three pending lawsuits, including a Washington suit arguing the fluoride chemicals meet the definition of prescription drugs.
Biological
E. coli, salmonella may lurk in unwashable places in produce (PR)
Purdue researchers found E. coli O157:H7 in mung bean sprout tissue and Salmonella in peanut seedlings after the seeds were contaminated before planting, with pathogens in every major tissue. That suggests sanitizing the outside of produce may not remove them.
Biological
Is Your Ice Safe?
FDA regulates packaged ice as a food when it crosses state lines, requiring clean equipment, safe water and sanitary storage and transport. Handle it like food: use tongs or a scoop, store it in clean food-safe containers, and keep drink ice separate from ice chilling raw food.
Chemical
The Daily Activity Every Middle Aged Woman Should Beware of
The Fluoride Action Network, writing for Mercola, cites a 2006 National Research Council report calling fluoride an endocrine disruptor affecting thyroid, parathyroid, pineal, adrenal, pancreas and pituitary. European doctors once prescribed 2 to 3 mg to damp overactive thyroids.
Chemical
Why You Need to Avoid These 'Healthy' Fruits and Nuts
The Fluoride Action Network traces Dow's fumigant ProFume, 99.8 percent sulfuryl fluoride, from its 1959 registration against termites to EPA approval for food use in 2004. Dow sought to fumigate California raisins and walnuts as methyl bromide was phased out under the Montreal Protocol.
GMO
'Healthy' Foods You Should Never, Ever Eat (comment)
Mercola introduces a video in which Jeffrey Smith contrasts corporate-funded and independent research on GM foods, arguing that Monsanto's safety studies lean on inappropriate control groups and the wrong statistical and detection methods.
Chemical
The Healthy Drink that May Destroy Your Sleep
Mercola describes the pineal gland's role in making melatonin and argues that suppressing it puts people at risk for conditions including insomnia, hormone imbalance and Alzheimer's. He points to sodium fluoride in drinking water as a source of pineal calcification.
GMO
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Hungary, where GMO seeds are banned, ploughed under almost 1,000 acres of maize grown from genetically modified seed that reached farmers unknowingly; an official said pollen had not spread. Mercola ties this to US fields where Roundup-resistant superweeds are spreading.
Chemical
Fluoride Awareness Week – Enough is Enough - Fluoride Must Be Removed from all US Drinking Water Supplies
The New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation backs Fluoride Awareness Week, arguing that fluoride does not reduce tooth decay, wastes tax money and harms health. It cites claims that over 40% of American 12-15 year olds show visible signs of overexposure.
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