The piece alleges biotech firms bought and pressured officials to clear GM crops, citing payments in Indonesia, a doctored report in India and a threat in Mexico, and argues the FDA waved the crops through as “generally recognized as safe” rather than as food additives.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
Study: PBDEs Affect Hormone Critical to Fetal Development
Among 270 pregnant women, those with higher blood levels of PBDE flame retardants more often showed subclinical hyperthyroidism, Berkeley researchers found. Co-author Brenda Eskenazi links the resulting higher T4 to miscarriage, premature birth and restricted growth in the womb.
GMO
GM Crop Use Makes Minor Pests a Major Problem
Mercola cites Nature reporting that mirid bugs, previously minor pests in northern China, have increased 12-fold since 1997 as Bt cotton spread past 4 million hectares, and are now the region's main pest. He also notes at least 10 Roundup-resistant weed species across 22 states.
Chemical
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals pose cancer risk
In Nature Reviews Endocrinology, Tufts researchers Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana Soto argue endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as BPA carry an additive cancer risk expected to show in adulthood. Rodent studies indicate greater harm when exposure falls during organ formation.
Food Safety
Lithium Batteries Pose Hazard to Young Children
A swallowed button battery lodged in a toddler's esophagus can burn through tissue within two hours, and the danger comes from the battery's current rather than leakage. A study led by Toby Litovitz counted 14 deaths since the 1970s, six of them in the last six years.
GMO
Warning: This Common Food Causes Devastating Offspring Defects in New Research Study
In an interview, Jeffrey Smith discusses unpublished Russian research reported to have found hamsters fed GM soy sterile by the third generation. Dr. Mercola adds his own view that animals offered a choice avoid GMO feed. The findings had not yet been published.
Chemical
Processed meat linked to heart disease, diabetes - What you need to know
A Harvard analysis in Circulation drew on 1,600 studies and found each daily 50-gram serving of processed meat such as bacon, sausage or deli meat was associated with 42 percent higher heart disease risk and 19 percent higher diabetes risk. Preservatives are the suspected cause.
Chemical
Peanut allergy in children on the rise?
Sicherer and colleagues at Mount Sinai surveyed 5,300 households and found reported peanut or tree nut allergy in children under 18 rose from 0.6% in 1997 to 2.1% in 2008. Cases were self-reported, so the survey may overestimate prevalence.
Chemical
Well-done meat does not raise breast cancer risk
Analyzing Nurses' Health Study data on cooking methods, Wu K and colleagues found meat-derived heterocyclic amines showed no association with postmenopausal breast cancer; high MeIQx, PhIP and DiMeIQx intakes tracked with slightly less ER-negative disease.
Chemical
Adding this Simple Addition to Meat Helps Decrease Damage When you Cook It
In a McCormick-funded study of 11 volunteers, burgers seasoned with an antioxidant-rich spice blend contained 71 percent less malondialdehyde, a lipid oxidation product, and left 49 percent less of it in the volunteers' urine than plain burgers did.
GMO
Action Alert – Protect Your Right to Know Which Foods Contain GMOs (PR)
The Institute for Responsible Technology asks readers to email Clinton, Vilsack and Sebelius before a Codex meeting, arguing US negotiators are pushing the position that GM foods are no different from conventional ones, which could undercut GMO and non-GMO labeling worldwide.
Biotech
USDA CONSUMER ALERT: Keeping Food Safe During An Emergency
USDA urges residents across the Southeast, Ohio Valley and New England to prepare for severe weather and flooding: keep appliance thermometers in the refrigerator and freezer, freeze containers of water and perishables in advance, and find out where to buy dry ice and block ice.
Biological
Start at the Store: 7 Ways to Prevent Foodborne Illness
An FDA food safety officer lists shopping habits that cut foodborne illness risk: judge the store's cleanliness, bag raw meat, poultry and seafood apart from other foods, skip bulging or dented cans and cracked jars, and avoid damaged or frost-covered frozen packages.
Chemical
More mercury found in restaurant served tuna/sushi- updated
Rutgers researchers DNA-tested sushi from 54 restaurants and 15 supermarkets and found mercury in every sample, at levels exceeding or approaching international limits. Bluefin akami and bigeye tuna carried significantly more mercury than fatty bluefin toro and yellowfin akami.
Chemical
News Flash! The HFCS Monopoly is Finally Cracking…
PepsiCo dropped high fructose corn syrup from Gatorade as a Princeton team reported that rats given HFCS gained more weight than rats given table sugar at the same calorie intake, along with more abdominal fat and higher triglycerides. The Corn Refiners Association still defends the sweetener.
Biological
CDC: E coli poisoning cases down in 2009
CDC figures for 2009 record 17,468 lab-confirmed foodborne infections, led by salmonella with 7,039 cases and campylobacter with 6,033; E coli accounted for 459. Infections from E coli O157, salmonella, listeria and campylobacter kept declining against the 1996-1998 baseline.
Biological
E coli kills young boy in Washington State
A 4-year-old boy died and three other children were hospitalized after E. coli O157:H7 spread at a licensed home day care in Clark County, Washington. Six of 26 others tested positive without symptoms, the center is closed, and officials have not identified the source.
Chemical
A Matter Of Degrees: Advancing Our Understanding of Acrylamide
Acrylamide, a neurotoxicant and probable carcinogen once known mainly from cigarette smoke and plastics, turned up in heat-processed starchy foods in 2002. New studies sharpen the picture of US exposure and ask whether differences in metabolism make it riskier for children and obese people.
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