The Fluoride Action Network invites supporters to a free December 12 teleconference reviewing the year in fluoride, offers library access to weekend donors, and launches a meme contest after its corroded-injection-room image reached over 4.2 million people on Facebook.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
Fluoridation and Human Rights
Writing on Human Rights Day, the Fluoride Action Network argues that no government should add chemicals such as fluoride to drinking water to treat people rather than the water, calling it a violation of the right to informed consent that most European countries respect.
Chemical
"We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any more!"
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reports that Port Angeles, Washington voted against fluoridation, and reprints letters between former Crescent City councillor Donna Westfall and Peel councillor John Sprovieri, who say no US or Canadian agency will answer their safety questions.
GMO
Why we ARE winning the GMO battle!
A fundraising message from Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, arguing that despite approvals of GMO salmon, potatoes and apples the anti-GMO campaign is closer than ever to winning, and inviting readers to watch a short video and donate.
GMO
Answering your questions on GMOs
A fundraising letter from EWG president Ken Cook, pointing readers to a Q&A video answering their questions about GMO labeling and H.R. 1599, which the group calls the DARK Act.
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Protect your gut from Roundup!
A promotion for a November 23, 2015 conference call in which the Institute for Responsible Technology interviews Dr. Zach Bush on laboratory research into glyphosate and the tight junctions between intestinal cells, and a supplement called RESTORE. Listeners get a 20 percent discount code.
Biotech
FDA okays GM salmon fish for U.S. market
The FDA approved AquaBounty Technologies' petition to sell genetically modified salmon in the US market, calling the fish safe to eat. The salmon make growth hormone year-round and reach harvest size in about half the usual three years. No labelling is required.
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Fluoridation Chemical Company Fined $2 Billion
The Fluoride Action Network reports that EPA and the Justice Department fined Mosaic Fertilizer $2 billion on October 1 for hazardous waste violations. FAN notes Mosaic sells fluorosilicic acid, which EPA consent decrees call a hazardous waste, to public drinking water systems.
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Report reveals Feds didn't protect communities of color from fluoridation: FAN calls for 5-step alternative
The Fluoride Action Network handed the Environmental Justice Interagency Working Group a 100-page report saying officials have long known Black Americans have more dental fluorosis; FOIA records it obtained put 2005 rates at 58% versus 32% of Whites.
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Bad for bees, bad for our waters - enewsletter from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety's report "Water Hazard" documents widespread contamination of US waters by neonicotinoid insecticides, notes that up to 95% of seed coatings ends up in the environment rather than the crop, and calls on EPA to suspend the pesticides' registrations.
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Report finds most fast food chains serve meat raised on drugs
A scorecard from consumer, health and environmental groups gave 20 of the 25 largest US fast food chains an F on antibiotics in their meat supply; Panera, Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts passed. Some 109 organisations wrote to the chains' chief executives.
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Video of Denver Fluoridation Forum and Petition to FDA
The Fluoride Action Network posts video of the Denver fluoridation forum, where the water board heard experts on both sides before a scheduled August 26, 2015 policy vote, and backs a June 2015 petition asking FDA to regulate fluoridation additives as drugs.
Chemical
Zinc oxide is toxic
Researchers tested zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles at 50 to 500 ppm and found both cytotoxic to human red blood cells and genotoxic to lymphocytes, with damage rising by concentration. Zinc oxide proved more genotoxic at higher levels.
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If I Was Made Sick by Cilantro - - I'd Matter - news email 080415 from CHEJ
CHEJ contrasts the swift federal ban on cilantro, tied to hundreds of illnesses, with the response to a girl found to have pollution-related chemicals in her blood, whose parents were told only to keep her indoors. The group asks readers to fund its work with affected communities.
Biological
The Future of GMO Activism after H.R. 1599 - Jeffrey Smith video
A video commentary in which Jeffrey Smith lays out strategy for non-GMO activism after the House passed H.R. 1599, which the Institute for Responsible Technology calls the DARK Act, together with a donation appeal for the group.
Chemical
Watch Historic Denver Fluoridation Forum
Denver's Water Board will host the city's first public information session on fluoridation, with three experts on each side and no public comment taken. The board's decision affects more than 1.5 million metro residents, and the forum will stream live.
Chemical
Trans fat linked to elevated breast cancer risk
A 2007 American Journal of Epidemiology study of 19,934 French women followed for seven years found those in the highest quintile of circulating trans-monounsaturated fatty acids were 75% more likely to develop breast cancer; cis-monounsaturated fats showed no such link.
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Trans fat boosts diabetes mellitus risk - study
In the Cardiovascular Health Study, adults in the top quartile of circulating trans fats t-16:1n9 and t-18:1 were 59 and 91 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Dietary trans fat intake was also positively associated, but not significantly after adjustment.
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