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• Letter: What’s That in the Food?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  To the Editor:.
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• FDA finds bits of steel, rubber in Genzyme drugs

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have found tiny particles of trash in drugs made by Genzyme, the second time this year the biotechnology company has been cited for contamination issues....
  1 day ago

• Colorado mall fire leads to asbestos concerns

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The Estes Park Urban Renewal Authority (EPURA) of Colorado has warned that a fire at Park Theatre Mall on October 19 may have released asbestos into the air. When the mall had been built and remodeled, buildings were not required to have sprinkler systems, so asbestos was used generously as fireproofing material. It ...
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• Baxter Flu Vaccine Contaminated, TV Investigative Report

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 132
  Baxter Pharmaceutical, makers of H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines has admitted that they were involved with contaminating vaccines, a Polish television station has reported.  In May 2009, we reported: Baxter sent vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus to 18 countries before someone caught the mistake ...
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• E. Coli Outbreak Traced to Company That Halted Testing of Ground Beef

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  A meat display at Costco, which requires independent E. coli testing by its grinding facility.
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• Don’t eat the fish

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  Make sure you know what you’re putting in your mouth. (I’m talking fish, perverts.) You may like lemon juice or tartar sauce on your fish. What you may not realize is that another condiment is added to every serving of fish you eat: Mercury. This year, the U.S. Geological Survey released a report showing ...
  2 days ago

• Timbisha Shoshone to Obama: Adopt UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  
  Nuclear and Indigenous Items of Interest — Authority: 108
  Timbisha Shoshone to Obama: Adopt UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples November 5, 2009 The Honorable Barack Obama The President of the United States of America The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500-0004 Dear Mr. President, Greetings. Upon this historical event, we wish to ...
  2 days ago

• Teens don’t care much about hygiene while cooking

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, November 12 (ANI): Teenagers are more likely to cross-contaminate raw foods when preparing frozen foods, a study has found.Researchers from Kansas State University sought to determine actual food handling behaviour of both adults and adolescents and what could be done to enhance the safety of frozen ...
  2 days ago

• Teens aren’t careful about hygiene while cooking

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 12 (IANS) Teens are less likely to wash their hands while cooking and are more likely to cross-contaminate raw food than adults, says a new study.“While half of the adults we observed washed their hands after touching raw chicken, none of the adolescents did,” said Casey Jacob, study co-author and ...
  2 days ago

• U.S. Plans Raw Warm-Water Oyster Ban

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  At issue is how far the federal government should go to save the lives of 15 people each year who die from eating contaminated raw oysters.
  2 days ago

• Hey, Where Did All The Eggo Waffles Go? [Breakfast]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 779
  Kimberlys life just isnt the same. Something is missing. That something: Eggo waffles. She wants to know where they have gone, and whether they will ever return to her. I was wondering if yall knew what the hold up at the eggo plant is. I ran across the attached signs while at the grocery store the other night, ...
  2 days ago

• Bad Fish Oil Capsules and How To Avoid Them

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 130
  Any time a product becomes really popular, the market will be flooded with poor quality ones that offer little in the way of benefits and with fish oil capsules they can even contain dangerous toxins. Once you know what to look for based on proven research, the choice becomes much easier. Bad fish oil capsules will ...
  3 days ago

• EPA study reveals widespread contamination of fish in U.S. lakes and reservoirs

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 129
  More evidence of what our reliance on fossil fuels has done and continues to do: WASHINGTON – A new EPA study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 U.S. states. For the first time, EPA is able to estimate the percentage of lakes and reservoirs ...
  3 days ago

• University of Wyoming cited for asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has cited the University of Wyoming for scattering asbestos-containing materials during a demolition project at the Bureau of Mines building. Violations include failing to conduct an asbestos inspection, failing to provide notification to the proper authorities, ...
  4 days ago

• Report Estimates Climate Change Adaptation Costs, Impacts to Utilities

  
  Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News — Authority: 483
  http://www.nacwa.org/images/stories/public/2009-10-28ccreport.pdf The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Association of the Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) released a report icon-pdf today detailing the impacts climate change can have on wastewater and drinking water utilities and ...
  4 days ago

• New York report blasts gas industry as GarCo weighs FRAC Act resolution

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 675
  Even as the Garfield County commissioners today take up debate on a resolution regarding the FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, an environmental researcher in New York released a damning report on the natural gas industry in that state. Drilling pads on the Roan Plateau The FRAC ...
  5 days ago

• Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 549
  Your body is probably home to a chemical called bisphenol A, or BPA. It’s a synthetic estrogen that United States factories now use in everything from plastics to epoxies — to the tune of six pounds per American per year. That’s a lot of estrogen.More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and ...
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• The coming natural gas boom is not all its fracced up to be

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 794
  Filed under: Energy Please pardon my poor punning, and let me explain: "Fraccing" (rhymes with "cracking") is the oil and natural gas industrys an informal contraction for the technology called hydraulic fracturing , in which water (and in some cases, a chemical mixture) is pumped deep underground to fracture ...
  6 days ago

• Westminster move to force GM food crops into Scotland

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 145
  Moves afoot at Westminster to strip the Scottish Government of its powers over labelling food and content are motivated by the intention to force more genetically modified (GM) food crops into being grown here.A million pound publicity campaign is being mounted to persuade the public that GM foods are safe to eat.In ...
  6 days ago

• FDA issues warning on tainted treats

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 484
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Pig Ears and Beef Hooves pet treats manufactured by Pet Carousel because the products may be contaminated with Salmonella. The products were distributed nationwide in both bulk and retail packaging for sale in pet food and retail chain stores. ...
  1 week ago

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