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PATH: BS | Health & Medicine | Toxic Substances Fox News Takes Heat For Hate Speech Posted by Pile (11888 views) [E-Mail link] [Pundits] MSNBC takes the right wing media to task for their campaign against recently-murdered Kansas doctor George Tiller. Keith Olbermann suggests Fox News now be "quarantined." READ MORE | 1 comment since 2009-07-16 21:57:25 | Comment on this Article Court Documents Confirm Dumping Of Toxic Waste In Pirate Waters Posted by Pile (11160 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] Documents have emerged which detail for the first time the potentially lethal nature of toxic waste dumped by British-based oil traders in one of west Africa's poorest countries. More than 30,000 people from Ivory Coast claim they were affected by the poisonous cocktail and are currently bringing Britain's biggest-ever group lawsuit against the company, Trafigura. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Monsanto Wins Case To Stop Hormone-Free Milk Labels Posted by Pile (11878 views) [E-Mail link] A federal court in Ohio has ruled that dairies cannot legally label their milk "hormone free" "rBST-free" or otherwise clearly tell consumers that they aren't pumping up their cows with synthetic hormones. It's a blow to truth-in-labeling advocates, a blow to consumers and a blow to organic farmers. It's a win for Monsanto, the agrichemical giant that prompted the lawsuit, and a win for Eli Lilly, which bought Monsanto's synthetic recombinant bovine growth hormones (known as rBST or rBGH) business a couple months ago. The use of these hormones is banned throughout most other first world nations. The labeling issue is moot in the 27-nation European Union, along with Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, since they don't allow the use of synthetic hormones in the first place. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article No More Tears, But Perhaps A Little Cancer Posted by Pile (21178 views) [E-Mail link] [Faulty Products] More than half the baby shampoo, lotion and other infant care products analyzed by a health advocacy group were found to contain trace amounts of two chemicals that are believed to cause cancer. Some of the biggest names on the market, including Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo and Baby Magic lotion, tested positive for 1,4-dioxane or formaldehyde, or both, the nonprofit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reported. READ MORE 17 Year Old Discovers Problems With Splenda Sweetener Posted by Pile (11827 views) [E-Mail link] [Environment] Leave it to a 17-year-old foreign student to run some tests on the popular sweetener sucralose that is Splenda, and find out that the substance does not seem to break down in normal wastewater treatment and might be around in our water supply for a long time, in possibly high enough concentrations to cause harm to people and animals.. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Antibiotic-Free Chicken Injected With Drugs Before Hatched Posted by Pile (13069 views) [E-Mail link] [Biotech] Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat processor and the second largest chicken producer in the United States, has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics before they hatch, but labels them as raised without antibiotics anyway. In response, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) told Tyson to stop using the antibiotic-free label. The company has sued over its right to keep using it. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article FDA Raises "Safe" Melamine Level In Baby Formula Posted by Pile (12640 views) [E-Mail link] Less than two months after federal food regulators said they were unable to set a safety threshold for the industrial chemical melamine in baby formula, they announced a standard that allows for higher levels than those found in U.S.-made batches of the product. Food and Drug Administration officials on Friday set a threshold of 1 part per million of melamine in formula, provided a related chemical isn't present. They insisted the formulas are safe. Presumably based on the number of complaints they received from newborn babies? READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Radioactive Waste Ending Up In Indian/Chinese Consumer Products Posted by Pile (11172 views) [E-Mail link] French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn't an isolated case. Improper disposal of industrial equipment and medical scanners containing radioactive materials is letting nuclear waste trickle into scrap smelters, contaminating consumer goods, threatening the $140 billion trade in recycled metal and spurring the United Nations to call for increased screening. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Supreme Court May Give Drug Companies Immunity Posted by Pile (10632 views) [E-Mail link] The Supreme Court may rule that pharmaceutical companies cannot be sued for dangerous or even deadly side effects from their drugs if those side effects arise from an FDA-approved use. Under a legal argument known as "pre-emption," the FDA's approval of a drug absolves companies of any responsibility if that drug later turns out to be dangerous, even if information was concealed from the FDA during the approval process. While courts have rejected this argument for decades, the winds appear to be shifting. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article Japan Halts Pesticide-Laden Chinese Frozen Beans Posted by Pile (10347 views) [E-Mail link] [Outsourcing] Japan yesterday ordered retailers to pull frozen beans from China off the shelves after a woman fell ill eating a product which had 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide, officials said. Japan's health ministry instructed retailers and importers nationwide to suspend sales of frozen green beans from a Chinese supplier. READ MORE | No comments | Comment on this Article 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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