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FEMA Food Kits May Contain Tainted Peanut Butter
Food kits recently distributed as part of a disaster relief effort in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain peanut butter contaminated with salmonella.
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Food may contain environmental estrogens
A discovery that two commonly used food additives are estrogenic has led scientists to suspect that other ingredients may be capable of altering hormones.
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Marijuana: The Myths, the Mayhem and the Market Value
Our budget deficit is not getting any smaller - legalizing marijuana could create a new source of revenue to catapult our country to economic recovery.
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The FDA Takes On Misleading Food Labels
The FDA is stepping up to make it illegal for companies to use misleading language on food packages to trick consumers into thinking products are healthy.
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New Law Bans Toxics in Children's Toys, But Not In Time For Holiday Shopping
Congress has seldom met a chemical it was eager to regulate. But this summer, both the House and the Senate voted to ban the use of some plastic-softening...
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4 Ways Barack Obama Can Change the Way Our Country Eats
Barack Obama is 6′2″ and is reported to weigh about 190 pounds. That equals a body mass index of 24.4, which puts him in the ideal body-composition range.
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House Passes FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill
The House today approved a bill that would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco products.
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Ten Things You Should Know About Alzheimer's Disease
Get the facts about Alzheimer's disease, a condition that affects millions of American seniors and their families.
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'Bad Syrup' Kills Nigerian Babies
Nigeria's food and drug agency says that 25 children aged between three months and four years have died after taking a contaminated teething syrup.
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Melamine Tainted Cookies Found on NY Store Shelves
Last week, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) discovered melamine-contaminated cookies on store shelves. The discovery...
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Breaking The Chain: Nonprofit Works To Save Guatemalan Children
"I stopped trading in little girls last May when I sold an 11-year-old to a Brazilian businessman. He hurt her very bad, very bad."
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HR 875 was introduced in the wake of last year's peanut salmonella scare. Does the bill unnecessarily go after the little guy, though? Aaron Horwitz reports.
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Read this and weep ...RFK, Jr. Deadly Immunity - published in 2005!!!
Deadly Immunity Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. (reprinted below but actual link to Rolling Stones article publis...
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Case Finally Closed on "Downers" Loophole
Written by Wayne Pacelle It’s been a long fight, and today, we closed another chapter on it. Since the mid-1990s, The HSUS has been working hard to stop as a matter of public policy the abuse of...
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The Quick Hit Primer for California Medical Marijuana Law*
In 1996, California voters passed landmark legislation allowing marijuana to be used for medical purposes. Since then, additional resolutions and court precedents have been cultivating the medical...
