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Thursday, January 31, 2008

The New Food Inspector: You
Ina Fernandez admits it. She's a little obsessive-compulsive about grocery shopping. How else to explain that in a single week the 40-year-old Woodbridge resident visits as many as seven grocery stores -- Trader Joe's, Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Costco, Safeway, Giant and a local Latin market -- to fin... Continued...

Sunday, January 27, 2008

National Green Jobs Conference Set for Pittsburgh
National Green Jobs Conference Set for Pittsburgh On March 13-14, 2008, a conference unlike any other will take place at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference will launch a nationwide dialogue about moving ou... Continued...

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Tyson Adjusting Advertising After Complaints
Tyson Foods Inc. said in federal district court that it is revamping the advertising of its antibiotic-free chicken products, after competitors had alleged false and misleading advertising by the company. In court filings, the company brushed off competitors' allegations and said it had already i... Continued...

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Eat chicken, invite ‘arsenic’
It is not just bird flu that has made chicken eating dangerous to your health. Read on to discover a secret that the poultry industry has hidden for a long time. In the dictionary ‘arsenic’ is synonymous with ‘poison’. It is considered the king of poisons. It is a metallic element used in rat poi... Continued...

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Chemicals, products, and regulatory failure: A prescription for greener chemistry and better public health
Chances are, a parent or patient has asked you recently about the health risks from lead paint on a toy train, or from flame retardants in sofa cushions. How do you respond? Passing it off as a Chinese toy problem is too simple, and wrong. ?The real problem,? says Donald Kennedy, former commissi... Continued...

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Research finds link between hogs, MRSA infections
GUELPH, Ont. A Canadian professor calls his research team?s recent discovery of a link between bacteria known as MRSA and hogs in North America a red flag to health-care institutions. Scott Weese, a veterinarian in the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Ont., who specializes... Continued...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

FDA Opens "Pandora's Box" by Approving Food from Clones for Sale
Washington, DC - Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemned the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) irresponsible determination that milk and meat from cloned animals are safe for sale to the public. In addition, the FDA is requiring no tracking system for clones or labeling of products pro... Continued...

Monday, December 17, 2007

Poultry Workers at Increased Risk of Carrying Antibiotic-Resistant E. coli
Poultry workers in the United States are 32 times more likely to carry E. coli bacteria resistant to the commonly used antibiotic, gentamicin, than others outside the poultry industry, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While ... Continued...