Tag: food safety
Shutdown deal buries federal food safety rules amid rising outbreaks
A funding bill to avert a government shutdown includes industry backed provisions that halt key FDA protections even as foodborne illnesses surge across the United States.
House Republicans move to block EPA action on toxic PFAS in...
A provision in the latest GOP spending bill would halt enforcement of an EPA risk assessment warning that sewage sludge fertilizer contaminates farmland with cancer-linked forever chemicals.
Plastic is poisoning the soil that grows our food
New research finds agricultural land holds 23 times more microplastics than oceans, with toxic particles infiltrating crops, ecosystems, and human bodies while global regulation lags behind.
Food dyes linked to attention and activity problems in children
Food dyes in products such as breakfast cereals, juice and soft drinks, frozen dairy desserts, candies, and icings were linked to adverse neurobehavioral outcomes in children including inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and restlessness.
Gene editing mishaps highlight need for FDA oversight
The FDA plans to require pre-market safety assessments for gene-edited food animals, as they do for new animal drugs.
‘Industry front group’ claims to promote public health while fighting chemical...
"Policy makers, international bodies, and the medical and research communities, should approach ILSI's work with caution, viewing it as industry funded and influenced."
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Trump removal calls grow after Iran threat as Democrats debate 25th Amendment and impeachment...
Calls to remove President Donald Trump intensified after he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” but constitutional requirements and political alignment within the executive branch make immediate removal highly unlikely.
How Iran won the Iran War
It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.
The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.
Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.
Trump budget expands domestic surveillance powers alongside record $1.5 trillion military request
New budget documents reveal expanded FBI authority to monitor domestic extremism while the White House seeks historic increases in Pentagon spending and significant cuts to social programs.
Exposing discredited ‘alpha male’ dominance myths driving the worst toxic MAGA Trump masculinity
The crackbrained, suicidal Make America Grim Again carnival impedes the next alpha male wannabee from crawling from the swampy ooze, bellowing toxic masculinity and gaining public office.