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- 01/14/09 - Stevia Makes Sweet Progress with FDA Approval
- 01/14/09 - There's Fluoride in the Water
- 01/10/09 - FDA Will Continue to Study BPA; Has No Plans to Amend Position That Plastics Chemical Is Safe
- 01/09/09 - FDA Will Continue to Study BPA; Has No Plans to Amend Position That Plastics Chemical Is Safe
- 01/04/09 - Poll Reveals Americans Want GMO Labels, Strong Organic Standards & Stricter Food Safety Practices
- 01/04/09 - New Restrictions on Hog Farms Start Today in North Carolina
- 12/30/08 - Obama's Choice of Vilsack: Agribusiness as Usual at USDA?
- 12/30/08 - Honey Laundering: A Sticky Trail of Intrigue and Crime
- 12/27/08 - Force-Feeding Koreans USD Mad Cow Beef
- 12/24/08 - Scientist: GM Food Safety Testing Is "Woefully Inadequate"
- 12/21/08 - Monsanto Tried to Block Austrian Government Funded Research Showing GE Corn Causes Infertility
- 12/19/08 - Raid on Family's Home and Organic Food Co-Op Challenged
- 12/19/08 - Fears Raised Over New vCJD Wave in UK
- 12/18/08 - The Scoop - December 2008 Organic Center Newsletter
- 12/17/08 - Ag Secretary Announced: Tom Vilsack
- 12/16/08 - A Busy, Controversial Year for Food Labeling
- 12/14/08 - World Health Organization Sets Outlandish "Safe" Level for Melamine Consumption
- 12/14/08 - Elimination of Junk Food Ads Directed at Children Could Reduce Obesity in U.S. by 20 Percent
- 12/13/08 - The Cover-Up of Hidden MSG Food Additives in Brand Name Processed Food
- 12/10/08 - New Tests Show Hazards of Spreading Mad Cow-Like Diseases by Feeding Animal Fats to Animals
- 12/10/08 - 'Second Wave' of Mad Cow Disease Could Hit Britain, Scientists Warn
- 12/10/08 - Everything You Need to Know About the Latest Threat to Your Baby
- 12/09/08 - Chemical Used on Crops Could Make You Fat
- 12/09/08 - Diabetes Epidemic Linked to Toxic Chemicals in Food & Environment
- 12/08/08 - Melamine May Be Just the Tip of the Iceberg
- 12/05/08 - Food First Newsletter #123: Florida Farmworkers Victory & Other Key Stories of the Week
- 12/04/08 - Study Links Fast-Food Diets to Alzheimer's
- 12/03/08 - Melamine Found Contaminating Soy Meal Fed to Organic Chickens
- 12/03/08 - 90 Percent of U.S. Infant Formula May Be Contaminated with Melamine; FDA Abruptly Declares Chemical Safe for Babies
- 11/30/08 - What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food
- 11/29/08 - Changing Turkeys' Diets Prevents Foodborne Ills
- 11/29/08 - Study Ties Chicken Trucks to Bacteria
- 11/29/08 - US Beef Back on Shelves of South Korean Supermarkets
- 11/28/08 - FDA Hid Names of Melamine Contaminated Infant Formula Products from the Public
- 11/26/08 - Harnessing the Promise of Poo?
- 11/25/08 - A Seafood Snob Ponders the Future of Fish
- 11/24/08 - Down on the (Organic) Fish Farm
- 11/21/08 - GM Maize Disturbs Immune System of Young and Old Mice
- 11/20/08 - Food Allergies Among Children in the US on the Rise
- 11/20/08 - Pesticide Buffer Zones Expanded to Protect Salmon
- 11/20/08 - Toxic Farm Pesticides Threaten Pacific Salmon
- 11/18/08 - OCA Testimony to the NOSB on National Organic Standards (Nov. 17, 2008)
- 11/17/08 - The Future of Food in an Obama Administration
- 11/17/08 - Non-Organic Poultry Consumers Beware: China, America and Melamine
- 11/15/08 - Attack of the Tiny Nano Particles - Be Slightly Afraid
- 11/13/08 - New Study Links Genetically Engineered Corn to Infertility
- 11/11/08 - Genetically-Engineered Food: Potential Threat to Fertility
- 11/11/08 - Fast Food Originates With Corn, Study Says
- 11/10/08 - Tyson Foods Injects Chickens with Antibiotics Before They Hatch to Claim 'Raised without Antibiotics'
- 11/10/08 - Study Establishes Link Between Diet and Stress Induced Cancer
- 11/10/08 - Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies
- 11/09/08 - Toward a Healthy America: Prevention as Part of the Stimulus
- 11/06/08 - Why Small Plastic Particles May Pose a Big Problem in the Oceans
- 11/04/08 - Studies Tie Bacteria in Beef to Ethanol Byproduct
- 11/03/08 - Infant Formula Makers and Canned Food Producers Called On To Remove BPA
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Recent Food Safety Science Articles
- 12/21/08 - Monsanto Tried to Block Austrian Government Funded Research Showing GE Corn Causes Infertility
- 12/04/08 - Study Links Fast-Food Diets to Alzheimer's
- 11/29/08 - Changing Turkeys' Diets Prevents Foodborne Ills
- 11/29/08 - Study Ties Chicken Trucks to Bacteria
- 11/13/08 - New Study Links Genetically Engineered Corn to Infertility
- 11/10/08 - Study Establishes Link Between Diet and Stress Induced Cancer
- 11/04/08 - Studies Tie Bacteria in Beef to Ethanol Byproduct
- 10/07/08 - Phthalates Linked to Abnormal Genitalia in Baby Boys
- 10/02/08 - While Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Flourish, a House Subcommittee Buries its Head
- 09/08/08 - Group's Tests of Bisphenol A Conflict With FDA's Findings That It's Harmless
News Archives
Aspartame
- Facts about Splenda
- Aspartame Consumer Safety Network
- Aspartame? Say No! migraines, memory loss, seizures, obesity, infertility 92 FDA listed symptoms including death!
- Aspartame Victims Support Group Website
- Información del Aspartame en Espanol
- Facts About Splenda (pdf 62kb)
Fluoridation
- Adverse Health Effects Linked To Fluoride with references
- Preventative Dental Health Association
- International Society for Fluoride Research
- America - Overdosed on Fluoride
- STOP Fluoridation USA
Food Safety Links
"Dirty Dozen" Reference Card
This handy wallet-sized reference tells you which foods to avoid or buy organic when you're shopping.
Environmental Media Services
dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues
Avian Flu Awareness
More than just bird flu
NOHA
Nutrition for Optimal Health Association-Articles by Subject
Health Science Updates
(Nonprofit group of concerned scientists, environmentalists and helath care practitioners)
Factory Farming
- Humane Farming Association
- The Meatrix
Flash Video on factory farming - Sewage Sludge Homepage
- Grace Public Fund Factory Farming Action Alerts
- Grace Factory Farm Project aims to stop factory farming, from the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE).
Antibiotics
- The Food Commision Campaigning for safer, healthier food in the UK
- Facts and Data on Antibiotics & Factory Farming
- Humane Society
of the US
Antibiotics and Farm Animals
Seafood
- Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy
Fish & Marine Conservation - Coastal
Alliance for
Aquaculture Reform - Institute For Fisheries Resources
- Greenpeace Oceans Campaign
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Consumer Action Guide to Sustainable Seafood
- Pocket Seafood Guide to choose fish that are not overharvested (PDF)
Hormones
- Friends of the Earth page on beef hormone dispute between U.S. and Europe
- USEUOfficial archive of documents about the US-European Union Dispute on EU Hormone Ban
Pesticides
- Global Recognition
Campaign for
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Children's Pesticide
Exposure via Food Products
US Government Fact Sheet - Pesticide Action
Network
all about sustainable agriculture. - Pesticide
Action Network Updates Service
PANUPS is a free international news service covering the latest pesticide research, regulatory and other policy decisions, and pesticide- and agriculture-related activism. - Environmental Working Group information on pesticides and other toxic chemicals in your food.
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