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Antibiotic-Free Meat: Is the FDA Finally Catching Up to the American Consumer?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Antibiotics, Bpa, Fda Approval, Organic Food, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

The beauty of our system is that when government lags behind, we as American consumers still have the power to direct the marketplace by the products we buy -- or don't buy.

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How Eden Foods Pioneered BPA-free Cans

Nena Baker | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Bpa, Bpa-Free, Canned Foods, Non-Gmo Project, Eden Foods, Bisphenol A, Dangers of Bpa, Green News
Nena Baker

With a growing awareness about BPA -- a commonly used compound in cans and bottles -- and its links to a range of human diseases, Eden Foods recently began labeling its cans "BPA-free."

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Self-Care = Earth Care

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Depression, Green, Fat, Earth, Psychology, Obesity, Diet, Medications, Planet, Overeating, Organic, Wellness, Self-Care, Organic Food, Health, Environment, Plastic, Food, Bisphenol A, Therapy, Pollution, Antidepressants, Green News
Avital Binshtock

What's good for our bodies is good for the planet -- and what's bad for the earth is bad for our health.

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About BPA: Do You Feel Lucky?

Elaine Shannon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Endocrine Disruptor, Bpa, Bisphenol A, Cancer, Bpa Plastic, Plastic Bottles, Dangers of Bpa, Green News
Elaine Shannon

BPA, a synthetic estrogen as well as a plastics hardener, disrupts the endocrine system and causes a growing list of chronic, often permanent disorders in lab animals.

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California Takes On Plastic Bottles Made With BPA

Grist.org | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Neurological Disorders, Infertility, Bisphenol A, Bottles, Food-Storage Containers, Plastic Bottles, Obesity, Sippy Cups, Sports Bottles, Polycarbonate Plastic, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bpa, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Green News

It's the stuff of a good Hollywood movie-a potentially toxic chemical lurking in the bodies of most unwitting Americans; a decade of mounting but scut...

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Kids Safe Chemical Act: The Chemical Industry Takes on the Mommy Lobby

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Toxic Chemicals, Babies, Kids Safe Chemical Act, Environmental Working Group, Robyn O'Brien, Allergykids, Green News
Robyn O'Brien

The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act would require manufacturers to first prove a chemical is actually safe before it's allowed into a consumer product.

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The BPA Diaries: An Introduction

John DeCock | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Exposure to Chemicals, Water, Bpa Baby Bottles, Clean Water, Plastic Water Bottles, Nalgene, Toxic Toys, Water Bottles, Bisphenol A, Green News
John DeCock

BPA is a symbol of a much broader problem--our need to evaluate chemicals before they reach the marketplace, and to develop safer alternatives to chemicals we already know to be toxic.

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If a Pregnant Woman Told You BPA Was Safe, Would You Believe Her?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, California, Canned Foods, Toxic Free Babies, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa, Food Safety, Marketing, Fda, Health, Living News
Christopher Gavigan

The end is near, BPA industry, best put your money into R&D for a safer alternative instead of poorly thought out marketing plans

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Thank You for Buying Our Toxic Plastic

Elaine Shannon | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Bpa, Thank You for Smoking, Bpa Baby Bottles, Kathleen Roberts, Bpa Plastic, Green News
Elaine Shannon

The embattled food and chemical industry, trying to head off a nationwide ban of the toxic plastic chemical BPA in cans and bottles have decided to target women.

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FDA: Get BPA Out ASAP

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Del Monte, Alcoa, Inc. And Grocery Manufacturers Association, Environmental Working Group, The American Chemistry Council, Bisphenol A, Coca-Cola, Endocrine Disrputor, Fda, BPA Joint Trade Association, Bpa, Food and Drug Administration, Takepart, The North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Crown, Ewg, Green News
Sarah Newman

You, like millions of other Americans, probably regularly use and consume products made with Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical that is a $6 billion global industry.

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Green News Report - June 4, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Carbon Capture and Storage, Green News, Congressional Democrats, Philadelphia, Green News Report, Coal, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama moves mountains -- unfortunately; Coal state Democrats heart coal; Chemical industry hearts BPA; PLUS: Big Bellies now...

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What Tobacco And BPA Have In Common

enviroblog.org | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, BPA Lobby, Lobbyists, Toxins, Green News

Flash forward to last week. Embattled food and chemical industry reps, trying to head off a nationwide ban of the toxic plastic chemical bisphenol A (...

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The Chemical Industry Desperately Wants to Keep Their Products in Your Shopping Cart

Sarah Janssen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bisphenol-A, Simplesteps, Shopping, Fda, Children, Babybottles, Sippycups, Bpa, Food, Infantformula, Moms, Green News
Sarah Janssen

While the industry has characterized the campaign to eliminate BPA as "lies," they have resorted to the failed tactics of the tobacco industry by putting profits before protecting the public's health.

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Green News Report - May 28, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Bpa, Stephen Chu, Carbon Emissions, Sonia Sotomayor, Green News, Climate Change, Green News Report, Fda, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: How 'green' is Sotomayor?; Bush and the baby bottles; PLUS: White is the new green! For roofs, that is .... All that and mor...

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Chicago Becomes First Major City To Ban BPA Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bpa, Chicago City Council, Chicago Bpa Ban, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Chicago City Council Bans, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Chicago on Wednesday became the first U.S. city to adopt a ban on the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA....

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Chicago Moves Toward Ban On BPA In Baby Bottles

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Manny Flores, Bpa, Chicago Bpa Ban, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bisphenol A, Ed Burke, Chicago News

The city that blazed a consumer protection trail by banning phosphates would become the first in the nation to ban baby bottles and cups containing th...

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Country Unifying Against BPA In Products

treehugger.com | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic, Bpa, Toxins, Green News

In a matter a few years at most, babies living in the USA will likely be off the BPA-laced formula. Washington Post documents two important developmen...

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Companies Voluntarily Banish BPA From Bottles

sciam.com | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Plastic Bottles, Bpa, Bisphenol, Personal Health, Health, Living News

As politicos bandy about the issue of banning bisphenol A (BPA), the hard-plastic additive that's been linked to a host of health problems, several co...

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Chicago Mulls Crackdown On Products Containing BPA

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 03.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Chicago Bpa Ban, Chicago Bpa Law, Bpa Ban, Health, Chicago News

It was the first City Council committee meeting in memory that included presentations about heat-labile molecular bonds and synthetic estrogen. But b...

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More Evidence That BPA is Toxic and Industry Tactics Exposed

Sarah Janssen | Posted 03.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Bpa, FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, FDA BPA, Breast Cancer, Fda, Chemicals, Dangers of Bpa, FDA Ban BPA, Toxic Chemicals, Baby Bottles, Women's Health, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Bpa Plastic, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Children's Health, Living News
Sarah Janssen

New research suggests that BPA may interfere with metabolism and lead to obesity, heart disease and diabetes in humans.

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What's Worse than Chemo? A Common Toxin that Renders It Less Effective

Frances Beinecke | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Estrogen, Baby Bottles, Breast Cancer, Health, Chemotherapy, Plastic Bottles, Bpa, Endocrine Disruptor, Breast Cancer Treatment, Bispheno-A, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Going through the insult of chemotherapy is bad enough. But discovering that it could be undermined by a hazard the FDA refuses to regulate makes it worse.

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Common Plastic Found to Leak Chemicals

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Research, Biology, Packaging, Regulation, Science, Green Living, Fda, Toxic Chemicals, Health, Contamination, Green News, Environment, Plastic, Bisphenol A, Food and Drug Administration, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Two highly reactive chemicals in a common plastic can leak from disposable lab equipment and skew the outcome of life science research.

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BPA: Can This Chemical Hurt Your Family?

Sloan Barnett | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Bisphenol A, Green Living, Green Goes With Everything, Fda, Green News
Sloan Barnett

Just last April, Canada banned the use of BPA in baby bottles. So why is our government still allowing BPA to be used?

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From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Bpa, Estrogen, Health, Bpa Baby Bottles, Plastic Water Bottles, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Month, Phthalates, Living News
Frances Beinecke

I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer.

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FDA: Another Government Regulatory Disaster -- II of III

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Toxins, Antidepressants, Fda, Vioxx, Drug Companies, Green News, Bpa, Health, Pharmacueticals, Environmental Health, Children's Health, Drug, Children's Environmental Health, Politics News
Deirdre Imus

Besides a complete overhaul, a few prosecutions might be just the medicine the FDA needs.

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