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Green News Report - April 14, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Solar Cookers, Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Renewable Energy, Utah Wilderness, Oil Prices, McDonald's, Tim Dechristopher, Bpa Plastic, Green News Report, Fda, Green, Green Living, Green News

In Today's Audio Report: Florida homes stink!; FDA under fire (again); McDonald's may reduce pesticides in fries; the cardboard box that could save the world; and Utah college student indicted for saving public lands from destruction.

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U.S. Food Safety No Longer Improving

New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food Safety, Us, Fda, US Food Safety, Politics News

After decades of steady progress, the safety of the nation's food supply is no longer improving. And in the case of salmonella -- the dangerous bacter...

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FDA Regulation Provides Another Smokescreen for Marlboro Man

Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, FDA Cigarettes, Cigarettes, Fda, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Marlboro Cigarettes, Politics News

The new FDA legislation would serve as a Marlboro Preservation Act. The tobacco industry will be footing the bill for the alleged regulation of its own products. The foxes will be guarding the henhouse.

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Aw, Nuts: The FDA Pistachio Scare Nightmare

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Health and Human Services, Salmonella, Fda, Pistachios-Salmonella, Pistachios, E. Coli, Diarrhea, Contamination, Sarah Palin, International Space Station, Usda, Pistachios-Recall, Bacteria, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Politics, Health, Comedy News

It seems that the FDA done did it again! Or didn't do it... what they're supposed be doing, that is, mainly regulate and prevent widespread contamination of our food supply from harmful microbes and bacteria.

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Setting Time Bombs in Our Chests: Our Unreliable FDA

Ian Millhiser | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Fda Approval, Riegel v. Medtronic, Fda, Justice Scalia, Medical Device Safety Act, Politics News

Lacking sufficient resources to monitor thousands of medical devices on their own, the FDA relies on the medical device industry itself to disclose potential problems in the devices it regulates.

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Pistachio Recall: Setton Pistachio Sends Out Information

Huffington Post | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Sunkist Pistachios, Salmonella and Pistachios, Pistachios Recall, Pistachio Recall, Salmonella, Fda, Sunkist Pistachio Recall, Setton Pistachio, Pistachio Food Poisoning, Pistachios, Sunkist Pistachios Recall, Terra Bella-California, Green News

Setton Pistachio sent out this press release Tuesday, announcing its recall of pistachio bags over Salmonella fears. Scroll down for the press release...

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Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Dea, Attorney General, Medical Marijuana, Science, Obama, Plan B, Drug, Barack Obama, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, Government, Morning After, Nasa, Schedule I, Chris Weigant, Fda, Space, Controlled Substance Act, Schedule, Prescription, Morning After Pill, Schedule II, Medical Use, Over the Counter, Food and Drug Administration, Drug Policy, Open for Questions, Politics News

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The Morning After Pill Conspiracy

Cristina Page | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Morning After Pill, Emergency Contraception, Plan B, Fda, David Hager, George W. Bush, Politics News

Monday, the US district court finally got the anti-contraception genie, and some of the bullying lawless politics of the Bush era, back in the bottle.

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E. Coli Season Is Coming: Check Your Burgers

ABC News | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/story?id=7080622&page=1 | Posted 04.14.2009 | Home

Read More: E Coli Season, Food Health, E Coli, Food Safety, Fda, Home News

Food safety officials are gearing up for E. coli season, the period each year when the potentially deadly bug starts to show up more often in ground b...

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Obama Announces FDA Chief Pick, Outlines Food Safety Measures

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Food Safety, Food and Drug Administration, Fda, Joshua Sharfstein, Barack Obama, Margaret Hamburg, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The nation's food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as...

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Goodbye to You, Yaz

Doug Bremner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Birth Control Pill, Contraception, Birth Control, Birth Control Pill Yaz, Retention of Potassium, Bayer, The Pill, Acne, Fda, Mood Swings, Yaz, Pms, Weight Loss, Pmdd, Living News

Yaz wasn't approved to treat PMDD and acne, and in any case, not all women have PMDD or untreated acne, even though the makers of Yaz probably wish that that was the case.

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Fixing Our Food Safety System

Rep. Rosa DeLauro | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rosa DeLauro, Food Safety Legislation, Food Safety, Food Safety Bill, Fda, Politics News

We have a responsibility to people to truly fix systemic problems in our food safety system, starting with a fundamental restructuring of the food safety bureaucracy at the FDA.

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The Big Risk of Insanely Small Nanoparticles in Our Food

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Packaging, Nanofood, Nanotechnology, Health, Friends of the Earth, Food Safety, Real Food, Food Additives, Processed Foods, Nanomaterials, Usda, Fda, Green News

For now, until the FDA and the USDA get their acts together, when it comes to food and our health, it seems that we, the people, are once more on our own.

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Sasha Eats Peanut Butter -- It Needs to Be Safe

Susie Hoeller | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Quality Assurance, President Obama, Humane Treatment of Animals, Holistic Food Policy, Fda, Peanut Product Recall, Sasha Obama, Obama Daughters, Green News

President Obama is correct to call for a review of the FDA: the agency needs more resources to prevent contaminated foods from poisoning consumers and to deter and punish wrong doers.

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Welcome to our ENRON-omy and the Year of the Probe

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, John Thain, Dow Jones, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Enron, Fda, Wall Street Journal, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Recall, Economy, Bailout Outrage, Business News

While we read about Blagojevich's hairbrush and the $1,400 trashcan purchased by Merrill Lynch's CEO, the Dow saw "its worst performance ever" posting its worst January in its 113 year history.

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Peanut Butter Processor Knowingly Endangers Consumers -- America Needs a Strong Food Safety System

Les Weisbrod | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Trial Lawyers, American Association for Justice, Food Safety, John Dingell, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Butter Recall, Green News

At least 12 times in 2007 and 2008, Peanut Corporation of America deliberately endangered our families by knowingly putting contaminated peanut products into the chain of commerce.

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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

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

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I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

I can't say that I was in the dark when I bought my honey-roasted peanut butter last week, but like so many people, I had the impression that someone was looking out for me.

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Darvon: FDA Panel Recommends Ban On The Painkiller

AP | Posted 03.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Darvon Ban, Fda, Darvon, Home News

WASHINGTON — Government medical advisers Friday recommended a ban on Darvon, a prescription medicine that's been used to treat pain for more tha...

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Parents! Mercury Contamination Found in High Fructose Corn Syrup

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Healthy Eating, Toxic Chemicals, Junk Food, Chlorine, Children, Melamine, Health, Nutrition, Hfcs, Mercury, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food, Neurotoxin, Fda, Barack Obama, Parents, Green News

A study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy detected mercury in nearly one-third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the present.

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One More Link in the Mercury-High Fructose Corn Syrup Chain: Autism

Paula Crossfield | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Cdc, Mercury, Food Safety, Thimerosal, Autism, Autism Vaccines, Fda, Mercury Poisoning, Robert F. Kennedy, Vaccines, Simsonwood, Health, Children's Health, High Fructose Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup Murcury, Green News

There has been a previous association made between diet and autistic functionality -- and specifically high fructose corn syrup been singled out as a cause for worsening the disorder.

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Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

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The BBQ is Over...

Hillary Newman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Genetically Modified Food, Vegetarian, Green Living, Salmon, Biotech Agriculture, Bacon, Vegan, GM Foods, Center for Food Safety, Food Matters, Dna, Eating Matters, Fda, Nutrition, Health, Antibiotics, Hormone Treated Meat, Green News

The FDA is also not required to label when food comes from genetically engineered animals. Without clear labeling, many may soon be feeding their families manipulated animals.

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Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Turning Us Into Mad Hatters?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Mercury, Epa, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Refiners, Mercury Poisoning, Fda, Mercury in Food, Hfcs, Health Policy, Food Safety, Jeremy Piven, Hfcs and Mercury, Green News

It turns out that many foods sweetened with high fructose corn syrup contain mercury. Worst of all, the FDA has known about this potential toxin and has continued serving it up since at least 2005.

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In the Dangerous Kitchen

Jeremy Haft | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Food, Toy Recalls, Salmonella, Fda, Medicine, Melamine, China, World News

America is in dire peril when it comes to our food and drug supply. We're connected in one long chain with China, yet neither of us can effectively police quality.

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