Federal Insecticide

Chemical Marketplace: The Fine Print on a Common Pesticide, Writ Large

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Roundup, Crops, 2, Agriculture, Lawns, Herbicides, Chemicals, 4-D, Glyphosate, Fifra, Chemical Marketplace, Natural Resources Defense Council, Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid, And Rodenticide Act, Health, Dow Chemical, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Gardens, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...

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Recommended Continental Breakfast: Eggs Over Easy, Hold the Dioxin

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Belgium, Pigs, European Union, United States, Pcbs, Dioxin, Chemicals, China, Netherlands, Environmental Working Group, Britain, Toxins, Chemical Marketplace, Slovakia, And Rodenticide Act, Industry, Health, Contamination, Korea, Food, Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Green News
Bill Chameides

The FDA doesn't recommend avoiding any particular food to limit dioxin exposure other than its generally recommended diet. Of course there's the option of going vegan, the diet found to have the lowest exposure to dioxins.

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The Chemical Marketplace: Triclosan

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterways, Antibacterial, Chlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Dioxin, Pollution, Chemicals, Antifunal, And Rodenticide Act, Triclosan, Halocarbon, Health, Halogenated Hydrocarbon, Consumers, Antiviral, Toxic Substances Control Act, Chemical Pollution, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Ciba, Green News
Bill Chameides

I was reading my toothpaste tube the other day, and noticed something I hadn't expected in the list of "active ingredients:" the antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal chemical triclosan.

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