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Growing Green Awards: Winners Produce Food that Nourishes People and the Planet

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Fair-Food-Agreement, Farm Workers, Organic Farming, Pesticides, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, School Lunches, Farmers, Fungicide, Pink Slime, Listeria, Sustainable Farming, Tomatoes, Growing Green Awards, Video, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Today, NRDC announces the winners of the 2012 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system.

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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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Are OJ Prices Really Spiking?

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Tainted Orange Juice, Fungicide, Orange Juice Price Spike, Video, Orange Juice Supply, Orange Juice Price, Orange Juice Fungicide, Orange Juice, Food News

Orange juice drinkers can relax. Fears of a spike in the price of the breakfast favorite appear overblown. Juice tainted with fungicide used in Brazi...

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Orange Juice Shows Us the Toxic Side of International Trade

Dr. Gary Ginsberg | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Fungicide, Birth Defects, Orange Juice, Brazil, Fda, Toxic Chemicals, Dr. Oz, Toxics, Chemicals, Dr. Oz Show, Green News
Dr. Gary Ginsberg

The U.S. has identified safer ways to limit mold growth on citrus in Florida and California. The U.S. should demand the same from our overseas suppliers.

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Coca-Cola Alerted FDA About Fungicide In Orange Juice

AP | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Video, Brazil Fungicide, Coca Cola Orange Juice, Orange Juice, Fungicide, Fda, Coca Cola Fungicide, FDA Fungicide, Orange Juice Fungicide, FDA Orange Juice, Food News

NEW YORK -- Coca-Cola Co. said Thursday it alerted the Food and Drug Administration after it discovered via testing its own and competitors' products ...

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FDA Cracks Down On Orange Juice Fungicide

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: FDA Orange Juice Fungicide, Fungicide Testing, Fungicide, Carbendazim, Video, Fda, Orange Juice Fungicide, Orange Juice, Food News

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up testing for a fungicide that has been found in low levels in orange juice. F...

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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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Oh That Chemical Feeling

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Organophosphates, Tsca, Insecticides, Regulation, Policy, Chemicals, Toxins, Politics, Health, Bpa, Lisa Jackson, Toxic Substances Control Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Fifra, Fungicide, Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act; Bisphenol-A, Green News
Bill Chameides

Congress is (finally) looking into the persistent and growing problem of persistent and bioaccumulating pollutants. Last week a Senate subcommittee he...

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