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Yes, They Can Under pressure from Big Canned Tuna, FDA lax in mercury regulation		04 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 12:59 PM on 04 Sep 2008 Under strong pressure from Big Canned Tuna, the Food and Drug Administration is crazily lax in regulating mercury in tuna. Among many examples: In 2000, a draft advisory to pregnant women listed canned tuna as a product highly contaminated with mercury; after FDA officials met with the three largest tuna companies, the final advisory left tuna off the list. When the FDA's fish mercu ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, mercury, news, regulation, toxics (all these topics)

BPA: A-OK? Common chemical in food containers not a health threat, says FDA		18 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 7:15 AM on 18 Aug 2008 Food containers made with common chemical bisphenol A pose no health threat, according to a draft assessment by the Food and Drug Administration. More than 100 government- and university-funded studies have linked BPA to cancer, diabetes, behavioral disorders, and reproductive problems, and an April report from the National Toxicology Program declared there was "some concern" a ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, news, toxics (all these topics)

Rotten tomatoes Latest health scare exposes a frayed food-safety net	Guest author	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Meredith Niles, coordinator of the Cool Foods campaign at the Center for Food Safety. Salmonella-infected tomatoes have made headlines over the course of the last week, but there's nothing new about the problem that tainted tomatoes reveal.This outbreak has put more than 25 people in the hospital and sickened hundreds, but it is just the latest in a long line of sickness and recalls. Salmonella in tomatoes, spinach, and lettuce, eColi in ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, Health (all these topics)

Everything's Just Fin Research funded by seafood industry concludes that moms should eat fish		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 2:40 PM on 05 Oct 2007 A group of scientists affiliated with the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) announced conclusions yesterday that new moms and moms-to-be should eat at least 12 ounces of seafood per week to encourage wee ones' brain development. Federal agencies, which advise moms to consume no more than 12 ounces of seafood per week to reduce babies' exposure to ...
Topics: Department of Health and Human Services, food, Food and Drug Administration, green living, health, mercury, news, parenting, scientific research (all these topics)

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