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Many varieties of vinyl gloves also contain phthalates, which leak into food and the human body.

Would You Like Some Phthalates With Your Sandwich?

By Brian Bienkowski

Don't feel like cooking tonight? A new study may change your mind.

In a study of more than 10,000 people in the U.S., researchers found that people who frequently eat out at restaurants, cafeterias and fast food joints have phthalate levels about 35 percent higher than people who mostly eat food bought at a grocery store and prepared at home.

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Politics
Lamar Smith, chairman of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on July 24, 2014. NASA / Aubrey Gemignani

Science Committee Hearing Targets Cancer Scientists, Betrays Public Interest

By Carey Gillam

Score another point for corporate power over protection of the public.

U.S. Rep Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, & Technology, has slated a full committee hearing for Tuesday with an agenda aimed squarely at attacking some of the world's top cancer scientists.

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GMO
Tissue slides from long-dead lab mice could play a pivotal role in hearings against Monsanto. Jan Philip Oeven / Flickr

34 Years Later, Monsanto's Mysterious Mouse Tumor Study Resurfaces

By Carey Gillam

Call it the case of the mysterious mouse tumor.

It's been 34 years since Monsanto Co. presented U.S. regulators with a seemingly routine study analyzing the effects the company's best-selling herbicide might have on rodents. Now, that study is once again under the microscope, emerging as a potentially pivotal piece of evidence in litigation brought by hundreds of people who claim Monsanto's weed killer gave them cancer.

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