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FDA Denies Petitions to Ban Phthlates in Food Packaging

FDA Denies Petitions to Ban Phthlates in Food Packaging

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has chosen not to ban chemicals from food packaging that have been linked to serious health impacts including breast cancer, diabetes, asthma and brain development in children.  The FDA’s decision, announced Thursday, came in response to two petitions sent by environmental and public health groups in 2016 asking […]

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    E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce

    E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce

    If you’re hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow, be sure to leave romaine lettuce off the menu! The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are warning everyone to avoid the classic salad green until investigators can pinpoint the exact source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 32 […]

    FDA Approves First Waste-Gas-Reduction Drug for Cattle

    FDA Approves First Waste-Gas-Reduction Drug for Cattle

    By Dan Nosowitz When we think of dangerous gases emitted by cattle, the logical first thought is of methane, let loose into the air by burps and farts to contribute to climate change. But cattle are complex creatures in their diversity of noxious fumes, and the FDA just approved the first drug to treat a […]

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    Under pressure from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and other environmental and public health groups, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned seven substances used in artificial flavors that have been linked to cancer in animals. “Chemicals that could cause cancer should never have been allowed in our food in the first place, especially […]

    FDA Finds Weed Killer in Most Corn, Soy at ‘Non-Violative Levels’

    FDA Finds Weed Killer in Most Corn, Soy at ‘Non-Violative Levels’

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released on Monday the final results of a “special assignment” that examined the residue levels of glyphosate and a competing herbicide glufosinate in corn, soy, eggs and milk during the fiscal year 2016. Their labs detected glyphosate in 63 percent of the corn samples and 67 percent of […]

    Glyphosate Detected in Granola and Crackers, FDA Emails Show

    Glyphosate Detected in Granola and Crackers, FDA Emails Show

    Scientists with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) have found traces of a ubiquitous and controversial weedkiller in granola, crackers and other everyday foods, according to internal documents obtained by The Guardian through a freedom of information request. The FDA has tested food samples for glyphosate for “two years, but has not yet […]