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Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)

May 12, 2011

It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel’s new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explor…

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Designer Drug Deals: Pills + Tablets Make Healthy Gems

May 8, 2011

For most people, resorting to selling drugs would be a low point in life, not a way to cope with a difficult diagnosis and pay off medical bills. Susan Braig, however, is selling designer drugs for designer prices in order to dig herself out of a significant medical debt. And believe it or not, her [...]

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Ask Pablo: Can Food In A BPA-Lined Can Still Be Considered Organic?

March 28, 2011

Image credit: Steven Depolo, used under Creative Commons license.

Dear Pablo: Can a USDA certified organic can of vegetables still be considered organic if it is in a BPA-lined can?

There are really two questions here: whether or not the USDA consid…

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Europe Proposes Seven New Chemical Substances of Very High Concern

February 27, 2011

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This week Europe proposed to add seven more chemicals to the list of substances of very high concern (SVHC). The addition of a chemical to the SVHC list enables European regulators to ban the chemical from the market unless it is…

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TCE Contamination Lingers & Little Is Done About It – Canadian Class Action Suit Seeks to Change That

February 22, 2011

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Some problems just won’t go away. That’s what a lot of companies probably think about people who gripe about issues the companies would rather not deal with—as well as what the people griping think about the actual pr…

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Could Flesh Wounds Lead to Cancer?

February 19, 2011

Can some wounds really lead to cancer?

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Why 41% of Americans will be Diagnosed with Cancer at Some Time in their Lives and What You Can do About it. Latest Report from the President’s Cancer Panel

February 17, 2011

A report by the President’s Cancer Panel, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now was published in April 2010 This latest annual report, for 2008–2009, was written by Suzanne H….

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Cancer Alley: Big Industry & Bigger Illness Along Mississippi River

February 8, 2011

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There’s a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge…

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FDA Underestimating Gulf Residents’ Carcinogen Exposure From Eating Seafood: NRDC

December 9, 2010

photo: Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University/Creative Commons

Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says that the FDA is grossly underestimating the exposure to carcinogens in sea…

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Two New Cancer Studies Point to Seaweed and Sunlight For Prevention

November 28, 2010

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Recent University of South Carolina (USC) studies have outlined two important tools in cancer prevention. The studies, which were carried out at USC’s Arnold School of Health and the South Carolina Cancer Center, found that seawe…

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