"Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children"
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Concern Resurfaces for Drinking Water and Food Contaminant
In one of many last-minute actions, the Bush administration delayed a decision on a drinking water standard for the contaminant perchlorate (used in rocket fuel, explosives, fireworks, and many other industrial products, and also occurs naturally), but issued a temporary advisory recommendation. This has immediate implications for at least 31 large US utilities, and perhaps hundreds more.
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EPA Would Suppress Info on Toxic Gases From Feedlots at Industry Urging
Large feedlots would no longer have to report toxic emissions under a rule proposed Dec. 21, 2007, by EPA.
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Senate Passes Farm Bill With Softened Secrecy Language
The Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill Dec. 14, 2007, that softened a provision imposing draconian penalties for publication of information from a federal database for tracking food animals.
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NOAA Tries to Consolidate Fish Information For Consumers
Consumers looking for information on which fish may be better to eat, considering factors such as sustainability, health, or source identification, have a range of potential sources.
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Judge Forces USDA to Disclose Fields of Roundup Ready Alfalfa
A judge's decision has cracked open the black box of at least one genetically engineered crop: alfalfa.
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FED Report: Worrisome Overfishing Continues
More fish in US federal marine waters have become overfished, according to NOAA's annual assessment for 2006, released June 22, 2007
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Mexican Rice Shipments Cause Stir Over U.S. Genetic Engineering
Greenpeace Mexico revealed what the federal Health Secretariat knew since October: that 47 of 51 samples of US rice import shipments tested positive for contamination.
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Rice at the Center of Genetic Engineering Maelstrom
March went out like a lion for adversaries in the arena of food and pharmaceutical crop engineering.
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Scramble Is on To Cope With Honeybee Decimation
During the past two years, and especially since last fall, strong hints of far greater than normal die-offs (of honeybees) have been appearing all over the country, in at least 24 states (map of affected states).
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