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Congressional report reveals manufacturers ‘knowingly’ sold toxin-tainted baby food

Vilsack, AKA Mr Monsanto is in the lead for the top position on the FDA. Findings:Top baby foods are tainted with dangerous levels of inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury. Industry self-regulation fails to protect consumers as manufacturers set their own dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels. New Report Finds Toxic Heavy …

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OCA: Trump: Importing Dangerous Medicines and Food and Keeping Consumers in the Dark

“The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, in a New York Times article published on Sunday May 11, 2019. The article, “Americans Need Generic Drugs, But Can They Trust Them?” exposes the widespread unsafe conditions in many Indian and Chinese labs and plants that manufacture generic drugs for the U.S. market (generics amount to 90 …

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Chemicals on our food: When “safe” may not really be safe

The EPA is so confident that traces of pesticides in food are safe that the agency has granted multiple chemical company requests for increases in the allowed tolerances, effectively providing a legal basis for higher levels of pesticide residues to be allowed in American food. Chemicals on our food: When “safe” may not really be …

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At Last! FDA Bans Use of 7 Synthetic Food Additives

At Last! FDA Bans Use of 7 Synthetic Food Additives The move follows a petition brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Center for Food Safety (CFS), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and other environmental and consumer groups. Erik Olson of NRDC called the decision “a win for consumers,” …

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The FDA Has Approved GMO Golden Rice to Enter the U.S. Food Supply

“Renowned Indian scientist Dr. Tusher Chakraborty has another view of this supposedly miracle crop, however. While speaking to the UNB at a workshop on Food Security and Modern Biotechnology on October 10, Dr. Chakraborty said that Golden Rice “may carry traces of retinoic acid derivatives which may cause teratogenicity – that means birth defects in …

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Monsanto’s Mess-Four Signs Consumers Are Winning

Keep up the pressure!   https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/monsanto%E2%80%99s-mess%E2%80%94four-signs-consumers-are-winning Monsanto’s Mess—Four Signs Consumers Are Winning When the colours turn grey and the lights all fade To black again We’re in over our heads But somehow we make it back again – lyrics from “Beautiful Mess” Next month will mark one year since Congress obliterated Vermont’s GMO labeling law …

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