URGENT FOODS, PESTICIDES and
CHEMICAL REPORTS AND HOW THE FDA IS PROTECTING US!
March 13, 2001: Genetically
altered soy and corn continues to be found in Kellogg
Foods...
IS
THE GOVERNMENT PROTECTING US??
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Washington, D.C.
2/12/99--Consumers Union strongly criticized the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to
give consumers even the most basic information about
pesticides in foods in a consumer-right-to-know brochure
released by the agency.
"This brochure is a lost opportunity for the EPA and the
Clinton/Gore Administration to extend their commitment
to informing consumers about toxic hazards in their
environments to the most fundamental level-pesticide
residues in the food they feed their families," said
Jeannine Kenney, a policy analyst at Consumers
Union's Washington D.C. Office. "Instead of telling
consumers that pesticides are toxic poisons, that they
are found on many foods, and that some foods contain
multiple pesticides, this brochure fails to provide
consumers with even the most basic understanding of what
pesticides are and what risks they pose."
Chemical and food industry
organizations had urged EPA to remove references to the
harmful effects of pesticides and to omit a
recommendation that consumers who wish to avoid
pesticides in food can buy organically grown produce
from prior drafts of the brochure. The final draft of
the brochure removed references to the specific health
hazards of pesticides and omitted the recommendation
that consumers buy organic food.
In a Consumer study it was
found that 77% of 5-year olds would be exposed to unsafe
levels of pesticides by eating one serving of certain
vegetables:
See the report on
autism & it's connection to chemicals.
September 19, 1999
Pesticides Making Millions ill!!
Pesticides in schools!
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -'99/E-Wire/-- Children
exposed to soil around utility poles treated with
pentachlorophenol (penta), a wood preservative commonly
used in pole treatment, face a risk of cancer 220 times
higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's
acceptable level, according to an EPA preliminary review
obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request and being released today for the first time by
Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse
of Pesticides. The data means that two children born
each day are pre-destined to contracting cancer from
this exposure alone.
Even though the treated wood has been removed
from the market in most areas that used prior to use is
still in playgrounds nation wide and continues to poison
our children!
"The transition to High
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) won't occur by
government decree or intensified regulation," he said.
Check out what you can do in the interim
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Report on Plastics and our health - December 1999
Recycling glass, paper & plastic
is a beginning but not the only solution to the
environmental pollution and health problems that are
resulting from the pollution! Pollution comes in
several forms!! Those forms are body care products, home
care products, bath products and right down to washing
your car is a potential for polluting the ground water,
air and your body.
What are you doing to make those changes and change the
statistics that abound around us?
Taking charge of your life as
well the environment around you is a very important step
in life and a necessary one to insure a lifetime of
health! A start would be to replace chemical laden
prescriptions and OTC drugs with natural chemical-free
alternatives...
Recommendations are
Updated
06/15/2008
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