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Category Archives: health issues
Gulf Seafood Safety Still a Concern
Via the Gulf Restoration Network comes this post at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You? Gina Solomon writes, Today, NOAA reopened 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing. I took a look at the data on which NOAA [...]
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Alabama: Room for Improvement in Health Rankings
If you pay any attention to the media this should not be news, but it bears repeating nonetheless. Alabama is parked near the bottom (i.e. worst part) of numerous rankings of health measures, with our neighbors to the west (Mississippi and Louisiana) keeping us from last place. Alabama… …is tied for second fattest state in [...]
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Improving Nutrition for Kids
On August 25 the Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act; the House will take up the bill after summer recess, and is under pressure to pass the measure before the current Child Nutrition Act expires September 30. Although the proposed legislation does not do everything advocates – including Michelle Obama – had desired, it [...]
Banning Antibiotics in Livestock – Submit Your Comment Through August 28
Culinate reports that the FDA is attempting to ban several uses of antibiotics in livestock (though it may already be too late to keep antibiotics useful in the long term). They have a draft guidance which is open to public comment through August 28. Antibiotics are commonly used in industrial agriculture to promote growth and [...]
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Seafood Testing Could Last for Decades
I’m not a reader of USA Today, but today this headline caught my eye: Seafood testing from Gulf oil disaster could last decades. Oil is hard to get rid of; it can stay in the environment for an extremely long time, and because all parts of the food chain will be affected, the potential cumulative [...]
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New Alarm Bells About Chemicals And Cancer
At the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof summarizes a report released this week by the President’s Cancer Panel (currently made up of two physicians appointed by President George W. Bush), which “calls on America to rethink the way we confront cancer, including much more rigorous regulation of chemicals.” Kristof writes: “We wanted to let people [...]
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Lead Test: Positive
We had some very bad news this spring: the soil in our vegetable garden tested positive for lead. Everyone I tell is shocked and horrified; how could this happen? But my response was it’s really not that surprising. The two most common sources of lead contamination are lead paint and leaded gasoline. We live in [...]
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Packaged Salad Can Contain High Levels of Bacteria
Civil Eats reports that in the March 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, “tests of packaged leafy greens found bacteria that are common indicators of poor sanitation and fecal contamination, in some cases, at rather high levels.” Organic greens fared no better than conventionally grown. Recommendations are (if you are going to buy packaged salad) that [...]
Food in Schools
As the parent of a child who will be entering kindergarten this coming fall, I’m in a position to be newly conscious of the quality of food in schools. Here are several items of interest: At Chews Wise, Sam Fromartz points to the blog of former reporter who spent a week in Washington, D.C. schools [...]
A Good Overview of the BPA Problem