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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the results of a two year investigation into seafood labeling that found 85 per cent of the seafood it tested was properly labeled.The work included seven hundred DNA samples collected from wholesalers in 14 states, prior to restaurant...
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New research suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trouble getting pregnant. The work is not nearly enough to prove a link, but it adds to "the biological plausibility" that...
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University of Michigan and University of Hawaii researchers claim to have solved a long-standing scientific mystery: how does mercury get into open-water fish? The researchers maintain they have an answer, and that their research indicates that mercury levels in Pacific fish will rise in the coming ...
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Posted by on in Beauty and Fashion
Posted in EarthTalk on May 29, 2011 By:Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss http://www.emagazine.com/earth-talk/the-safe-cosmetics-act Dear EarthTalk: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law?—Megan Wilson, Austin, TXThe Safe Cosmetics Act wa...
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By: Leslie Lyon and Marilyn PattersonPosted: February 24, 2010, from the March 2010 issue of Skin Inc. Magazine. http://www.skininc.com/skinscience/ingredients/85206532.html?page=4 The Five Degrees to Organic is an unofficial scale created by Marilyn Patterson, and as it approaches the fifth deg...
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