Tag: cancer-causing
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Save Your Health – Skip the Bamboo Coffee Cup
German consumer organization finds high levels of melamine and formaldehyde migration from re-useable bamboo-based cups, condemns misleading labeling advertising them as recyclable and eco-friendly. Looking for environmental friendly options as an alternative to paper coffee cups? Buyers are generally given the impression that they are buying natural product when purchasing and reusing a bamboo mug.…
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Pesticides: the Big Picture
Pesticides are used all around us, in homes and gardens, schools, parks and agricultural fields. All too often, these chemicals are allowed onto the market before their impacts are fully understood — and harms to our health and the environment are discovered years later. The science is increasingly clear that even low levels of exposure…
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Toxic Chemicals Contaminate Foods Marketed to Children
The FDA refused to test our foods for contamination. EPA refuses to reduce the amount of toxins permitted on our food crops. Independent studies show that our food is filled with toxic chemicals. The weedkiller, produced by Bayer-Monsanto, was detected in all 21 oat-based cereal and snack products sampled in a new round of testing…
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Second Jury Finds Monsanto Glyphosate Causes Cancer
A second U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer. The case was only the second of some 11,200 Roundup lawsuits to go to trial in the United States. The jury from the first trial eight months ago issued a $289 million verdict. Johnson vs Monsanto. The previous jury found…
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Breakfast with a Dose of Roundup?
EWG’s new report, Breakfast With a Dose of Roundup?, reveals alarming levels of glyphosate in popular cereals, granola bars and instant oatmeals. Glyphosate is the cancer-causing key ingredient in Monsanto’s signature herbicide, Roundup. Recently, a San Francisco court ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages after ruling glyphosate played a key role in causing…
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Carcinogen Pollutes Mountain Home AFB Tap Water Supplies
Drinking water supplies for 14 million Americans are contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial solvent made notorious by the book and film “A Civil Action,” according to a new EWG analysis of tests from public utilities nationwide. Drinking TCE-contaminated (trichloroethylene) water has been linked to birth defects; damage to the brain and the nervous, reproductive and…
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Monsanto Faces Man Dying of Cancer in Roundup Trial
Doctors didn’t think he’d live long enough to testify in court that exposure to Monsanto Co.’s Roundup weed killer caused his deadly cancer. But the 46-year-old is now first in line to go to trial against the agrochemical giant among thousands of people across the U.S. who blame its herbicide for their disease.As groundskeeper for…
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VACCINE SAFETY Part 1: Responsibility for Vaccine Safety lies SQUARELY On the Shoulders of US Department of Health and Human Services
Unlike nearly every other company in America, pharmaceutical companies have almost no liability for injuries caused by their vaccine products. By granting immunity from actual or potential liability from injuries caused by vaccines, Congress eliminated the market forces that are generally relied upon to assure the safety of all other products. As the 1986 Act…
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Citizens concerns causes city officials to stop the use of cancer-causing Round Up
“It might mean more dandelions, but the bottom line is a dandelion won’t kill my daughter, poison will,” a mom said. This is the point. We don’t need the poison in our parks. Have you contacted your Parks and Rec or City to ask what they use for weed killer and what can be done…