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- Toxic Sludge is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
- CarboPhobia The Scary Truth About America's Low-Carb Craze by Michael Greger, M.D.
- Food Politics by Marion Nestle
- Protecting Public Health and the Environment by Carolyn Raffensperger
- Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- The Slow Poisoning of America by John and Michelle Erb
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Food Safety Science Articles
- 12/07/11 - New Study Shows That Rice May Be Contaminated With Arsenic
- 07/07/11 - It's Not All White: The Cocktail of Up to 20 Chemicals in a Glass of Milk
- 07/05/11 - Autism Study Shows Surprises
- 04/28/11 - Study Ranks Food Pathogens from Factory Farms by Cost to Society
- 03/28/11 - Study: Organic Chicken Carries Significantly Lower Salmonella Risk
- 03/23/11 - Organic Poultry Far Less Prone to Salmonella than Conventional, Study Finds
- 02/08/11 - Junk Food Diet Hits a Child's IQ, Reveals Major UK Study
- 11/15/10 - Exposure to BPA Means Low Number of Sperm
- 08/03/10 - Chemicals in Meat May be Linked to Bladder Cancer
- 06/29/10 - Nitrates in Water and Food may Increase Thyroid Cancer Risks for Women
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Food Safety Headlines
- 02/04/12 - Jeff Green Talks about Toxic Fluoride Sources in Food and Water
- 02/04/12 - Sugar High: The Dark History and Nasty Methods Used to Feed Our Sweet Tooth
- 02/04/12 - The Scary Danger of Meat (Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)
- 02/02/12 - Maine Voices: It's Time to Rebuild a System that Supports Local Food and Farms
- 02/02/12 - Kentucky Food Freedom Takes on Big Ag in S.B. 47
- 02/02/12 - Pink Slime, Ammonium Hydroxide Fast Food Ground Beef Additive, Dropped By McDonald's Et Al.
- 02/01/12 - Why You Absolutely Must Personally Treat Your Own Water
- 02/01/12 - Calif. 'Downer' Pig Ban Blocked by Supreme Court
- 01/31/12 - Scientists Want FDA to Ban BPA, Endocrine Disruptors
- 01/30/12 - Hidden Risk: Mercury Pollution's Costs to Wildlife and People
- 01/30/12 - Petition Tells Obama: 'Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto'
- 01/25/12 - We Have the Right to Know About Dioxins in our Food!
- 01/25/12 - Can Healthy Food Come from Unhealthy Workers?
- 01/23/12 - Bill to Label GE Fish Fails in California Legislature
- 01/23/12 - Dangers of Eating Food Dyes
- 01/22/12 - Drinking Toxic Fruit Juices May Lead to Arsenic Poisoning
- 01/18/12 - Why the FDA Won't Act Against Agricultural Antibiotic Use
- 01/13/12 - Antiobiotics, Animals and the FDA
- 01/12/12 - Action Alert: Pro-Fluoride Fanatics Pushing Pinellas County, Fla., Commission to Reinstate Water Fluoridation
- 01/11/12 - The Next Generation of GMOs Could be Especially Dangerous
- 01/11/12 - Rules Tighten on Use of Antibiotics on Farms Across the Globe
- 01/09/12 - Pepsi's Lawyers Say Mountain Dew Can Dissolve a Mouse
- 01/05/12 - F.D.A. Restricts Cephalosporin Antibiotics in Livestock, But Critics Point Out This is Only a Tiny Step Forward
- 01/04/12 - FDA Withdraws Longstanding Petition to Regulate Antibiotics in Livestock Feed
- 12/28/11 - Burger Chains Ditch "Pink Slime," then Whine
- 12/23/11 - JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
- 12/20/11 - Alert: Stop Frankenfish!
- 12/14/11 - Nanotechnology in Food: In the Absence of Regulations, Nonprofit Releases New Framework for Companies to Evaluate Safety
- 12/12/11 - Food Giants Fight Proposed Nutrition Guidelines
- 12/09/11 - Eating at Fast Food Restaurants May Lead to Food Poisoning
- 12/07/11 - New Study Shows That Rice May Be Contaminated With Arsenic
- 12/02/11 - Arsenic-It's in Animal Feed Too
- 11/30/11 - High Levels of Arsenic Found in Fruit Juice
- 11/30/11 - Thanskgiving Eve Food Recalls Raise Questions about Timing
- 11/28/11 - Raw Milk Freedom Riders To Defy FDA Warning
- 11/23/11 - BPA Lurks in Canned Soups and Drinks
- 11/21/11 - What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?
- 11/21/11 - 'Use-By' Dates: A Myth That Needs Busting
- 11/18/11 - Common Infections Will Be 'Untreatable' if Antibiotic Misuse Continues
- 11/01/11 - Private Companies Decide Food Safety, Says Report
- 11/01/11 - E. coli Sickens 14 this Week in St. Louis Area
- 11/01/11 - Could We Face the Return of Mad Cow Disease? Experts Fear It May Lie Dormant in Thousands
- 10/19/11 - Obama Administration 'Bailed Out' GM Salmon Firm
- 10/19/11 - Is the Company Behind GMO Salmon the Next Solyndra?
- 10/18/11 - Fumigation Nation: Battling Pesticide Use in California
- 10/17/11 - Industry and OCA Sharply Disagree on Safety of Food Irradiation
- 10/17/11 - Drug-Resistant Staph Infections in Europe Could Mark Start of a New Epidemic
- 10/11/11 - Two New Reasons to Worry about Air Pollution: Obesity and Diabetes
- 10/09/11 - Beware of Toxic Genetically Engineered Proteins Found in Non-Organic Food
- 10/09/11 - Exposed: Federal Funding for GMO Salmon?
- 10/06/11 - Tainted Seafood Reaching U.S., Experts Say
- 10/03/11 - Flood of Food Imported, Just 2 Percent Inspected
- 10/02/11 - Salmonella Stays with Chickens, from Birth to Kitchen
- 09/30/11 - Deadly Cantaloupes - Could it Be CAFOs?
- 09/29/11 - USDA Quietly Turns Down Irradiation
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