Food Safety
Do you know what's in your food?
With all of the problems in our food system, it can be hard to find the information we need to make smart choices about the food we eat. Use this page to keep up to date on food safety issues, including pesticides, aspartame, flouridation, irraditation, toxic sludge, mad cow disease, and more.
Potentially toxic pesticide residue still found on 70 percent of non-organic fresh fruits and vegetables
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After having been canceled in 2020 and 2021, Natural Products Expo West returned last week to Anaheim for its 41st show, put on by New Hope Network.
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With Covid-19, kids (94% of those infected) seem to be managing well, and their microbiota plays a big part in keeping their immune systems strong. So how can parents best support their kids’ microbiomes to ensure they have the strong immune systems needed to fight infections?
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Lawyers for DuPont knew the Food and Drug Administration had a serious concern that the company’s new food packaging product might be toxic.
Beagles and rats that were fed DuPont’s grease-resistant coating for paper wrappers had enlarged livers after three months, a report showed.
The year was 1966.
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Transhumanist visionaries do not deserve our fear.
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Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as
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Moisture, temperature, and ripening technique also play a part in how quickly it can spoil.
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Though bio-engineered fish weren’t banned, efforts to identify them succeeded.
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A first-of-its-kind study investigating the effects of a common food additive on human gut bacteria has found the emulsifier carboxymethylcellulose can alter the quality and composition of the microbiome and potentially increase a person’s risk of chronic intestinal inflammation.
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Invasive carp cause serious damage to native fish populations in the Mississippi River and the lakes and rivers throughout the Midwest because they out-compete native species for food and space. The fish are wild and thrash about as they sail through the air, sometimes smacking fishers in the face. The carp pose another more serious threat, however.
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