Archive for July, 2009

Chemicals: Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Currently, it’s the other way around: compounds are allowed to proliferate in our food and water until they are proven unsafe. And what constitutes proof? In the case of BPA, there are many more studies showing it unsafe than safe, but the compound continues to be approved by the FDA, at least for now.

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Congressional Hearing on Bottled Water Safety Yesterday

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

But complete disclosure is rare. An EWG study released at the hearing checked 188 bottled water brands and found that less than 2 percent disclose all three basic facts about their water, on the label or in a Web site. Those facts are the water’s source, how it was purified, and what contaminants remain.

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