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April 18th, 2009
Tag: "mercury"
January 28th, 2009
Mercury Found In Products Made With High Fructose Corn Syrup.
As if we needed another reason to not buy or eat products made with high fructose corn syrup instead of real sugar:
Many common foods made using commercial high fructose corn syrup contain mercury as well, researchers reported on Tuesday, while another study suggested the corn syrup itself is contaminated.
Food processors and the corn syrup industry [...]
December 30th, 2008
FDA Pushing Plan to Promote Mercury-Laced Seafood Diet for Pregnant Women and Children.
Documents obtained by Environmental Working Group (EWG) show that officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are pressing to reverse the agency’s current recommendations that pregnant women and children limit their seafood consumption due to risks of exposure to mercury – an extremely harmful neurotoxin found at high levels in a number of popular [...]
July 04th, 2008
Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Seventy Two.
Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye when I had a chance to catch up on some green reading the last couple of days here from my camping chair!
A new study out of the University of Washington has found that penguin populations are plummeting due to climate change, pollution and other factors [...]
