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Time for U.S. Regulators to Get Serious About Safety of Popular Pesticide
It's about time. Plans by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation's chief food safety regulator, to start testing food for residues of the world's most widely used weed killer come at a...
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Hawai‘i Center for Food Safety
Hawai‘i Center for Food Safety About Hawai‘i CFS Join the Movement Campaigns Pesticide Disclosure & Buffer Zones Pollinators & Pesticides Home Rule GE Food Labeling Community Empowerment Youth...
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10 Food Policy Questions We Want Answered From the 2016 Presidential Candidates
In a recent poll by the Union of Concerned Scientists, 94 percent of American voters expressed concern about the state of the food system – and said that it was a very important issue to them. More...
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Organic honey is a sweet success for Cuba as other bee populations suffer
Long known for its cigars and rum, Cuba has added organic honey to its list of key agricultural exports, creating a buzz among farmers as pesticide use has been linked to declining bee populations...
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How to Improve Nutrition Labeling on Food
Health experts believe the way to get people to eat better is to tell them which foods are healthy and which ones aren’t. Nutrition facts panels—the little info-boxes on the back of food packages that...
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Will shoppers on food stamps pick up fresher foods?
GWEN IFILL: The official unemployment rate may have just fallen to under 5 percent, but food stamps remain a pivotal part of daily life for millions of Americans; 46 million people, or about one of...
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Your Starbucks drink may have 25 spoons of sugar in it
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Superbugs: curb use of today’s antibiotics, and develop new ones, urge MEPs
Veterinary medicines must not serve to compensate for poor animal husbandry, say MEPs ©AP Images/ European Union-EP To fight the growing resistance of bacteria to today’s antibiotics, the use of...
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Science Used to Regulate Roundup is Outdated, Says New Study
Go Back: Home > Earth Island Journal > Latest News > Post and Comments Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, is now the world’s most widely used weed-killer. First...
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Winter wildlife: There's something alive out there in the garden
Squirrels, chickadees and trees aren't the only things that live through the long, cold winter. Many insects and microorganisms can survive a Chicago winter just fine, according to Stephanie Adams,...
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Big Oil could be hit with a wave of oil company bankruptcies
The stock market giveth and the stock market taketh away. A new report by the auditing and consulting firm Deloitte warns that a third of publicly traded oil companies could go bankrupt this year....
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Scientists can’t agree whether salt is killing us. Here’s why.
The debate over the perils of salty diets may be one of the most polarized in all of science. On one side, scientists warn ominously that most Americans are killing themselves with salt. On the other,...
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Corrosion outside oil pipeline caused crude spill on California coast
Federal regulators say corrosion on the outside of an oil pipeline was the cause of a major crude spill on the Santa Barbara coast last year. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
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10 ways the UK's eating habits have changed
Figures charting the UK's changing food-buying patterns since 1974 have been released. What do they tell us about the nation? In with chips, fresh fruit and dried pasta. Out with white bread, tinned...
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State: Food industry lobby engaged in 'egregious' money laundering in 2013 vote
The Grocery Manufacturers Association concealed the source of $11 million spent to fight a 2013 ballot initiative, and internal documents reveal how it was done, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson...
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Questions farm workers have for Bernie Sanders
There is more to Bernie Sanders' record on immigration than what was revealed during his debate exchange with Hillary Clinton last week in Wisconsin. He has made invaluable contributions to the...
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Should We Be Watering California's Crops With Oil Field Wastewater?
California is a major agricultural state. It’s also a major oil-producing state. And never the twain shall meet, right? Not quite. In fact, there’s a big overlap in some areas of the state that are...
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Brokers of junk science?
His complaints got no traction with editor McClellan or then-publisher Informa Health, which Grandjean said reneged on promises to conduct an independent review. Taylor & Francis, the current...
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How narrators for drug ads take scariness out of side effects
Drug makers are legally required to spend money telling you their products might lead to a series of horrifying side effects, up to and including death. Needless to say, for the pharmaceutical...
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