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Mike Adams launches eco-friendly LED lighting technology with 1000% improvement in energy efficiency Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

My passions focus on areas that include disease prevention through nutrition, green living, renewable energy, consumer safety, animal welfare and more. For the past four years, my efforts have focused primarily on education, grassroots activism and content creation. Today, I'm expanding the scope of these efforts with the launch of two new for-profit entities that aim to deliver practical yet innovative products that help people live healthier, more sustainable lives in harmony with our planet. The two companies are: EcoLEDs (www.EcoLEDS.

Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Moreover, an FDA consumer safety officer told me that "the safety of stevia has been questioned by published studies. And no one has ever provided the FDA with adequate evidence that the substance is safe.

Aspartame consumer safety Network website, http://www.aspartamesafety.com/. Aspartame (NutraSweet) Toxicity Info Center, http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/. Austin Business Journal. "Texas Consumer Group Is Sour on Splenda Sweetener," January 31, 2005. http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2005/01/31/daily6.html. Bailey, Bill. "What Is Stevia Rebaudiana and Is It Safe?" http://www.lowcarbnexus.com/articles/stevia. html. Barrett, Stephen. "Stevia: Is It safe?" http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/ stevia.html. Bastin, Sandra. "Nonnutritive Sweeteners.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

Estee Lauder spokeswoman Janet Bartucci said the company would review the Friends of the Earth report, and gave assurances that "consumer safety has always been a top priority at the Estee Lauder Companies." Lisa Archer from Friends of the Earth said she thinks corporations should "stop treating their customers like guinea pigs" by putting nanoparticles into personal care products before the materials are proven safe. In the absence of federal regulations, some cities are trying to get a handle on the situation.

Update on Senate bill S.1082 and implications for the health freedom of consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Thus, the bill is widely viewed by most people in the health freedom movement as a net loss to consumer safety, which is why grassroots opposition to S.1082 has steadily grown. What's clear from the Senate's action on the bill is that consumers are not in any meaningful way represented by lawmakers. Rather than fighting to protect consumers' health and hard-earned dollars, the majority of senators have voted in accordance with the wishes of their corporate sponsors -- the drug companies themselves. Thus, the imminent passage of S.

Health Ranger hails CPSI effort to stop Kellogg Co. from marketing junk food to children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The Health Ranger's articles on health and consumer safety are published at www.NewsTarget.com. Adams is also the co-author of the popular Real Safety(TM) series of consumer guides published at www.RealSafety.

What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Bacterial Contamination This information was based on a routine November 2003 inspection by Rebecca Rodriguez, an FDA consumer safety Officer, of the Sandoz pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Kundl, Austria. Kundl is the sole manufacturer of Posilac. Rodriguez reported nine sterility failures and bacterial contamination in the facility environment, its equipment, and raw materials from 2001 to 2003. "In five instances, the bacteria were identified as Propkmibacterium acnes, Staphylococcus and Bacillus pumilus.

Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

Corporate profits garner a much higher priority than consumer safety, as is obvious to anyone who is familiar with the consistent actions of both agencies in this area. But the USDA wasn't always like that. In fact, they tried to ban sodium nitrite decades ago... The USDA tried to ban sodium nitrite in the 1970s Even when these agencies try to do the right thing, political pressure from the food industry makes it virtually impossible. On September 19, 1977, a USDA advisory committee on nitrosamines asked the meat industry to find replacements for nitrites in meats.

In 1988, the Aspartame consumer safety Network installed a private hot line to receive inquiries from pilots who are in jeopardy of losing their flying licenses because of seizure episodes from the use of aspartame. Since 1988, more than six hundred calls have been made to the confidential hot line. One caller noted that "after just two cups of NutraSweetened hot chocolate, a pilot experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panel and very narrowly avoided a tragic landing. Safely on the ground, he related his story to the coworkers in his office.

According to the Aspartame consumer safety Network information, "The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness." - Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers In this way, a human being who consumes a six-pack of diet soft drinks made with aspartame is actually a walking EPA violation. That person technically carries enough methanol in their own body to qualify as toxic waste and be subjected to federal environmental laws.

America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived Dr. Timothy Scott See book keywords and concepts

The testimony stated that the new DSOB "will enhance the independence of internal deliberations and decisions regarding risk/benefit analyses and consumer safety."55 The goals for the DSOB are commendable and needed, but I can assure you the new board will not look at how the antidepressant drug studies are designed (Chapter 7, Tricks of the Trade), the actual effectiveness of antidepressants (Chapter 8, Do Antidepressants Work?) or the side effects of these drugs (Chapters 10, 11 & 13). The controversy and costs would be too great.

The health dangers of trans fats have been known for decades, yet food companies still poison customers with hydrogenated oils Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The FDA has utterly failed to protect the public from toxic ingredients and continues to demonstrate its own failure with each and every decision that places corporate profits ahead of consumer safety. There's no question that consumers are harmed by the consumption of hydrogenated oils, and yet the FDA continues to allow this ingredient to be legally used, sold and marketed in products that will be repeatedly consumed by families, parents, children, senior citizens and other groups that are at high risk of chronic disease or nutritional disorders.

Consumer Alert: Hoodia Gordonii weight loss pills scam exposed by independent investigation Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Furthermore, until Truth Publishing initiated this investigation, no consumer safety organization, nor the FTC, nor the FDA were working on putting a stop to this. Pure Hoodia likely could have continued selling bogus products to unsuspecting consumers for many months or years.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

So while rules can never supplant innovation and creativity, they can at least ensure a minimum level of consumer safety and restrict destructive practices. As it turns out, not all manufacturers make reducing our cancer risk their first priority. Outside the European Union, which recently mandated new restrictions on hazardous substances, most governments are doing very little, and moving very slowly to do it. This makes the flip side of legislation, the certification scheme, so interesting: it is the carrot to legislation's stick.

What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Current concerns on the potential hazards of BGH are such that they will not be allayed by generalities and assurances of responsibility of FDA with regard to consumer safety, particularly in view of the track record of the agency, in general, and the Center for Veterinary Medicine in particular, as illustratively documented in my report. Nor will such concerns be allayed by the promise that the FDA intends publishing a scientific paper on this subject in early 1990, some six years after the FDA has allowed the sale of unlabeled hormone-treated milk to the general public.

November 2003: An FDA consumer safety Officer reported evidence of extensive bacterial contamination of the equipment and environmental samples in Monsanto's manufacturing plant in Austria. December 2003: Monsanto admitted to "corrections and improvements" undertaken in its Austrian plant. January 2004: Monsanto admitted that Posilac supplies would be cut in half through the end of the year.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism Marion Nestle See book keywords and concepts

Food & consumer safety Inspectors, working on the front lines of the meat, poultry & egg products industries, usually under miserable conditions, safeguarding the American food supply." At the time (it has since been sold), the Community Nutrition Institute published Nutrition Week, a newsletter that tracks current events in food and nutrition. Both were run by Rodney Leonard, long an outspoken advocate of improved food safety. Mr.

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating Jeffrey M. Smith See book keywords and concepts

The anonymous letter continues, "She picked an arbitrary and scientifically unsupported number of 1 ppm as being the allowable amount of antimicrobial in milk permitted without any consumer safety testing." They pointed out that the 1 ppm limit is for each type of medicine. Milk could have many antibiotics at this level. "Effects of the different antibiotics could be additive and this is not taken into account." The letter claimed, "Dr. Miller's policy was used as the basis for approval of BST despite increased antibiotic usage. This also is a direct conflict of interest to have Dr.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) - Is It Safe? H.J. Roberts, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Mary Nash Stoddard (President, Aspartame consumer safety Network) 1V1ANY HEALTH-CONSCIOUS OLDER persons deliberately consume aspartame products to avoid sugar. Unfortunately, reactors to aspartame-containing products in this age group face additional risks. • The occurrence or aggravation of memory loss related to aspartame usage may be misinterpreted as "aging," "small strokes," or even Alzheimer's disease (see below) in persons over 60. • Aspartame-associated confusion and drowsiness that contributes to a traffic accident could lead to the loss of an older driver's license . . .

Italics added) The Aspartame consumer safety Network This national consumer activist group formally requested the FDA on June 27, 1989 to deny two petitions submitted by Foodways National, Inc. and the NutraSweet Company for the addition of aspartame to frozen dairy and nondairy frostings, cheesecakes, fruit and fruit toppings. This group, headed by Mary Stoddard of Dallas, cited the following facts as reasons for denying both petitions, and for convening a formal hearing thereon. "1. Aspartame, in actual use by human consumers, has not been proven to be safe.

An FDA consumer safety officer stated, "We concluded that there was no cause-and-effect relationship between the complaints and aspartame . . . There are always individual people who have idiosyncratic reactions to different substances" (The Miami Herald July 31, 1986, p. PFJ-4). • A patient with fructose intolerance inquired about the safety of aspartame. She was advised, "You shouldn't have a problem with it." She proceeded to use it. . . and suffered a severe reaction.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

The competing claims of consumer safety and freedom of choice raise many ethical dilemmas. One could just as well ask, however: Would it have been ethical for Burzynski to withhold his nontoxic treatment from dying patients, when no state or federal law at the time required him to do so? When the regulatory barrier erected by FDA required an expenditure many thousand times what he possessed?

20 Years of Censored News Carl Jensen See book keywords and concepts

Radioactive Waste and the Dangers of Food Irradiation 1988 SYNOPSIS: Despite serious questions concerning effectiveness and consumer safety, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) plans to set up 1,000 food irradiation facilities around the country within the next ten years. Food irradiation is a process in which food is put on a conveyor belt and exposed to radiation from a radioactive source such as cobalt-60 or cesium-137.

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meal Industry Gail A. Eisnitz See book keywords and concepts

It's their bosses in Washington who almost always place agribusiness interests above consumer safety and animal welfare. "The meat industry's high-powered lobbying usually starts at the district level and extends through headquarters," Devine said. "Those officials, by and large, are bureaucrats or paper-pushers who develop the regulatory policy. From the circuit level on down, the staff work in meat plants. They're the ones who get their hands dirty." £ * * I made an appointment to meet with Dr. Lester Friedlander, a USDA veterinarian who patrolled several slaughter plants in Pennsylvania.

I learned how these same agribusiness leaders could set the stage for deadly outbreaks of foodborne illness and how they could allow helpless animals to be tortured and dismembered alive; how, with meat industry profits being their main interest, consumer safety a lesser priority, and the welfare of animals a nonexistent concern, USDA officials could have created an atmosphere where packers are permitted—if not encouraged—to operate outside the law.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Under the consumer safety Act of 1978, the Secretary of State has, for the first time, the power to prohibit the supply of any dangerous goods which appear on the market, and also to insist that hazardous consumer products which are already available should be the subject of published warnings. Within the department itself, the Minister of State for Consumer Affairs takes special responsibility for consumer protection and information and also for product liability. So far, two prohibition orders which relate to carcinogenic substances have been made under the 1978 Act.

They signify the changing attitudes of industry toward the environment and consumer safety. After all, consumer confidence and taking care of the environment make good business sense. Consumers' Right to Know Consumers have an inalienable right to know what ingredients are in products they use daily, and to be certain that chemicals posing chronic health risks will be phased out when alternatives are available. These are rights, regardless of one's perception of the risk of the ingredient.

The Crazy Makers: How the Food Industry Is Destroying Our Brains and Harming Our Children Carol Simontacchi See book keywords and concepts

In 1988, the Aspartame consumer safety Network installed a private hot line to receive inquiries from pilots who are in jeopardy of losing their flying licenses because of seizure episodes from the use of aspartame. Since 1988, more than six hundred calls have been made to the confidential hot line. One caller noted that "after just two cups of Nu-traSweetened hot chocolate, a pilot experienced blurred vision so severe he was unable to read instruments on his panel and very narrowly avoided a tragic landing. Safely on the ground, he related his story to the coworkers in his office.

According to the Aspartame consumer safety Network information, "The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems including misty vision, progressive contraction of visual fields, blurring of vision, obscuration of vision, retinal damage, and blindness." During the 1991 Gulf War, in a marketing campaign disguised as a spirit of patriotism, all military personnel were provided free supplies of aspartame-laced soft drinks (along with experimental vaccines, nerve gas antidotes, and personal insecticides).

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) - Is It Safe? H.J. Roberts, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The problem has become so severe that in December, 1988, national leaders of the Aspartame consumer safety Network convened a FAA national headquarters in Washington DC for a meeting with Deputy Flight Surgeon, Dr. Jordan, to discuss ways to solve the problem of pilots and aspartame. To date no solutions have been agreed upon. "4. A warning to PKU children and adults is printed on labels of foods and drinks containing aspartame. However, it must be painfully obvious that these foods named in the petition will not be labeled when served in home and other social settings.

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