Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  His job was to make sure they could keep doing their work without the undue interference of a new federal law that would basically tax existing companies to pay for the past sins of others. I needed to understand that the fact that someone of his obvious intelligence and skill being engaged on behalf of the chemical industry signaled a sea change in industrial practices.
The memo from Covington that Frost had thrust on the Senate was a direct hit on our team, claiming that we had been wrong on the facts, wrong on the law, biased and careless—words that cut to the quick. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In other words, by federal law, dietary supplements are generally considered to be foods.
It is for this reason that the language of the original Durbin amendment establishing a new adulterated food registry could have been read to apply to dietary supplements.
This raised problems for me, and indeed for our colleague Senator Harkin, since we had spent more than 2 years working with Senators Durbin, Kennedy, and Enzi to draft, pass and enact the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 109-462. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And, most importantly, we need policies that would require that chemicals be safe for the fetus, infant, and other vulnerable populations -- a simple, commonsense idea completely absent from current federal law. Such advances would dramatically improve our understanding of health impacts from chemical exposures, and would go a long way toward sealing the gaps that leave consumers at risk from a lifetime of exposure to chemicals. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  Since federal law does not allow access to patients through doctors' offices or health records, Judith had to be creative. She examined old tax records to find those who had lived in the area and moved, then, if she was able to track them down, she asked about their health status. She arranged for billboards to be raised alongside the highways in the vicinity. The signs showed three African-American women standing side by side and big bold letters saying "We live near 858 E. Ferry St. We all have Lupus. Are you sick too? Take 5 minutes and call Judith to join the registry. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  As we have seen, an important (perhaps coequal) function of the emergency room, a function mandated by federal law, is to provide health care for uninsured and disadvantaged populations. In theory, it makes no sense whatever to have the same cite for the care of cardiac arrest and for safety net primary care—life and death on the one hand, routine on the other. Having these two dispatate tasks leads to problems: overcrowding, deterioration of services, patient dumping, and to closing a significant number of emergency departments. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition to the huge gaps in health research, Beauty Secrets documented major loopholes in federal law that allow companies to put unlimited amounts of toxic and untested chemicals into products. "Contrary to popular belief, industrial chemicals in consumer products are essentially unregulated in the United States," Jane reported. "Except for chemicals added directly to food, there is no legal requirement for health and safety testing or human exposure monitoring for any chemical in commerce."6 Beauty Secrets was released at the National Press Club in Washington DC on November 28, 2000. | | Major loopholes in federal law allow the $20-billion-a-year cosmetics industry to put unlimited amounts of phthalates into many personal care products with no required testing, no required monitoring of health effects, and no required labeling," said the Not Too Pretty report.8 "To our knowledge, the 72 products detailed in this study represent the most comprehensive information available on the occurrence of phthalates in individual beauty care products." Yet the study represented just a tiny fraction of products on the market. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  A major loophole in U.S. federal law allows fragrance makers to include potentially hazardous chemicals in their products, including the highly toxic phthalates and artificial musk. Most fragrances contain phthalates. They are added to plastic to soften it. When absorbed by the skin, they act as the most powerful estrogens ever known. And abnormal estrogen levels cause cancer. Synthetically produced musk is linked to skin irritation, hormone disruption, and cancer as well. Natural fragrances emitted from aroma oils are beneficial for the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Corporations have proven they will poison the environment, kill members of the public, bribe politicians, violate federal law, engage in competitive espionage, threaten critics, bribe the media, endanger lives, wipe out animal species and sacrifice the very future of life on planet Earth in order to squeeze out one more quarter of filthy profits. And they will do it with a straight face, while actually claiming they are "green."
There will be a day when the people will rise up against the corruption and overreaching power of the corporations. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts | | The group also weighed in directly on such matters as why the country needed a federal law to control toxic chemicals. At one of the early meetings of the EMS at Brown University, Legator remembers, "I bumped into Paul Calabrese, who was head of the cancer group at Brown University. Suddenly I find myself needing funds for research. We had a meeting where Jack Killian, medical director of Dow, talked all about how we really needed to monitor workers on a continuing basis. I was really impressed by this. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  But in reality, a federal law passed in 1973 served the same purpose, but with lower standards that didn't require saturating mattresses with such high amounts of toxic chemical. It's a shame that people who don't smoke (and even those who do) are being exposed to this health risk; if health were really the uppermost concern, they should have passed a law against smoking in bed! |
Melody Petersen
See book keywords and concepts |  There is a federal law that requires insurance companies to report settlements in malpractice cases to a federally funded data bank, but the public has little access to this information. Many hospitals have avoided even this reporting requirement by removing the doctor's name from the malpractice lawsuit. This secrecy is systemic, and it works to protect bad doctors and bad drugs, just as today's medical industry has shown it prefers.
But there is one system, woefully underfunded and weak, that collects deaths and injuries from prescription drugs. | | Jerry remembers how the letter had explained that Rezulin would soon be in pharmacies, similar to how moviegoers see previews of films that are "coming soon." federal law prohibits drug companies from promoting products before government approval.
Jerry said he doesn't blame his doctor for prescribing Rezulin. After all, he took the letter to the physician and asked him to prescribe the drug, the very action pharmaceutical companies try to provoke through their advertisements. "It was my bright idea to try it," he said. | | Eventually he and his lawyers used the evidence he had gathered to file a lawsuit against Warner-Lambert and its subsidiary Parke-Davis under the False Claims Act, a federal law passed in 1863 at the urging of
President Abraham Lincoln. The law had been directed at war profiteers who were selling the Union army guns that could not fire, horses that could not walk, and bags of "gunpowder" that contained only sawdust. The fraud by the private supply companies cost taxpayers millions of dollars and put the lives of soldiers at risk. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  This is something to think about given that children's sleepwear is required by federal law to meet flammability standards.
Formaldehyde isn't confined to just your mattress. It's found in several household products, including disinfectants, bleach, aerosols, air fresheners, window and carpet cleaners, dry-cleaning fluids, and pesticides. The most significant source of formaldehyde in the indoor environment is probably pressed-wood products (particleboard, plywood, and fiberboard). |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts | | All new mattresses have to conform to guidelines in a federal law passed in 2006 designed to ensure your mattress won't accidentally catch fire from a dropped cigarette.3S In a test that vastly exceeds the power of the average cigarette, mattresses must now pass a rigorous high-intensity flame test in which they're subjected to a two-foot-wide flame from a blowtorch for 70 seconds. To make mattresses that can withstand this test, manufacturers must use excessive amounts of toxic, carcinogenic fire-retardant chemicals. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | In Germany, a federal law passed in the mid-nineties prohibits dentists to give mercury fillings to their patients. For the same reason, most North-European countries have limited the use of amalgam, and Sweden, Spain, Austria, and Denmark, among others, also banned this product in the year 2000. The amalgam compounds are so toxic that dentists are instructed not to touch amalgam with bare hands and store excess amalgam in tightly sealed containers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  If they pass a federal law mandating national AIDS testing, I promise I'll be at the head of the march on Washington, holding up the banner of health freedom and demanding the law be ruled unconstitutional. It is, technically, a violation of the 4th Amendment, because mandatory AIDS testing is an illegal search of your body. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  In fact, this white powder is so lacking in vitamins that federal law requires the food factory to add in tiny amounts of certain, isolated vitamins such as B3 to make sure this food doesn't cause obvious nutritional deficiency diseases like beriberi.
How refined, milled grains cause nutritional deficiencies
This phenomenon is explained well by Dr. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
See book keywords and concepts |  USA Today reporters found that though, as already noted, federal law does not allow the experts who vote to approve a new drug to have a direct financial interest in the drug they are evaluating, more than half of the experts do have these conflicts of interest. But if the law does not allow this, how could this be possible? The answer is found in the fact that the experts are given waivers by the FDA. This is not a rare event. It occurs nearly 200 to 400 times per year.36
This problem is not limited to the FDA. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | Haas goes on to describe the subsequent "enrichment" of milled grains as required by federal law in order to prevent diseases due to nutritional deficiencies:
Refining grains and flours creates a number of problems. The major one is the loss of nutrients that occurs from processing them, particularly the loss of most of the B vitamins, vitamin E, and the many minerals that are found naturally in whole grains. In the United States, by law, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and iron must be added back into the grain products, making the 'enriched' breads, pastas, cereals, and so on. |
Henry Hobhouse
See book keywords and concepts |  After 1850, when the federal law was passed, the slaves were aiming for Canada, where they were safe and free; there was said to be an "underground railway" of sympathizers who helped slaves reach the border. While very few managed to escape the Deep South (Atlanta is 700 miles from the Canadian border), Ripley, Ohio, a famous station on the "underground railway," is only 200 miles from the border, and Ohio was a state full of slave-sympathizers and authorities who winked at the law, or ignored it in favor of the fugitive. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  However, in the preamble to these new regulations, the FDA inserted conclusory and legally unsupported statements that tort lawsuits alleging a failure to warn of known or reasonably knowable safety risks are preempted by federal law. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  National Uniformity for Food Act," lowers the bar on food safety by overturning state food safety laws that are not "identical" to federal law. Hundreds of state laws and regulations are at risk, including those governing the safety of milk, fish, and shellfish. The bill is being pushed by large supermarket chains and food manufacturers, spearheaded by the powerful Grocery Manufacturers of America. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In fact, according to federal law, nearly all bottles of perfume, deodorant, lotion, shampoo and skin care products are illegally labeled, because they contain cancer-causing ingredients, and yet they have no warnings on the labels whatsoever to alert consumers about those ingredients.
But now there's a new skincare product line from the Amazon Herb Company that is actually healthy. It actually contains only helpful ingredients. None of those harmful ingredients found in most other skin care and cosmetic products are found in this line. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So here in the United States, we have the benefit of this federal law that requires food manufacturers to actually tell us what foods are made of. That's not to be taken for granted. It's something we enjoy and it's very important for public safety and public health. Of all the dopey things the FDA has done over the years, at least it got this one right.
#7: Creative expression and Hollywood
The next thing to love about America is the entertainment industry, and in particular, the movie industry. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Irradiated food sold in stores in the United States must, according to federal law, be identified with the green, flowerlike international symbol for irradiation. Labeling also must include the words "Treated with radiation" or "Treated by irradiation." However, there is a move to allow the term "cold pasteurization" to be used instead. Also, since the federal government lacks jurisdiction over establishments selling prepared foods, irradiated foods are often sold without such labeling. In addition, irradiated ingredients need not be identified as such on labels of prepared and processed foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Then we regulate that poisoning, we make it federal law! And we have lobbyists and groups out there defending this use of poison in the food supply, and defending the use of it in cosmetic products and personal care products. We have defenders of the drug industry, people who say, "Yeah, well there was a study five years ago that showed a 1200 percent heart attack increase, but we thought that really wasn't relevant to this drug and we decided to go ahead and market that drug anyway." That's what we have today. And the real details of this gruesome story have only begun to be uncovered. |
Jack Challem
See book keywords and concepts |  Most food ingredients must, by federal law, be listed on packages. I say "most" because food processors sometimes play a shell game to avoid listing certain ingredients. For example, "natural flavors" is a vague statement that could refer to culinary herbs, sugars, or monosodium glutamate (MSG, a flavor enhancer that makes some people ill).
It is important that you not be influenced by pleasant-sounding but promotional words, such as "natural," "organic," or "low-carb" on the front of a package. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The FDA states that such labeling could be "false or misleading" under federal law, as there is no "significant difference between milk from treated and untreated cows."
Monsanto, maker of the hormone, is already suing one large Midwest milk producer for using the label.
The confusing FDA guidelines were, according to the consumer publication Daily Citizen, written by Deputy Commissioner Michael Taylor, a former counsel for Monsanto and a biotech umbrella organization. The guidelines are scientifically flawed and reckless and reflect flagrant disregard of consumers' right to know. |
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