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Hospitals and care homes are failing food safety inspections

10/5/2016 - Any time food safety concerns take the spotlight, such as in the recent listeria-related food recalls, people are often warned that it is the sick and elderly who are most vulnerable. You would think, therefore, that the standards in kitchens that cater to this segment of the population might be held...

Plague of corruption - Shocking vaccine safety news revealed

9/9/2016 - When I talk about seizures, encephalitis, cardiovascular disease or even sudden death – many people would think I'm talking about a new and deadly virus. In truth, these are the unwanted side effects that can follow the administration of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil – which public health authorities...

Statement declaring 'No scientific consensus on GMO safety' published in peer-reviewed science journal

8/2/2016 - In 2013, the biotech community responded, declaring there is a "scientific consensus" that GM foods are safe for human and environmental health. However, after reviewing these claims, more than 300 scientists disagree with the biotech community and say this statement is "misleading" and that...

New Yorkers pressure utility industry for smart meter alternative, citing health and safety concerns

8/1/2016 - Citizens of New York State are demanding that utility companies provide an alternative to "smart meters," due to increasing concerns over safety and health. Digital utility (DU) meters, commonly known as smart meters, have been linked to a number of serious health issues, and have also been known...

Why you can never trust the pesticide industry's own safety tests

5/9/2016 - Pesticide companies rigorously test their products before turning them loose on the public, right? Because if not, wouldn't they stand a grand chance of being wiped out by a mass class-action suit if their products turned out to really be harmful? Not really, it turns out. As reported by the group...

The vaccine empire strikes back: Rumors swirl that Dr. Thompson has been bought off by the CDC and will submit 'reanalyzed' MMR research to destroy vaccine safety skeptics

4/25/2016 - Rumors have been swirling over the weekend that the CDC is planning a major offensive against vaccine safety skeptics due to the remarkable popularity of the VAXXED documentary film. As censorship of the film spectacularly backfired, more people became aware of the "CDC whistleblower" Dr. William Thompson,...

Smart Meters causing tidal wave of mysterious illnesses that strike people in their own homes

4/25/2016 - In recent years there have been increasing reports that "smart meters" – the digitized electric meters that are designed to send usage figures to power companies wirelessly – are causing a range of health issues among a growing portion of the population where such devices are in use. In...

EPA bases glyphosate safety on Monsanto data before mysteriously yanking documents from website, saying review is incomplete

3/17/2016 12:09:44 PM - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is currently assessing the toxicity of the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup. The agency reviews each registered pesticide every 15 years to determine its safety and whether or not it's still in compliance with the...

The GMO DARK Act cannot survive the light

3/1/2016 - An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont's labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st. Although proponents of these foods scored a major victory in July when they...

Glyphosate residues in Roundup Ready crops are ignored in safety studies

2/9/2016 - All but one of the animal feeding studies performed by independent researchers found significant effects from GM feed (Story by GMWatch, republished from GMWatch.org.) Glyphosate residues in GM Roundup Ready crops are largely ignored in studies used for GMO regulatory safety assessments, according...

Russian group launches large-scale, long-term GMO safety study to test Monsanto's transgenic corn

1/26/2016 - A study that is estimated to cost $25 million, run over the course of three years and experiment on thousands of rats by feeding them Monsanto genetically modified maize and the herbicide it's made with is in the works, expected to go into full swing in 2015. The reason behind the need for the long-term...

Unlabeled GMO salmon coming to a store or restaurant near you: FDA approves Frankenfish despite lack of safety studies

11/30/2015 - If that glistening salmon filet in the cold case at the grocery store looks bigger and more ... engineered than normal in 2016, it could be the laboratory version of real salmon grown under AquaBounty Technologies' patented "AquAdvantage" label (which, ironically, won't actually be labeled for consumers),...

California begins injecting children with mercury... flu shot 'shortage' cited as bizarre justification... state safety laws nullified to push vaccines

11/30/2015 - California Health and Human Services Agency Secretary Diana S. Dooley has just cast aside a law intended to protect children from mercury in vaccines. In a letter dated October 9 (see full text below), Dooley is now urging all children in California to be injected with mercury -- TWICE! -- in the form...

EU Food Safety Authority admits glyphosate formulations are "genotoxic"

11/22/2015 - The European Union Food Safety Authority (EFSA) seemingly handed Monsanto a victory on November 12, when it released a report concluding that the company's global bestselling herbicide chemical glyphosate is "unlikely" to be a carcinogen. But a careful reading of the EFSA report actually reveals...

FDA approves experimental GMO salmon for human consumption despite lack of adequate safety studies

11/20/2015 - Just as we predicted, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has brazenly betrayed the public's trust by approving the world's first genetically modified (GM) animal in direct defiance of science – a transgenic salmon branded "AquAdvantage" that has never been proven safe for human consumption...

Safety assessment standards for GMOs do not exist! Scientist offers $10 million challenge to Monsanto

11/18/2015 - One of the brave and the bold, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai is the newest scientist to stand up to Monsanto. Dr. Shiva says he will give Monsanto a $10 million building that he owns in Cambridge, Massachusetts if the corporation can disprove his statement that there are "no safety assessment standards" for genetically...

Nevada Assemblywoman demands safety study of Big Pharma's psych drugs after Oregon shooting

10/10/2015 - Well, it's about time. Less than two weeks after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore says studying the safety of Big Pharma's psych drugs is a necessity. Despite deceptive reports in the mainstream media and lying politicians, the Umpqua shooting...

EU Food Safety Authority can't hide the names of 'experts' who change pesticide risk assessment rules, court decides

8/30/2015 - In what proponents are calling a "landmark" decision in favor of transparency in Europe, the EU Court confirmed in a recent ruling that protecting health and the environment is a higher priority than protecting the confidentiality of experts who have, at times, changed risk rules. As noted in a press...

RFK Jr. speaks out on vaccine mandates & safety at New Jersey state capital in Trenton

7/8/2015 - Robert Kennedy, Jr. has been very vocal across the U.S. opposing bills to end exemptions. Below is a transcript from Kennedy's press conference in Trenton, New Jersey. He focused on the corruption, collusion and malfeasance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was a scathing report...

Berkeley orders mobile phone vendors to warn buyers of radiation risk; industry front group still hiding cancer link from public

6/26/2015 - The progressive California town of Berkeley has passed a new resolution mandating that the safety information typically buried deep within the fine print of mobile phone user manuals instead be emblazoned as a prominent safety warning that consumers will actually notice and acknowledge. The Guardian...

Chemical companies push for law to determine their own safety standards

6/22/2015 - If ever there was an initiative steeped in bias and a deep disregard for a "best for everyone" approach, it's the one taking place among chemical giants such as Dow, DuPont, Honeywell and 3M. These companies, and the people who have ties with them, are actually attempting to thwart state efforts to...

'The Doctors' pits Monsanto shill against food safety activist Jeffrey Smith to debate glyphosate risk

5/22/2015 - The CBS daytime television series The Doctors recently devoted a segment to the groundbreaking International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) report pegging Monsanto's Roundup (glyphosate) herbicide as a probable human carcinogen. Featured on the show was Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT)...

Utility-issued 'smart' meters explode on 5,000 homes after truck rams utility pole

4/28/2015 - Thousands of California residents were left without power recently after their so-called "smart" meters exploded due to an unexpected power surge. According to CBS Sacramento, more than 5,000 homes in the Stockton area were left with blackened, charred, and completely destroyed smart meters after a...

Cell phone distracted teen drivers pose a FAR greater threat to public safety than unvaccinated children

4/16/2015 - Distracted teenage drivers could be responsible for more than half a million auto accidents per year, causing more than 1,600 deaths, suggests a study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The new findings are much higher than previous estimates by the National Highway Traffic Safety...

If CDC can't keep their own labs safe, why should parents trust their child's life in their hands?

4/4/2015 - Public trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be undercut by a recent report concluding that CDC lab staff lack safety training and are fearful of reporting accidents. The panel of experts was appointed by the CDC to review the agency's lab safety practices after a...

Vicious vaccine culture war now being waged against informed, intelligent Americans who seek to protect their children from deadly side effects

3/12/2015 - A critically important, heavily-researched article by Barbara Loe Fisher of the NVIC has been published today. Click here for the original, which we are reprinting below. As this article exhaustively documents and reveals, the vaccine war taking place in America today is actually a "culture war"...

EU lowers safety limit for endocrine-disrupting chemical BPA

2/27/2015 - For the first time in nearly 10 years, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has conducted a reassessment of the safety of bisphenol A (BPA), the plastics chemical that many a study has linked to endocrine disruption, behavioral disorders, heart disease and cancer. But rather than concur with this...

Vaccines cause sudden death, proves document hidden by Big Pharma for two years

1/28/2015 - An Italian court has unearthed a formerly classified document that proves vaccines cause death, and that vaccine companies don't want you to know this. As published on the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) website, a 1,271-page report by British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) reveals that certain...

Vaccine industry intolerant of education: Dr. Sherri Tenpenny targeted for offering vaccine safety knowledge

1/16/2015 - It has come to our attention that one of the world's foremost voices on vaccine science is being targeted by one of the most aggressively hateful "skeptics" groups in the world. Board-certified osteopath Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, a prominent educator and lecturer on the dangers of vaccines, was recently...

Biotech smugglers, frustrated with safety regulations, contaminate India's agriculture with GMOs

12/3/2014 - The rush is on to efficiently feed growing populations around the world, and agriculture is currently undergoing drastic changes and shifts across the globe. For some, agricultural production is already collapsing, as crops continuously fail to ward off diseases and keep pests at bay. As the struggle...

81% of reviewed GM crops were approved without any scientific safety studies, researchers find

11/17/2014 - Nearly all genetically modified (GM) crops approved by governments worldwide received that approval in spite of a complete lack of published, peer-reviewed research supporting their safety, according to a new study published in the risk-assessment journal Environment International. The researchers...

Unnamed man transporting Ebola patient without protective gear ensures 'higher level of safety,' officials claim

10/29/2014 - The official screenplay for Ebola Outbreak: USA Edition has taken a major plot twist, as the second Dallas health worker to contract Ebola was intentionally transferred to Atlanta alongside a mystery man who was not wearing a hazmat suit. When questioned about this, the airline responsible claimed that...

Four signs that you are letting yourself be controlled by other people

10/17/2014 - Who wants to be subtly controlled by other people and larger systems? It seems that lots of people do. Yet, few come right out and admit it. In fact, if you have a desire to be controlled, chances are nearly 100% that you are hiding this desire from yourself. It's buried deep! How do you uncover...

Bangladesh government admits Bt eggplant hasn't passed safety tests and ignores GMO labeling law

9/29/2014 - The director of a government testing agency in Bangladesh that granted approval for genetically modified (GM) Bt eggplant (brinjal), which turned out to be a total failure, exploded recently after being questioned about the safety of the "Frankencrop." Dr. Rafiqul Islam Mondal* from the Bangladesh Agricultural...

USDA rules will allow chicken factories to conduct their own inspections

9/17/2014 - Apparently overburdened with having to police the filthy factory farm industry in accordance with the law, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has decided to simply hand over the inspection reigns to processing plants themselves, according to new reports. Updated "food safety" guidelines will...

FDA admits not knowing about existence of many food chemicals, let alone their safety

8/27/2014 - The explosive introduction of new food additives, in addition to an easing of some federal oversight requirements, has allowed manufacturers to dodge scrutiny from the Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for ensuring the safety of chemicals that are flowing into the food supply. And,...

Ebola vaccine to be manufactured by criminal drug company with felony record; rushed to market with near-zero safety testing

8/11/2014 - While the world of conventional medicine lines up to profit from the Ebola panic, there is no mention anywhere in the mainstream media of the criminal corporation behind the Ebola vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline, now being celebrated by the pro-pharma press, is the same company that also has a proven criminal...

Leaked document of secret trade globalization meetings reveals lack of concern for food safety and public health

8/10/2014 - A draft chapter of the United States-European Union trade agreement that was leaked recently by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) shows that public health and food safety might be at risk, or so says an accompanying analysis of the document. According to the Cornucopia Institute...

Blood thinner drug manufacturer withheld critical safety data from FDA

8/4/2014 - A German drug company has been outed for lying to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European regulators about the safety of a popular blood-thinning medication. A series of papers recently published in The BMJ explain that Boehringer Ingelheim, maker of Pradaxa (dabigatran), withheld key...

Walmart triples spending on food safety after China meat scare

6/28/2014 - In case you missed it, Walmart made global headlines earlier this year after meat sold in its Chinese market tested positive for the DNA of other animals. Meat labeled as "Five Spice" donkey meat apparently contained fox meat as well, sparking a massive investigation into the supply chain from which...

EU law would establish stricter safety rules for nuclear plants

6/21/2014 - The ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster has prompted European officials to set higher standards for their own nuclear programs that will hopefully prevent similar disasters from occurring down the road. The European Union (EU) has reportedly established new safety measures that will improve the resilience...

Monsanto's manipulative tactics revealed after claiming GM soybeans are 'substantially equivalent' to non-GMOs

6/10/2014 - When talking about the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), scientists working for the biotech industry often tout phony science while broadcasting industry spin. This industry spin is often backed by fundamentally incoherent safety tests that are used to hoodwink entire countries into compliance....

Food poisoning sickens 100 people at Food Safety Summit

5/23/2014 - Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fell ill after attending a national Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland, last month. "A couple of our folks indicated that they had experienced symptoms associated with food poisoning...

FOODSNIFFER smartphone app will allow food safety testing by consumers everywhere

5/11/2014 - European researchers are working on developing a smartphone-embedded sensor that would allow consumers to scan food for the presence of contaminants -- from pesticides and allergens to foodborne infectious agents. The sensor is being developed under the name FOODSNIFFER (FOOD Safety at the point-of-Need...

Food poisoning sickens hundreds at Food Safety Summit; top food industry officials affected

5/7/2014 - In what some would say is an ironic moment if ever there was one, more than 100 people attending a Food Safety Summit have recently become ill from food poisoning, of all things. The April 8-10, 2014, conference was held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland, drawing over 1,000 top food...

European Parliament votes to ban industry-connected scientists from Food Safety Authority

5/1/2014 - Due to a rash of conflict-of-interest scandals at the European Food Safety Authority, the European Parliament voted recently on a resolution that would ban scientists who have ties to the agriculture and food industries from being employed by the agency. The resolution urges the EFSA to implement...

FDA study claiming BPA safety 'borders on scientific misconduct,' scientists say

4/21/2014 - Shielding from the public its true allegiances to Big Industry over the people has never been much of a concern at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where public policy is continually crafted in the interests of chemical and pharmaceutical corporations, with blatant disregard and even contempt...

Center for Food Safety sues to force USDA to explain why it approved genetically modified alfalfa

4/12/2014 - A food safety organization has filed suit in federal court in a bid to force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to hand over documents in court that could explain why the federal agency approved GM alfalfa despite several concerns about its environmental safety. The organization, the Washington-based...

Drug companies furiously fight new FDA safety labeling guidelines

3/21/2014 - The makers of generic drugs are vigorously opposing a new proposed rule by the Food and Drug Administration which would mandate that they change prescribing information on their products if they obtain new safety information, a change they claim would subject them to product liability lawsuits. According...

Brazil ignored food safety agency warnings when it approved GM maize in 2007

3/5/2014 - Genetically modified maize seed that creates its own insecticide from a protein gene of E. coli bacteria is highly controversial but is now accepted in Brazil thanks to a former Monsanto lawyer who advises and regulates the flow of GMOs coming into the country. Years ago, in 2007, this GM maize was...

FDA unleashes despotic food safety war targeting organic farms

3/5/2014 - The provisions guiding the infamous Food Safety Modernization Act are slowly starting to come into effect, and many small-scale farmers across the United States are discovering that they are the primary targets of an oppressive new food safety war being waged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

FDA reevaluating safety of pain medications following multiple studies showing major harm

2/19/2014 - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel has rejected a petition filed by Bayer HealthCare to have its over-the-counter (OTC) pain medication Aleve (naproxen) declared to be safer for the heart than competing alternatives like Advil and Motrin (ibuprofen). According to reports, the drug...

The great medical myth of vaccine safety and effectiveness

1/27/2014 - The medical establishment continues to credit the smallpox and polio vaccines for eliminating these diseases. Both vaccines were in fact failures. The National Institutes of Health's funding of nine Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units, with an annual budget of $135 million, provides evidence of continued...

Action alert: Just 2 days left to help stop the FDA's regulatory war on small, local farmers

11/14/2013 - There are only two days left to post your comments to the FDA concerning the agency's desire to place onerous new food safety regulations on small, local farmers (while allowing big agribusiness to conduct business as usual). Click here to read the full alert at Cornucopia.org. This is all about...

For the first time, FDA announces safety rules for pet food manufacturers (and they actually make sense)

10/27/2013 - In the wake of yet another wave of animals deaths caused by tainted pet treats, the FDA has just announced new "Preventive Controls for Food for Animals" rules that would, for the first time, establish basis manufacturing standards for pet food. Click here to read the proposed regulations. Natural...

How Big Pharma hides vaccine dangers from parents

10/16/2013 - Vaccine advocates are notorious for making lofty and outrageous claims about the "proven" safety of vaccines, which they say is reinforced by an extensive track record of rigorous safety testing. But the truth of the matter is that the vaccine industry has taken great pains to make sure that only favorable,...

Pharmaceutical company asks FDA to withdraw approval for its own drugs since agency is too corrupt to protect public safety on its own

10/6/2013 - A major manufacturer of antibiotic and arsenical chicken feed drugs has voluntarily requested that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdraw approval for some of the combination varieties that the company has stopped manufacturing in recent years. In alleged compliance with the FDA's Judicious...

Cell phone radiation safety standards must be strengthened, claim 12 leading public health and consumer safety groups

9/20/2013 - Twelve leading public health and consumer groups are calling on the U.S. government to review the current outdated and inadequate wireless safety standards to better protect both young people and adults from electromagnetic field exposures (EMF) from devices like cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi and...

Take action to block the FDA's imprisonment of free-range chicken

9/18/2013 - In the name of protecting the public against the spread of E. coli and salmonella, the Food Safety Modernization Act was passed into law January 4, 2011. But in reality, the law gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sweeping new powers to regulate and shut down farms of all sizes. Worse, the...

Drug fact boxes proposed to give clear, easy-to-understand drug safety information to consumers

9/17/2013 - Two American researchers propose to create drug fact boxes, similar to nutrition fact boxes on food, for 1,000 prescription drugs. This is to help both patients and doctors to get all the full information they need from a prescription drug in a more simplified form. Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin,...

Perceived neighborhood safety linked to overweight status among urban adolescents

9/3/2013 - Adolescent overweight is a major public health concern because of the immediate and long-term health risks. Many overweight adolescents suffer from hypertension, Type II diabetes, and asthma. As they grow into adulthood, many develop coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, different cancers,...

Five food safety rules you really don't want to break

8/30/2013 - Sharing a meal with family and friends not only allows you to highlight your favorite dishes, but also encourages talking and bonding. In the busy world of today, few other events help bring people together more than food. Keeping those that enjoy the favorites you dish out safe requires a commitment...

New European food safety guidelines affirm methodology, findings of Seralini's GM corn lab rat study

8/22/2013 - After vehemently criticizing a researcher's groundbreaking study and inappropriately calling into question the validity of his rigorous scientific research methods, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has made a surprising about-face. According to new reports, the agency recently vindicated Professor...

How consistent hospital error is having a deadly effect on the healthcare system

7/2/2013 - A recent survey of hospitals found that infections, surgical errors and other medical harm contribute to the deaths of about 180,000 patients a year. The projections by Consumer Reports magazine were based on a 2010 report by the Department of Health and Human Resources. In addition to the deaths,...

Federal chemical safety law attempts to block states from passing their own chemical regulations that protect families

6/30/2013 - Just prior to his recent death, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) introduced new legislation to reform the inherently flawed Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA), an atrocious piece of legislation that over the years has allowed an untold number of toxic chemicals to flood the consumer products...

Monsanto hypocrisy: GMOs supposedly identical to natural crops on safety, but unique for patent enforcement

6/26/2013 - The biotechnology industry has pulled a fast one with regards to the legitimacy of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Straddling both sides of the fence, multinational corporations like Monsanto continually claim that their GM monstrosities are "substantially equivalent" to natural crops when it...

Consumer Alert: Secret trade agreements threaten food safety, subvert democracy

6/18/2013 - If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood, beef or chicken products that don't meet even basic U.S. food safety standards. Under two new trade agreements, currently in negotiation, the U.S. Food and Drug...

Internet monitoring system to stalk social media users who question safety of vaccines

5/31/2013 - If you post articles to your Facebook wall that warn others about the dangers of vaccines, or Tweet links to the latest studies tying vaccines to autism through Twitter, the vaccine pushers of the world could soon know about it in real time. According to new reports, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed...

Triclosan in antibacterial soaps, toothpaste has never received safety approval from FDA

5/12/2013 - It is added to hundreds of consumer products ranging from hand soaps and body washes to toothpastes and even children's toys, but it has never received formal safety approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And even though the chemical industry claims that the antibacterial chemical...

FDA finally gets around to conducting safety review on toxic antibacterial chemical triclosan, already in consumer products for four decades

5/8/2013 - After more than 40 years of complete inaction in evaluating the potential side effects of the antibacterial chemical triclosan, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally getting around to conducting a review of this pervasive chemical additive, which is now found in more than 75 percent...

FDA requests $300 million war chest to implement onerous new food safety regulations against farmers, commercial food growers

4/15/2013 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested nearly $300 million in additional agency funding from Congress in order to implement the oppressive tenets of the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), which will stifle American farmers and commercial food growers and potentially put...

Russia refuses to import any more U.S. meat due to safety concerns over ractopamine

2/27/2013 - On December 7, 2012, in a move that will jeopardize more than $500 million a year in exports of U.S. beef and pork to Russia, all American meat supplies to Russia have been banned. Russia claims that the reason for the ban was the presence of the drug ractopamine in meats imported from the U.S. Whereas,...

Secret government documents reveal vaccines to be a total hoax

1/8/2013 - If you have children, you are more than likely already aware of the official U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "Immunization Schedules," which today recommend an astounding 29 vaccines be given between birth and six years of age, including yearly flu shots, as well as another five...

FDA quietly increases allowed radiation doses of meats for human consumption

12/7/2012 - Rather than actually take the time to address the root causes of meat and poultry contamination, which more often than not are a direct result of outrageously unsanitary factory farming practices (https://www.naturalnews.com/025716_antibiotic_animals_antibiotics.html), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Emergency first aid checklist: Herbs, medicines and tools for holistic medical safety in any crisis

10/31/2012 - In the aftermath of superstorm Sandy, which has devastated many parts of the East coast, we've been receiving a flood of calls and emails asking about emergency preparedness items for first aid and natural medicine. Here, I've put together a quick checklist of things you'll want to acquire (or grow)...

Web of deception: GMO scientific safety 'experts' have close ties to Big Tobacco

10/11/2012 - Advocates for genetically modified foods (we are most definitely not on that list) harp continually about how safe and how good for us they are. What we can't understand is that if that were true - and it's not - why do industry advocates obfuscate, cover up and otherwise try to taint so-called "scientific...

Lack of studies, questionable safety of full body airport x-rays continue to raise alarm

8/19/2012 - A dearth of studies, along with lingering questions about their safety are leading more U.S. passengers to opt out of walking through powerful backscatter X-ray machines used by Transportation Security Administration officials at some airport checkpoints. Instead, more passengers are choosing the...

Action Alert - Institute of Medicine accepting public comment on proposed vaccine safety study

7/24/2012 - The Institute of Medicine (IoM), an organization under the umbrella of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is currently in the process of putting together an assessment on the health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children. And part of this process includes accepting public comments...

Before vaccinating your children, demand your doctor sign this form

5/29/2012 - If you were to ask the average pediatrician practicing in America today what he or she thinks about childhood vaccinations, the likely response you would get would be that vaccines are safe and effective, and that their health benefits far outweigh any potential risks. But would these same pediatricians...

Presidential campaign theme of 2012: More jobs and more zombies to work them

5/18/2012 - With increasing chemicals in food, medicine, and cosmetics, America is breeding zombies who go to work and pay taxes, but offer nothing to evolution, free thinking, or creative arts. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continuously approves and furthers the toxification of food and water...

FDA mandates new safety warnings for statin drugs due to risks of memory loss, diabetes and muscle pain

3/3/2012 - On February 28, federal health officials added new safety alerts to the prescribing information for statin drugs, citing increased risks of memory loss, diabetes and muscle pain. It is the first time the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially linked statins to cognitive problems...

The great government hoax of public safety

3/1/2012 - As the tyranny of destructive government envelops our once-free society, have you noticed how oppression, censorship and government aggression against the people is always defended as somehow protecting public safety? Consider these astonishing contradictions: • The government claims that...

Monsanto: 'There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans'

1/13/2012 6:24:25 PM - There is a growing body of scientific evidence which proves that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are inherently different from natural organisms, including the way the body processes them, as well as how the immune system responds to them. But Monsanto, the largest purveyor of GMOs in the world,...

Institute of medicine safety report confirms vaccine dangers

12/6/2011 - For years natural health experts have been battling mainstream medical officials over the existence of vaccine dangers, but a new safety report by the Institute of Medicine settles the argument; they reveal that a relationship exists between vaccine use and adverse health effects. The comprehensive...

TSA refuses to fulfill promise to conduct independent safety investigation of naked body scanners

11/19/2011 - Not even a month after promising to conduct a legitimate, independent study on the safety of the illegal naked body scanners used in airports across the US, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole is now saying that such a measure is unnecessary, and that it may not happen...

NaturalNews issues consumer alert about Adya Clarity, imported as battery acid and sold for internal consumption

10/28/2011 - A product called Adya Clarity has been sweeping across the natural health community in the last year or so. It has been sold with recommendations for internal use -- taking "super shots" -- and often accompanied by wide-ranging claims that it treats cancer, kidney stones, hormone regulation, arthritis,...

The epidemic of medical child abuse - and what can be done about it

8/26/2011 - The primary purpose of this article is to encourage a stronger commitment from doctors and parents to consider using safer medical care for infants and children FIRST before resorting to more dangerous treatments. One would hope and assume that doctors and parents would have a natural inclination to...

Food safety false flag? USDA waited for people to die before recalling ground turkey it knew was contaminated

8/10/2011 - Adding yet more evidence to the proof that the U.S. government maliciously promotes dangerous food borne illness outbreaks rather than trying to prevent them, evidence has emerged today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture knew ground turkey produced by Cargill was widely contaminated with salmonella,...

Exposed documents reveal Napolitano, TSA lied about safety of cancer-causing naked body scanners

6/28/2011 - Remember when Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano claimed back in 2010 that the US Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) naked body scanners had been proven safe by research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (http://epic.org/privacy/backscatter/USAToday.pdf)?...

UK food board suddenly reverses position, approves cloned food without labels despite lack of safety studies

6/4/2011 - In a shocking reversal of its previous position on the matter, the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA), which is supposed to be a consumer watchdog group that works on behalf of citizen interests, has arbitrarily decided that cloned animal food is safe, and that it can be sold without proper labeling. Just...

Danish food safety laws ban products containing added vitamins, allege they are threat to public health

6/2/2011 - So-called food safety laws enacted in Denmark back in 2004 have restricted the sale of any food products that contain added vitamins and minerals, and all on the outlandish premise that such nutrients are a threat to public health. And just recently, the country banned Marmite, a popular food spread...

Fraudulent organics from China spell safety hazards for U.S. consumers

5/31/2011 - Three years ago, Chinese baby formula tainted with Melamine caused the death of six infants and over 300,000 serious injuries. After initially suppressing the information, the Chinese government made a grand gesture of eradicating the problem. The company was shut down. Some executives were even put...

TSA backscatter radiation safety tests were rigged

5/17/2011 - It can now be revealed by NaturalNews that the TSA faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about the safety of such devices. As evidenced by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the federal government simply fakes whatever documents,...

With superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the truth comes out about the FDA Food Safety Bill

4/17/2011 - Remember all the hubbub about the S.510 "Food Safety Bill" and how it would make your food safe to eat? Well, it turns out those expanded FDA powers do absolutely nothing to even address the safety of fresh meat products, and yet new research reveals that nearly half of all fresh meat and poultry products...

Published review highlights lack of proper GMO safety studies in scientific journals

4/4/2011 - A recent study published in the journal Environment International has found that within the body of published literature on genetically-modified organisms (GMO), there exists almost an equal number of both studies suggesting they are safe and identical to natural varieties, and studies suggesting they...

Press conference held on steps of U.S. Supreme Court regarding the future of vaccine safety

3/27/2011 - Beneath the words "Equal Justice Under Law" a press conference was held Thursday, March 3, 2011 on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the decision in the matter of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. In a blow to thousands of families damaged by vaccines, the High Court struck down the right to sue for...

TSA to retest airport body scanners after reports expose extreme radiation safety violations

3/22/2011 - After repeatedly refusing to publicly release safety reports for its airport X-ray machines and naked body scanners -- even after lawmakers ordered their release -- the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now says that the same reports are flawed anyway (https://www.naturalnews.com/031321_naked_body_scanners_safety.html)....

TSA refusal to release body scanner safety reports has many crying foul

2/14/2011 - Two months after lawmakers ordered the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to release safety reports about the levels of radiation being emitted by baggage X-ray machines, naked body scanners, and other airport security equipment, the agency has yet to make this information public. The...

USDA deregulates GE alfalfa; opens door to new era of widespread genetic pollution of crops

1/28/2011 - After months of pretending to review public feedback on the issue of GE alfalfa, the USDA has announced a surprise lifting of all restrictions on the genetically engineered crop, effectively allowing anyone to plant GE alfalfa anywhere, without any restriction. This is the USDA's surrender to Monsanto,...

Food safety hypocrisy is in your face

1/16/2011 - The proposed Food Safety Bill threatens our access to wholesome organic foods. It also threatens livelihoods of dedicated small farm and dairy people who care about food quality. And most of you know it grants the FDA and USDA more power, which most of you also know hasn`t proved beneficial to us average...

How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy American jobs, farms and local foods

1/12/2011 - How will the new Food Safety Modernization Act actually impact small, local farmers who grow food for CSA's, local restaurants and grocers? To find out, I took a road trip to Texas and interviewed several small, local farmers to ask them, face to face, how the S.510 Food Safety Modernization Act would...

Food safety bill invokes Codex harmonization and grants FDA authority to police food safety of foreign nations

12/29/2010 - Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill -- especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this bill, the more surreal it all becomes. For example, did you know there's a global FDA power grab agenda hidden in the Food Safety Modernization...

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths

12/28/2010 - The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even...

Congress sticks it to U.S. farmers with passage of food safety bill that will actually cause fresh produce to be more dangerous

12/22/2010 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2751 yesterday with a 216 to 144 vote (yes, many members of the House did not even vote). The so-called Food Safety Modernization Act now heads to the President to be signed into law. When witnessing such a moment in history when the federal government...

S 510 Fake Food Safety bill passed by Senate in late-night sneak attack on small farmers and food freedom

12/20/2010 - The infamous S.510 "food food safety bill" was passed by the US Senate last night in a sneaky, last minute voice vote. All Senators voted for it, Republicans and Democrats alike. Not a single U.S. Senator -- not even Coburn -- objected to its passage. With this vote, the US Senate now sends the bill...

FDA reconsidering safety of mercury fillings, but panel may be rigged from the start

12/15/2010 - Mercury fillings are one of the greatest scams in the history of dentistry. They're intentionally and misleadingly named "silver fillings" so that people don't realize they're made of mercury, and when installed in teeth, they release mercury vapor every time a person chews on them (see video link below)....

Mainstream media agrees that food safety bill will do nothing to improve food safety

12/11/2010 - A recent editorial in Forbes magazine online slams the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act" for being a huge waste of taxpayer money, and an effort that will do absolutely nothing to actually improve food safety. What it will do, says the article, is run small-...

Urgent: Democrats attempting to pass Food Safety Act by hiding it inside appropriations bill HR 3082

12/8/2010 - In a last-ditch effort to resurrect S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, House Democrats are effectively hiding approval of the bill inside another bill -- HR 3082, an appropriations bill meant to fund the Department of Veterans Affairs. Health freedom attorney Ralph Fucetola has been monitoring...

S 510 Food Safety bill now dead in the water due to blue slip mistake

12/1/2010 - It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively "new taxes" into the bill, and according to the U.S. Constitution, only the House of Representatives can initiate legislation requiring new taxes. Thus,...

List of U.S. Senators who voted for S 510 Food Safety Act

11/30/2010 - Senate Bill S 510 - the "Food Safety Modernization Act" - was passed by the U.S. Senate today (https://www.naturalnews.com/030576_Food_Safety_S_510.html). If signed into law, it would unleash a new era of FDA tyranny over farmers, food producers and even small family farms, many of which already exceed...

Despite massive protests, US Senate passes S 510 Food Safety Bill

11/30/2010 - The new Food Tyranny Act -- called the "Food Safety Modernization Act" in the U.S. Senate -- has been passed by the senate today. It would give the FDA vast new powers to criminalize and imprison farmers and food producers while doing absolutely nothing to address to real root of the food contamination...

Senate delays S 510 food safety bill vote until Tuesday

11/29/2010 - Slammed by a barrage of phone calls and emails today that the mainstream media isn't even reporting, the U.S. Senate today has decided to postpone their vote on S.510 -- the Food Safety Modernization Act -- until Tuesday morning. Internet reports that S.510 has already passed are incorrect. The final...

Urgent call for action, last chance to defeat S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act

11/29/2010 - "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious -- makes you so sick at heart -- that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it...

US Senate debate on S.510 Food Safety bill could extend into the weekend

11/18/2010 - At 10:30 today, the U.S. Senate picks up its debate on the issue of S.510, the "Food Safety and Modernization Act" which is really a wolf in sheep's clothing. It would grant the FDA new, tyrannical powers that could be used to criminalize backyard gardening, outlaw saving seeds, imprison people who...

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

11/16/2010 - Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate...

Merck Sponsored Study Returns Dubious Gardasil Autoimmune Safety Results

10/25/2010 - A new Merck funded study has concluded that Merck's controversial Gardasil HPV vaccine poses no risk for developing autoimmune conditions. The conclusions come as no surprise to those who have seen self-serving results from previous Merck funded studies, many of which were later proven false or misleading....

GE salmon? Are you out of your minds?

10/3/2010 - Has the FDA gone completely mad? Why are they trying to open the flood gates to genetically engineered (GE) salmon -- a move that will go down in history as one of the most asinine and dangerous ever made by our government? What’s it going to take for them to actually start protecting public health?...

Supreme Court rules against ban on GMO alfalfa, but requires complete safety study first

8/8/2010 - The battle continues as agri-giant Monsanto pushes to have its genetically-modified (GM) alfalfa approved for use in the U.S. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Monsanto by ruling against a lower court's nationwide ban on the GM alfalfa; however, the court is requiring the U.S. Department of...

Companies may soon be required to prove chemical safety before use

8/6/2010 - There is a new piece of legislation before Congress that will require chemical manufacturers to prove that an industrial chemical is safe before they can use it in products. The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 will grant more power to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate chemicals...

Monsanto: The world's poster child for corporate manipulation and deceit

7/30/2010 - At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a world with 100...

Sunscreen Safety and Efficacy Called into Question

7/1/2010 - Most experts agree people should use sunscreens to protect their skin from the sun, but there is wide disagreement on how well they actually work. In addition, other than sunburn prevention, little is known about their safety. The Food and Drug Administration's 2007 sunscreen safety regulations draft...

Dirty, contaminated beef fed to children through school lunch programs

6/1/2010 - The USDA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a shocking report (http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/24601-08-KC.pdf) about the condition of the nation's industrial meat supply. It turns out that a lot of the U.S. meat supply is tainted with veterinary drugs, pesticides and heavy metals. According...

Gaia Herbs achieves industry breakthrough in herb potency, safety and traceability

5/19/2010 - I'm a big fan of herbal products, but have you ever wondered whether the ingredients that are supposed to be in those products are actually present in their correct potency? Did you ever wonder where the herbs really came from? As you'll discover here, one company has suddenly and dramatically changed...

Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Safety Studies Investigated for Fraud

4/12/2010 - One of the central figures in the Center for Disease Control`s (CDC) claims about vaccine safety is reported to be under investigation by Danish police after almost $2 million turned up missing that was supposed to have been spent on research. Dr. Poul Thorsen, one of the researchers involved in two...

Vaccine Safety Appeal Goes to the Supreme Court

3/14/2010 - On the first of March, the United States Supreme Court accepted the appeal of parents who say that vaccines can cause serious health problems. The case involves the parents of Hannah Bruesewitz of Pennsylvania and began in 1992, when the Congressional judicial forum for vaccine safety heard the case...

Coalition for Vaccine Safety Calls for Congressional Hearings

3/9/2010 - In a letter dated February 23 and addressed to the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Coalition for Vaccine Safety (CVS) calls for congressional hearings to investigate and review the role of the Health and Human Services (HHS) department and its constituent agencies...

Cold Case Files - Paxil Birth Defects

3/4/2010 - Almost like an episode of the TV show, Cold Case Files, the first Paxil birth defect trial was dominated by a story about what happened to the rat pups that died around 1979 and1980, involved in a study in which Paxil was being tested on pregnant female rats. The animal studies giving Paxil to rats...

Toyota's consumer safety problems are dwarfed by body count of Big Pharma's deadly drugs

2/23/2010 - Even as Toyota now finds itself the target of an increasingly hyped-up inquisition about "public safety," skeptical consumers are asking the commonsense question: If public safety is so important, then why isn't Congress asking about the dangers of Big Pharma's deadly drugs? Toyota's problems with...

$10,000 reward offered for scientific proof of H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness

1/20/2010 - In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has publicly offered a $10,000 reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any of the FDA-approved H1N1 vaccines being offered to Americans...

FDA continues world colonization, opens another international facility in Mexico

12/30/2009 - In its supposed efforts to improve food safety, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the opening of its third Latin American facility located in Mexico City. Since an increasing quantity of fruits, vegetables, and medical devices are being imported into the U.S. from Mexico,...

Urge Congress to Amend SB 510 to Protect Local Farms

11/25/2009 - Senate Bill 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, is scheduled for committee vote on Wednesday, November 18, and provisions to protect small-scale organic and family farms are missing from the bill. The Cornucopia Institute is urging all concerned citizens to contact their Senators immediately...

Consumer health group calls for scientific inquiry into safety of cervical cancer vaccines

10/11/2009 - Following the recent death of a UK teen after receiving the HPV vaccine (https://www.naturalnews.com/027151_cancer_cervical_cancer_Natalie_Morton.html), and serious brain damage in another teen vaccine recipient (https://www.naturalnews.com/027188_NaturalNews_cancer_cervical_cancer.html), the Alliance...

Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law

10/9/2009 - Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of New York State, the lawsuit charges that the FDA...

"Mock-up" pandemic vaccines bypass genuine safety testing, turning population into guinea pigs

9/4/2009 - Emails and information circulating on the 'net point to a rumor that the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a pandemic virus into the population via a "mock-up" vaccine. One story cites a WHO announcement (http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_safety_vaccines_20090805/en/index.html)...

Drug Approvals in Canada Put Speed Ahead of Public Safety

7/17/2009 - A recent report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives criticizes Health Canada's drug safety regulations, claiming that Canadians are at risk due to speedy approval procedures and negligent safety profiling once the drugs are on the market. "In Canada 3-4% of drugs approved will...

Food Safety Bill HR 2749 Requires Immediate Opposition

6/23/2009 - The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has announced the immediate need to oppose a new and integrated form of the many food safety bills that have been announced in recent months as potential candidate food safety bills. HR 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, is an aggregated version of...

Food Freedom is under Assault, H.R. 759 Worse than H.R. 875

4/24/2009 - Salmonella outbreaks, food contamination, and other regulatory deficiencies over the nation's food supply during the past several years have led to a barrage of proposed legislation aimed at improving food safety. H.R. 875, H.R. 759, and H.R. 1332, are three major bills that have been proposed in recent...

Stop Federal Takeover of Food Regulation in H.R. 875

3/11/2009 - The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund recently reported the unveiling of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (H.R. 875) on Feb. 4, 2009, by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to both the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Committee on Agriculture. Cosponsored by 36 other Congressmen,...

Vaccines as Biological Weapons? Live Avian Flu Virus Placed in Baxter Vaccine Materials Sent to 18 Countries

3/3/2009 - There's a popular medical thriller novel in which a global pandemic is intentionally set off by an evil plot designed to reduce the human population. In the book, a nefarious drug company inserts live avian flu viruses into vaccine materials that are distributed to countries around the world to be injected...

Ending the Atrocities of the FDA; Life Extension Urges Immediate Petition Action for Health Freedom

2/4/2009 - What follows is a call-to-action article by William Faloon, founder of the Life Extension Foundation (www.LEF.org). NaturalNews and LEF are working together to publish this information as widely as possible, calling for urgent action to end the FDA's tyranny against the American people and the health...

Confessions of a pharmacist: What Big Pharma Won't Tell You about Prescription Drug Safety (Book Review)

1/6/2009 - Pharmacists are walking encyclopedias of knowledge about the dangers of drugs, but most of them follow a pro-Pharma agenda, so they never reveal the deadly truth about how dangerous these drugs can really be to your health. There's only one pharmacist I've ever met who dares to think outside the...

FDA Ignores the Pet Food Safety Deadline

12/13/2008 - The FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) was signed into law last year requiring the FDA to make improvements on food safety for people and pets. The first deadline required by the Amendments Act law, requiring an Early Warning and Notification System during a pet food recall, has come and gone seemingly ignored...

The Supreme Court Betrays the Public on Medtronic Preemption Case (transcript)

11/6/2008 - This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger reporting for www.NaturalNews.com . This article is a transcript of the audio from Health Ranger Report #11, available here: https://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Today, I'm bringing you some rather disturbing news about the Supreme Court's decision...

Veterinary Medical Association Meeting Shows Pet Safety Is Not a Priority

11/1/2008 - Recently the AMVA (American Veterinary Medical Association) held its annual meeting; reports of the topics discussed are discouraging. Per an article reported in MedicalNewsToday.com several veterinary speakers clearly continue to support major pet food manufacturers. Dr. Sally C. Perea a veterinarian...

America's Food Safety System on Verge of Breakdown, Warns Report

10/15/2008 - The United States' food safety system is in crisis, with a confusing patchwork of regulations, authority and a dire lack of funding, according to a report released by the Trust for America's Health. "One in four Americans is sickened by food-borne illnesses each year," said Jeffrey Levi, the organization's...

New Special Report: How to Build Your Financial Safety Net

10/9/2008 - On the heels of the worst financial disaster to emerge since the Great Depression, NaturalNews has released an online special report entitled How to Build Your Financial Safety Net: Twelve Ways to Achieve Prosperity During (and After) the Global Financial Crisis. The special report is available here:...

Position Child Safety Seats in Center of Back Seat to Reduce Risk of Injury by 43 Percent

9/27/2008 - Children whose car seats are positioned in the middle of the back seat are 43 percent less likely to be injured in the incident of a car crash than children whose car seats are positioned on the side of the car, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Children's...

U.S. and China Announce Food Safety Progress for Pet Food?

9/13/2008 - The U.S. Health and Human Services announced, on June 18, 2008, progress between China and the U.S. stating, "strong and sustained cooperation by both nations to strengthen the safety of food products exported to the United States from China." The news release mentions a 'cooperative mechanism' between...

When It Comes to Pet Food Safety Reform, the FDA Is Full of Excuses

8/27/2008 - You are well aware of the pet food recall of 2007. You are well aware that due to that recall thousands of pets died, and thousands more became ill. You are probably aware that the FDA held a public meeting on May 13, 2008 to seek input from stakeholder groups –- including consumers –- for the future...

Children as Big Pharma Guinea Pigs: 98 Percent of Drug Trials on Children Have no Safety Checks

8/18/2008 - Fewer than 2 percent of drug trials conducted on children have independent safety advisory boards, a review published in the journal Acta Paediatrica has found. Researchers from Nottingham University reviewed reports on 739 international drug trials that had been published between 1996 and 2002....

FDA Leaps from Tomatoes to Peppers in Desperate, Fumbling Fiasco of Failed Food Safety over Salmonella

7/11/2008 - Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged destruction of tens of millions of dollars of perfectly good tomatoes, this confused, bewildered agency admits that tomatoes may not have been the problem after all, and...

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