The Defense Department has dragged its feet on protecting service personnel from “forever chemicals” at military installations and isn’t doing enough to track health effects from exposure to the toxic compounds, according to an internal audit. Officials have taken steps to find and clean groundwater contaminated with firefighting foam containing PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl… Read More »
What’s in your hand sanitizer? It better not be methanol. (Photo: Getty) Getty These hand sanitizers may not clean your hands very well, and oh they could kill you. Otherwise, no problems, right? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about nine different hand sanitizer products manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de… Read More »
Richard Peltier, PhD, assistant professor, environmental health sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dyron Hamlin, chemical engineer, GHD. “Summary of Air Sampling,” city of Smyrna, GA, Sept. 16, 2019. “Summary of Air Sampling,” city of Willowbrook, IL, February 2019. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: “Ethylene Oxide, Carcinogenic Dose-Response Assessment,” June 28, 2019. Lucy Fraiser, PhD, principal/owner,… Read More »
This story is jointly reported by Brenda Goodman of WebMD and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News. July 25, 2019 — Twilight was falling, but the heat would not let up. Cars packed the tiny parking lot for the historic red brick building that sits on a corner of North Church Lane, between Smyrna and… Read More »
Commentary by Ronnie Cummins, International Director of Organic Consumers Association “The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 19431 Welcome to Degeneration Nation 2019. The frightening truth is that genetically engineered foods and crops, toxic chemicals and factory farms — the unholy trinity of industrial food and farming — are undermining our… Read More »