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FDA Proposes Banning Food Additive BVO

brominated vegetable oil

Following California’s lead, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to ban the food additive brominated vegetable oil (BVO). Toxicology studies conducted in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) led to the FDA concluding that BVO is “no longer safe” due largely in part to its ability to harm thyroid […]

Agricultural Pesticide Found in 80 Percent of Americans Tested

spraying toxic pesticide on crops

A new study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology reported the detection of chlormequat chloride—an agricultural pesticide known to have developmental and reproductive toxicity—in the U.S. population and food supplies. Chlormequat was detected in 80 percent of urine samples tested.1 Currently in the United States, chlormequat is only permitted for use […]

Microplastics in Products Harm Human Health and the Environment

eating microplastics

The term “microplastics” is one that most people likely rarely heard 20 years ago. Now it’s one that is commonly seen in news headlines as researchers recognize the many ways these tiny plastics have infiltrated our ecosystem and our bloodstreams. Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that are byproducts of synthetic polymers. The plastics have […]

New Bat Virus Identified in Thailand

flying bats

Eco-Health Alliance, the New York-based non-profit that used U.S. government money to fund gain- of-function research on coronaviruses in bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), research that has been implicated in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, recently announced that a new virus has been identified in bats in Thailand.1 2 Dr. Peter […]

Recalls of U.S. Pharmaceutical Products Highest in Decade

FDA approved

Pharmaceutical product recalls in the United States are projected to reach the highest they have been in more than a decade, according to Sedgwick’s Quarterly Recall Index Report.1 Although the number of pharmaceutical product recalls in the U.S. decreased by 20.7 percent from the second quarter to the third quarter in 2023, the pharmaceutical industry […]

CDC Recommends Mask Wearing Despite Evidence They Do Not Work and May Cause Harm

woman wearing mask

The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH is recommending that Americans wear masks to help protect against respiratory diseases such as RSV, COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza that federal health officials say are on the rise again.1 Dr. Cohen advised: To protect yourself and your family this […]

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