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U.S. law leaves consumers vulnerable to poisoning from thousands of unregulated chemicals in regular household products, warns Kathleen Schuler, a contributing author to the report "The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act."
U.S. consumers left defenseless against toxic chemicals in consumer products
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US opposes honest labeling of GMO foods:
The official U.S. position on genetically-modified organisms, also known as GMs or GMOs, is that there is no difference between them and natural organisms. Crafted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the position set forth to the Codex Alimentarius Committee on the issue goes even further to suggest that no country should be able to require mandatory GMO labeling on food items, even though science shows that GMOs act differently in the body than do natural organisms and are a threat to health.
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#1 - Fri Jul 9, 2010 11:29 AM EDTThis isn't news. Nixon sold us out years ago. After all, it was cheaper and easier to cure cancer than to replace all the cheap toxic chemicals used in manufacturing everyday.
Capitalism over lives, the true American way.
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