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11/23/2017 / By David Armstrong

The Health Ranger asks: Why isn’t the FDA testing foods for heavy metals and publishing the results?

As he was finalizing the expansion of his new food science laboratory recently, Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, increasingly wondered, “Hey, how come the FDA isn’t testing for heavy metals in foods and then telling the American people what they found?” It’s a legitimate question, Adams insisted in a recent podcast, and […]

05/29/2017 / By Russel Davis

FDA extends public comment period on genetically engineered foods and animals… post your comments here

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended its Request for Comment period on genome edited foods and animals. The move aims to continue gaining public input on the draft revised guidance about the agency’s stance on human and animal foods derived from plants that have undergone genome editing. The federal agency has also extended the comment period for the draft guidance regarding the […]

05/17/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

FDA to push pro-GMO ads paid by taxpayers, even as consumers overwhelmingly reject Frankenfoods

It is common knowledge that Monsanto spends an inordinate amount of money trying to convince people that its toxic pesticides and GMO seeds are not harmful despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Now, you get to help pay for a pro-GMO campaign whether you want to or not thanks to a questionable new measure […]

04/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Senators ask FDA to ban cancer-causing chemical from bath products

Your shampoo could be harming you. The substance 1,4-dioxane, is a carcinogen that’s commonly found in personal care products that create suds, such as in shampoos, hand soaps, and shower gels. According to the Environmental Working Group, at least 8,000 products contain 1,4-dioxane. In spite of this, companies are not required by the U.S. Food […]

04/06/2017 / By Tracey Watson

USDA scrubs plan to test foods for dangerous levels of Monsanto’s glyphosate

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced in March 2015 that glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, is a probable human carcinogen (i.e. it is likely to cause cancer in humans). Agencies around the world, including in Canada and Europe, took the warning seriously and started taking steps […]

03/05/2017 / By Daniel Barker

EPA and FDA give go ahead for 3 types of GMO potatoes… planting begins this year

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have given permission to Idaho-based agribusiness giant J.R. Simplot Co. to begin the spring planting and fall harvesting of three different types of genetically modified potatoes. Simplot says that the varieties are genetically engineered to resist the pathogen associated with late blight, the […]

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