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FDA approves three natural food dyes amid push to eliminate synthetics

3 days ago | thenewlede.org | Brian Bienkowski

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved three new natural food dyes, making good on a promise to push for a phaseout of synthetic dyes in food.
Even long after close of polluting paper mill, study finds area residents with high levels of toxins in their blood

6 days ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

Residents of a Michigan community whose drinking water was polluted with toxic chemicals from a long-shuttered paper mill continue to have high levels of the compounds in their bodies, even years after the community switched to alternate water supplies, according to a new study.
Is there PFAS in your pint?

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Brian Bienkowski

The only thing hazier than your favorite IPA might be the chemicals lurking in it. Many popular beers — from both small breweries to large domestic and international ones — contain types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) linked to cancer and other health problems, according to a new study published in Environmental Science and Technology that looked at PFAS in 94 samples of beer.
Formaldehyde lurks in lotions, other products popular with Black and Latina women

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Shannon Kelleher

A main ingredient in embalming fluid may be hiding in your body lotion. In an analysis of more than 1,100 products used over the course of a week by 70 Black and Latina women in South Los Angeles, over half reported using products that researchers found contained formaldehyde or preservatives that release the toxic chemical.
Another PFAS-containing pesticide headed for US registration

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Brian Bienkowski

US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic chemicals, stoking concerns of new risks for farms across the country.
Postcard from California: Despite strict regulations, the state still has the nation’s dirtiest air

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

In the years after World War II, the smog in Los Angeles was so thick that at times people could see no farther than three blocks. Despite efforts to limit emissions from power plants and oil refineries, the eye-burning, lung-choking blanket of smog remained. Then, in the 1950s, groundbreaking research by a biochemistry professor at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Arie Haagen-Smit, determined that the main culprit was automobile exhaust.
Mexico's act of resistance over GM corn

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Timothy WiseOn March 17, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo signed into law a constitutional reform banning the cultivation of genetically modified corn. The action followed a December ruling by a trade tribunal, under the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, in favor of a US complaint that Mexico’s 2023 presidential decree, with broad restrictions on the consumption of GM corn, constituted an unfair trade practice by prohibiting the use of GM corn in tortillas.
Why is Bayer seeking legal impunity in US over glyphosate?

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Hans van Scharen and Nina Holland, Corporate Europe ObservatoryGerman agrochemical company Bayer — last week holding its annual shareholders meeting (AGM) – should not be seeking legal impunity. Nor should any other corporation. In an open letter to Bayer’s shareholders, over 100 organizations from the EU, US and around the world warned them that Bayer is doing precisely that.
Industry braces for change as feds target synthetic food dyes

2 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Brian Bienkowski

Would you eat a beet-flavored gummy? How about a hint of carrot in your soda?
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