Less than a month ago, Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. issued a recall of theri Sportmix dog food due to unsafe aflatoxin levels. The recall has now been expanded by Midwestern to include all dog and cat food products crafted in their Chickasha Operations Facility with corn. The recalled products were…
Type 1 Diabetes insulin pump recalled, responsible for 2,000 injuries and 1 death
Today’s recall alert isn’t toxin or chemical related, but it is health related, and therefore important. A Class I recall, the most serious of all U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalls, has been issued for Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps. These…
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Lowe’s Is Dropping Certain Kinds of Paint Stripper Blamed for Cancer Deaths
Products containing chemicals linked to miscarriages, that are harmful to fetuses, and have caused at least 50 deaths will finally be removed from the shelves of Lowe’s stores across the country. Lowe’s recently announced they will no longer carry paint strippers that…
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Widely-Reported Study on Fish and Microbeads Might Have Been Faked
In 2016, news of the immediate dangers of microbeads captured headlines across the nation. The damning study by Uppsala University researchers Oona Lönnstedt and Peter Eklöv was published in hundreds of papers, and all across the web. It even appeared in the…
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EPA Decides Not To Ban A Pesticide, Despite Its Own Evidence Of Risk
There are bad decisions, and then there are decisions so baffling they defy logic to the point you can’t believe what you’re actually reading or seeing. The latest decision by the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) would fall into the latter category. Despite…
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EPA Targeting Dangerous Household Chemical
We’ve had Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) highlighted for a while now as a Red Light Ingredient, and it seems like the Environmental Protection Agency is catching on too. Toluene Diisocyanate is a chemical “used to manufacture household products like coatings, elastomers, adhesives and…
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The Dirty Truth About Antibacterial Soaps
While advancements in science and technology improve many of the products we have used for years, sometimes we’re better off just using the tried and true method. Case in point, antibacterial soaps. For the last 10 years or so, antibacterial soaps have…
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Study: California Fire Retardant Ban Cuts Toxins
An important decision made a little over 10 years ago by the state of California is paying off in a big way for humans and wildlife living in and around the San Francisco Bay area. In 2003 California began regulating chemicals called…
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