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Breast Cancer is Preventable

Myth #1: Breast Cancer is not preventable The Truth: Up to 98% of breast cancer... more

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Tourists bring nuclear waste souvenirs back to China

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Irradiation 'not the solution' to food-borne illness

Center for Food Safety calls FDA approval of irradiation of spinach and lettuce a false solution to unsanitary practices of industrial agriculture.

Washington, D.C. (August 21, 2008) - The FDA announced today that it will allow food producers to start irradiating fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce in an attempt to kill E. coli O157:H7 and other bacteria that cause food-borne illnesses, despite scientific and consumer concerns about the use of irradiation. The move comes in response to a petition filed by The National Food Processors Association, a trade group representing major food companies.

"Irradiation is not the solution to food-borne illness," said Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst at the Center for Food Safety. "In fact, it serves to distract attention from the unsanitary conditions of industrial agriculture that create the problem in the first place."

In 2006, California spinach contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 sickened over 200 people, and killed three. A field investigation by FDA and the State of California identified the same strain of E. coli O157:H7 in cattle feces from a ranch close to where the spinach was grown.

Besides being the source of 3/4ths of the nations spinach, California is home to nearly 5 million cows which produce 15 million tons of manure every year - manure that often ends up in nearby waterways, including the ditches and channels of irrigation water for crops like spinach. Dried manure can even blow onto neighboring fields in clouds of dust.

"Irradiation kills some bacteria in our foods, but it is no substitute for measures to clean up the huge animal operations that pollute our waterways and irrigation water with the raw manure that often carries pathogenic bacteria," said Freese.

Contamination of leafy greens is not a new problem. According to the California Department of Health Services, in the last 11 years, 20 E. coli outbreaks have been linked to "leafy products" grown in California, including two related to spinach.

"Food companies are also seeking FDA permission to label irradiated foods as 'pasteurized' - an obvious attempt to conceal from consumers the fact that foods are being irradiated," added Freese.
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Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals

A call out to the good lawyers of this earth!! Wake up lawyers! Wake up lawyers!

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Radiation warning for Scots families near firing range

PEOPLE living near a top-secret firing range may be at a higher risk of cancer,... more

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FDA plots to mislead consumers over irradiated foods: Natural News

"Consumer awareness is considered undesirable by the FDA; an agency that also... more

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Killing our food: the dangers of irradiated food - controlled from cradle to grave?

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FDA approves radiation for vegetables!

"Federal regulators are expected today to let processors for the first time use radiation to kill bacteria in spinach and iceberg lettuce.

The step will protect consumers and growers, who have been battered by E. coli outbreaks in recent years.

But are shoppers ready for irradiated vegetables?

Experts point out that meat and some other foods have been treated with radiation for years, with little or no resistance from shoppers. But that may be simply because few are aware of the practice.

Anuradha Prakash, an assistant professor at Chapman University and an expert on food irradiation, said consumers are ready to make their food safer given the outbreaks that have occurred in the past few years related to fresh produce.

"But there will have to be lots of consumer education before they will accept it," Prakash said.

Christine Bruhn, a University of California food science marketing specialist and director of the UC Davis Center for Consumer Research, agreed. She said that while some consumers are ready, most are unaware of the practice.

"Maybe the science community has not spoken enough about this," Bruhn said. "But they will be doing it more and more now."

The Food and Drug Administration is set to formally give the green light today to a practice officials have concluded is safe. The long-awaited decision comes in the wake of high-profile bacterial outbreaks involving tainted California greens.

"I hope we will see a reduction in the number of food-borne illnesses," Dr. Robert Brackett, chief scientist with the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said Thursday. "It gives the industry another tool to increase food safety."

Irradiation of beef has been allowed since 2000. Yet only about 15 million pounds of the roughly 8 billion pounds of beef processed annually is irradiated, Dennis Olson, an Iowa State University meat scientist and irradiation expert, told the Chicago Tribune.

The beef industry liked the concept, but didn't want to promote irradiation because of consumer concerns, he said."

Wow - so not only are they doing this on veggies, they've been doing it on beef for years but didn't want to tell us because they knew we'd find it strange. WTF?!?"Federal regulators are expected today to let processors for the first time use... more

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FDA to allow radiation of spinach and lettuce

Health regulators have approved the use of ionizing radiation for fresh spinach and... more

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The Food Irradiation Plot

There's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional... more

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Cell-phone radiation can cause visual damage

In a recent scientific study conducted by a team of researchers from the Technion, a... more

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Uranium spills into two French rivers

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Radiation Exposure: 24 Hour Cell Phone Use = 1600 Chest X-Rays! - ALEEKA.COM

Got wireless? Just call it "X-ray"

No sane parent would submit his child to 1600 chest X-rays over a 24 hour period. Yet a mere 24 hours of wireless phone radiation can inflict the same damage to a child’s tissues as 1600 chest X-rays. This is the crux of studies completed by 12 groups of researchers from seven European countries who collaborated in the REFLEX study project to gauge the effects of wireless radiation on human health. REFLEX scientists have released the comet assay slides (22) pictured above.

The U.S. government allowed wireless phones to be put on the market in the 1980s with absolutely no safety testing. Today, REFLEX research demonstrates that Wi-phones blasting high-frequency microwaves are basically personal X-ray devices. This shocking reality gives rise to the term "Generation X-ray." Consumers aren’t permitted to buy household X-ray machines. Yet comparably lethal wireless devices are handed out to grade school kids for heavy and indiscriminate use, with virtually no hazard warnings and no medical supervision.

Tissue damage from wireless microwave radiation is known to be as cumulative as that from ionizing X-radiation. If we divide the tissue damage of 1600 chest X-rays by 24 cell phone hours, we could make the following postulations about Generation X-ray:

• For each minute a child presses a microwave phone to his head, he may suffer radiation damage equivalent to approximately 1.1 chest X-rays.

• For each hour a child uses a transmitting wireless phone or wireless laptop to communicate, watch videos/TV or play games, he may be exposing his developing brain, eye and gut tissues to radiation damage equivalent to 66.6 chest X-rays.

Ionizing X-radiation, like that used for chest X-rays and other medical procedures, is on carcinogen "List One," compiled by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). IARC is an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization. IARC ranks X-radiation on par with gamma radiation, plutonium, dioxin and benzene, all known to induce cancer in both animals and humans. There is no "safe" dose determined for any substance or exposure on IARC’s List One.

It’s sobering that microwave radiation, blasting from an entire generation’s wireless phones, inflicts the same kind of DNA damage as ionizing radiation on IARC’s carcinogen List One. What REFLEX studies prove is how quickly that devastating damage takes place.Got wireless? Just call it "X-ray" No sane parent would submit his child... more

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How much radiation does your phone emit?

"The technology news site CNET has compiled two interesting lists showing which... more

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Senator Ted Kennedy Having Surgery for Tumor

Kennedy Having Surgery for Tumor By PAM BELLUCK - NY Times BOSTON, June 2 —... more

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Senator Kennedy to battle brain tumour

Kennedy has a glioma and will require chemotherapy and radiation therapy, neurologist... more

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Nuclear power is no solution to the climate crisis: exposing the myths

The nuclear industry is hoping that concern over climate change will result in support... more

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Radioactive colonization and the University of California in New Mexico

Follow link to UC Nuclear Free: The human cost in New Mexico of nuclear weapons... more

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Is nuclear energy a clean solution for global warming?

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Southwest Research and Information Center - Web Links

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