Phthalates have many uses, but the main use is as an additive to plastics to make them more flexible. However, as the phthalates are not bound to the plastic, they are released at an accelerating rate as the plastic breaks down. We are exposed to phthalates in the environment, and…
Just one day before a ban on soft drinks larger than 473ml (or 16 oz for the non-metric minded) was due to come into play in New York, a judge has ruled the proposed ban to be “arbitrary and capricious”.
There were many very concerning papers in the last few years about endocrine disruptors and obesity. You may say, people are not getting as much exercise as they used too, or are eating more unhealthy, and while these points are accepted the general consensus is that diet and a more…
Eating processed meat is the cause of 1 in 30 early deaths. That was the headline in English newspapers yesterday after a paper was published on the BMC medicine website.
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an organochlorine pesticide, first discovered in 1874, that became a major pesticide during World War II after it was found to have pesticidal properties.
Gender bending compounds that have been shown to feminise male fish and also to lower sperm count in humans are just one example of an endocrine disrupter.
A new one for you. German authorities are investigating the possibility that eggs laid by hens in cramped conditions have been mis-sold as organic. So far, 150 farms in Lower Saxony have been implicated in the scandal, and 50 farms from two other regions of Germany are also being investigated.
In January 2011, dioxins were detected in eggs originating from Germany had been shipped all over Europe. Dioxins are a by-product of chemical and pesticide production, they are also produced during burning, such as incineration. They accumulate in body fat and high doses over many years can lead to fertility…
Unfortunately that is not slang for great, it literally can make you blind. On the 15th July 2011 an explosion in an illegal distillery in Boston, UK, killed 5 men and uncovered a £1bn fake vodka scam. In the same month, another distillery located on Brewery Street, Birmingham was raided…
Treating beef carcasses with lactic acid (or milk acid) has been used for a while in the US beef industry as a way of reducing the incidence of pathogenic organisms and the number of bacteria. Researchers from Colorado State University decided to test the effect of lactic acid treatment on…
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