By Paul Feldman on May 9, 2018
Farmers in California, the nation’s top agricultural state, are applying near-record levels of pesticides despite the rising popularity of organic produce and concerns about the health of farmworkers and rural schoolchildren. The latest figures, released in April by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and covering 2016, show that 209 million pounds of pesticide active…
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By Paul Feldman on April 19, 2018
Dicamba, an herbicide sold by agribusiness giants Monsanto, BASF and DowDupont, doesn’t just kill weeds. Last year, according to a University of Missouri survey, dicamba damaged an estimated 3.6 million acres of soybeans across 25 states when it drifted from farms planted with seeds genetically engineered to resist the chemical onto regular soybean fields. That…
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Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science-for-Hire Giant Exponent
By Myron Levin and Paul Feldman on December 13, 2016
The Fall of Icarus is the Greek myth about a youth who gets a pair of wax-and-feather wings but soars too close to the sun–melting the wings and casting him into the sea. In the 1990s, a consulting firm called Failure Analysis Associates ran tongue-in-cheek ads aimed at corporate lawyers that retold the myth as…
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Tougher Testing Sought to Detect Asbestos in Talc
By Myron Levin on September 8, 2015
We use talc in many up close and personal ways: to powder babies’ bottoms, as an ingredient in cosmetics, a filler in capsules and pills–even as a food additive. In a world of ominous, unpronounceable chemicals, could anything be less scary than talc? Yet talc, the softest known mineral, is dug from the ground, where…
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on July 3, 2014
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By Rick Schmitt on June 26, 2014
In April 2012, a team of inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigated a seafood company in southern India that had been exporting tons of frozen yellow fin tuna to the United States. What they found was not appetizing: water tanks rife with microbiological contamination, rusty carving knives, peeling paint above the work…
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By Emily Dwass on December 19, 2011
Our correspondent set out to rid her household of the controversial chemical BPA. She found it was easier said than done.
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on December 1, 2011
How do you discourage kids from getting fast-food meals loaded with salt, sugar and fat? San Francisco thought it had a solution: Prohibit restaurants from including free toys with unhealthy meals. But the ban, which went into effect today, already has been beaten. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, first McDonald’s, and then Burger King,…
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Monsanto, the court and the seeds of dissent
Should Monsanto, or any corporation, have rights to a self-replicating natural product?
By George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker on February 21, 2013
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, will present arguments before the Supreme Court asserting the company’s rights to the generations of seeds that naturally reproduce from its genetically modified strains. Bowman vs. Monsanto Co. will be decided based on the court’s interpretation of a complex web of seed and…
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