By Laurie Udesky on July 5, 2011
More than 80 percent of the fish consumed in the U.S. is imported, even though there long have been questions about whether imported seafood is safe to eat. A recent government report declared that the FDA’s inspection system is so haphazard that seafood tainted with banned and potentially harmful drugs may be getting into this country. FairWarning has found that the potential problem is already a reality, and that tainted fish are winding up on American dinner plates.
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Environmental Safety and Health |
By Laurie Udesky on June 13, 2011
Federal health authorities have added formaldehyde to a list of known human carcinogens, and said that evidence shows a second common chemical, styrene, most likely causes cancer. The warnings were included in the most recent update of the Report on Carcinogens issued by the National Toxicology Program, a branch of the Department of Health and…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Laurie Udesky on May 10, 2011
A new report in a law journal could reignite the vitriolic debate over a possible connection between vaccines and autism.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Warning Wire | Tagged Vaccine Safety |
By Laurie Udesky on May 5, 2011
In supermarkets, health food stores and pharmacies, sleep-deprived new parents sometimes seek out herbal teas and supplements that promise to ease their infant’s colic or help them nap. In fact, a study published in the journal Pediatrics — based on federal surveys of 2,653 mothers tracked through the first year of their infants’ lives —…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs |
By Laurie Udesky on April 28, 2011
Following a tide of recalls, Johnson & Johnson is rolling out a new container design intended to prevent accidental overdoses of children’s over-the-counter remedies, reports The Wall Street Journal. The innovation is a dose-limiting cap that helps parents draw, with a syringe, the right amount of medicine. The new containers will be introduced at the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Product Hazards and Recalls |
By Laurie Udesky on April 27, 2011
The air in the nation’s dirtiest metropolitan areas is getting cleaner, but roughly half of all Americans live in counties where residents sometimes still are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution. That assessment comes from the annual “State of the Air” report by the American Lung Association, which ranks cities, counties and states by…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health |
By Laurie Udesky on April 22, 2011
By 2020 restaurants, bars and work sites could be smoke-free throughout nearly all states except in the South. That’s the prediction of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By last year, according to a report in the CDCs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, the number of states with comprehensive smoking bans was 26, up from…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Laurie Udesky on April 21, 2011
The amount of pesticide a woman is exposed to while pregnant could affect her child’s IQ years later. As Time magazine reports, three studies published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives have linked lower IQs among children whose mothers had higher-than-average exposures during pregnancy to household bug spray or crop spray in farming communities. In…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Environmental Safety and Health |
