Melting glaciers release toxic chemical cocktail
Decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores of the insecticide are now trickling out of melting Antarctic glaciers.
Source: nscientist, Date and Time of entry: 07 May 2008 12:55

A last slice of British life
Robert L White laments the imminent demise of the battenberg cake, and asks which additive-ridden foodstuffs have an inexplicably special place in your heart
Source: wofmouth, Date and Time of entry: 07 May 2008 12:54

Asda gears up for additives battle
Supermarket giant Asda's announcement that it would cut out the 'nasties' from its food promised relief for consumers trying to dodge saturated fats, E-numbers and excess calories.
Source: timoney, Date and Time of entry: 07 May 2008 12:53

MEPs back ban on bright colouring additives in food
Parliament's Environment Committee has voted to ban colouring agents in food, as recent research on health effects of bright colouring additives in sweets and soft drinks shows that these dyes can cause hyperactivity in children.
Source: euractiv, Date and Time of entry: 07 May 2008 12:52

DIY store exposed thousands to deadly disease
MORE than 500,000 customers were exposed to the risk of Legionnaires' disease at a DIY store, a council said yesterday.
Source: yorks post, Date and Time of entry: 15 April 2008 16:37

Third Case of Legionnaires Disease Confirmed at Hotel
ORLANDO, FL (AP) -- Health officials say a third person has tested positive for Legionnaires' disease after staying at an Orlando hotel.
Source: fcnews, Date and Time of entry: 15 April 2008 16:37

Legionnaires death investigation
A patient admitted to hospital in Ayrshire with suspected Legionnaires' disease has died.
Source: bbc, Date and Time of entry: 15 April 2008 16:36

Bug death probe shows link to top Scots hotel
ONE OF Scotland’s top hotels has been named as the possible source of a killer case of legionnaires’ disease.
Source: courier, Date and Time of entry: 15 April 2008 16:35

Legal challenge to Defra TB testing
The Somerset farm, which provides milk to supermarkets, is challenging the results because while all 100 livestock tested positive after the gamma ...
Source: pressassoc, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:44

Salmonella Typhimurium Infection Associated With Raw Milk and Cheese Consumption
In February 2007, the Pennsylvania Department of Health received reports, through routine electronic laboratory disease reporting, of two persons with recent laboratory-confirmed infections with Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium.
Source: jama, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:43

Pesticide detected on gyoza packs
BE--The pesticide methamidophos was detected on the outer packaging of six Chinese-made gyoza packs produced on the same day as those that sickened a ...
Source: yomiuri, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:36

After Bad Dumplings, Nissin Loses Appetite For Japan Tobacco Deal
Methamidophos is a common pesticide in China but is banned in Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials said. Last Wednesday, JT Food recalled the ...
Source: forbes, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:35

Pesticide-free Produce, Pesticide-free Kids
Young research subjects who ate conventional produce were found to have organophosphate residue in their bodily fluids, while kids who ate organic produce
Source: grist , Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:32

Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products
There's a large underpinning of animal research for organophosphate pesticides, and particularly for chlorpyrifos, that points to bad outcomes in terms of ...
Source: spi, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:31

Japan to send inspection team to China over food-poisoning
The Japanese government has not found how the products were contaminated by an organophosphate pesticide, called methamidophos, after they arrived in Japan ...
Source: earthtimes, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:30

Rural Breast Milk” Study to Aid in Reduction of POP’s in Environment
A series of international studies on levels of organochlorine contaminants in breast milk has raised the concerns of WHO and hence the results of this study ...
Source: medindia, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:29

Bio-Accumulation: Effects of spraying
The fact that the sale and use of many of the worst POPs (such as the organochlorine insecticides) have been banned by environmental regulations in the ...
Source: helium, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:29

Spraying sparks cancer fears
"Simazine and atrazine are closely related chemicals belonging to the triazine group; it is certainly possible that they will have similar effects. ...
Source: dexaminer, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:28

Sterilise formula water’ warning
“Water with a temperature above 70C will kill E sakazakii and any other bacteria like salmonella that may be present,” said Dr Foley-Nolan.
Source: independent.ie, Date and Time of entry: 25 January 2008 10:39

Eclipse's Holding Company Inspicio plc receives Recommended Cash Offer
14 December 2007 -- Eclipse Holding Company Inspicio plc (INP) is pleased to announce that it has today reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer from 3i (via a newly incorporated company, Angus Newco) for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Inspicio. 
Source: inspicio, Date and Time of entry: 14 December 2007 14:33

Wockhardt’s buy to strengthen US market
Lindane, a synthetic chemical initially developed as an agricultural insecticide and then formulated for medical use due to its antiparasitic efficacy against scabies and lice, could remain a weak point for Morton Grove and indirectly, Wockhardt.
Source: bus.line, Date and Time of entry: 23 November 2007 10:17

Let sleeping bats lie
Sources at the Israel Mammal Center, run by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, note that in the past, Israel bat population suffered serious harm when it was thought that the bats damaged fruit crops, and the caves were fumigated with Lindane, an extremely toxic pesticide.
Source: haaretz, Date and Time of entry: 23 November 2007 10:15

Is Smoking Sin?
Here is a list of some of the chemicals found in unfiltered cigarette smoke besides carbon monoxide: hydroquinone, methacrolein, methyl alcohol, methylamine, nickel compounds, pyridine, dimethylamine, endrin, ethylamine, furfural, cadmium, methyl nitrite, ammonia, formaldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, ddt, and nicotine.
Source: thetrumpet, Date and Time of entry: 16 November 2007 17:45

As insects grow immune, pesticides stay on attack
remove contaminants believed to be caused by the breakdown of endrin, a boll weevil killer produced by the Velsicol Chemical Corp - Throughout the Mississippi Delta, advisories remain in effect for fish consumption because of lingering residues of DDT and toxaphene,
Source: commapp, Date and Time of entry: 16 November 2007 17:43

Wiping is best for indoor pesticides
Sections of ceramic tile, hardwood flooring, vinyl tile and low-pile carpet were sprayed uniformly with one of several pesticide sprays containing chlorpyrifos, malathion, fipronil, permethrin, cyfluthrin, cypermethrin and deltamethrin as active ingredients.
Source: sepnow, Date and Time of entry: 12 November 2007 12:15

Taking out the toxins
Persistent organic pollutants such as DDT, Dieldrin and Heptachlor are now largely phased out but many of today's most widely used pesticides are actually far more toxic than those they have replaced.
Source: guardian, Date and Time of entry: 12 November 2007 12:11

Why I would never eat farmed salmon
In January 2004, a report in Science journal started a food scare. Researchers tested about 700 salmon - wild and farmed - for PCBs, dioxin, toxaphene and dieldrin.
Source: independent.ie, Date and Time of entry: 12 November 2007 12:09

Honolulu violated sewage permit, court finds
Ezra rejected additional claims that sought to calculate violations for discharging excess levels of two toxic chemicals used in pesticides — chlordane and dieldrin — and to count violations of a 2002 compliance plan.
Source: mahalo, Date and Time of entry: 12 November 2007 12:08