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Bill banning harmful chemicals in food advances in California Senate

By Dan Flynn on June 30, 2023

On June 28, the California Senate Committee on Health approved the first-in-the-nation bill to ban five harmful chemicals from candy, cereals, and other processed food.

Assembly Bill 418, which has already passed California’s lower house, is getting…

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Preliminary decision to allow pesticide chlormequat use pits EPA against EWG

By Dan Flynn on April 28, 2023

A decision earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the use of the pesticide chlormequat has brought a strong rebuke from the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

The nonprofit EWG, a…

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Environmental Working Group unveils its Dirty Dozen, Clean 15 for 2023

By Coral Beach on March 17, 2023

The Environmental Working Group has come out with its “Dirty Dozen” list of fruits and vegetables, with strawberries topping the list again.

The group has compiled its list for several years to highlight produce with…

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Advocates want answers from feds on infant formula outbreak and shortage; Congress, Biden act to ease situation

By Coral Beach on May 20, 2022

The shortage of infant formula and the food safety reason behind it are front and center for groups like Consumer Reports and the Environmental Working Group, which are calling on Congress to take action.

Representatives…
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Some leafy greens added to Dirty Dozen, strawberries still at top of the EWG’s list

By Coral Beach on March 18, 2021

This year’s Dirty Dozen list from the Environmental Working Group opens with a statement about COVID-19 and food safety, encouraging consumers to continue to eat fresh fruits and vegetables during the pandemic.

Officials with the…
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Raisins invade list as environmental group names ‘dirty’ fresh produce

By Coral Beach on March 26, 2020

The Environmental Working Group has finished crunching numbers from a government report and again says strawberries are at the top of the group’s Dirty Dozen list of fresh produce.

Every year the non-profit group takes…
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Activists take their campaign to ban Perchlorate to federal court

By Dan Flynn on October 30, 2019

“The dose makes the poison,” supposedly said the renaissance physician Paracelsus. The toxicology pioneer looked at everything as poison with only the dose making something, not a poison.

An environmental lawsuit filed Tuesday over perchlorate,…
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EFSA finds chlorpyrifos does not meet criteria for renewal

By News Desk on August 5, 2019

The pesticide chlorpyrifos could be banned in Europe from next year after the European Food Safety Authority said it does not meet criteria for renewal.

The approval period for the substance expires at the end…
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Triple play: EWG posts ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of fresh produce items

By Environmental Working Group on April 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This opinion piece by Sonya Lunder, senior analyst for the Environmental Working Group, is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from …
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Triple play: AFF says rest easy, eat your fruits and vegetables

By Alliance for Food and Farming on April 10, 2018

Editor’s note: This opinion contribution by the Alliance for Food and Farming is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from the Environmental Working …
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