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
Continue Reading Some leafy greens added to Dirty Dozen, strawberries still at top of the EWG’s list
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
Continue Reading Raisins invade list as environmental group names ‘dirty’ fresh produce
“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,
Continue Reading Activists take their campaign to ban Perchlorate to federal court
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
Continue Reading EFSA finds chlorpyrifos does not meet criteria for renewal
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
Continue Reading Triple play: EWG posts ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of fresh produce items
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
Continue Reading Triple play: AFF says rest easy, eat your fruits and vegetables
Editor’s note: This opinion contribution by Toby Amidor is part of a three-piece presentation today by Food Safety News. To read views on the same topic from the Environmental Working Group and the Alliance
Continue Reading Triple play: ‘Pro-choice nutritionist’ calls out produce guides
Once again, San Francisco is poised to become the first city in the nation to take a legislative stand on a controversial topic. Its Board of Supervisors is set to vote tomorrow on an ordinance
Continue Reading Antibiotic disclosure — another first for San Francisco?
Editor’s note: This opinion piece was originally posted July 18, 2016, by the Alliance for Food and Farming. At the inaugural Organic Produce Summit in Monterey on July 14, we witnessed a messaging evolution
Continue Reading The evolution of organic messaging moves away from fear
Bisphenol-A, or BPA, a chemical component found in plastic bottles and canned food liners, has long courted controversy over its alleged health risks. While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has maintained that it
Continue Reading Tests of Canned Food Brands Reveal Most Have Controversial Chemical in Can Lining
