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Chemical Industry's Off the Books Practices: Top Secret Chemicals | Environmental Working Group

2010-03-27T12:11:00.001-07:00

Chemical Industry's Off the Books Practices: Top Secret Chemicals | Environmental Working Group

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Gulf Dead Zones Just Got Deadlier

2010-03-27T11:49:00.001-07:00

Gulf Dead Zones Just Got Deadlier

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Beaches are not safe when Red Tide comes in

2010-03-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

News Release From NOAA for early warnings of the New England 'Red Tide' 2010.

Are All Vaccines Safe?

2010-03-13T09:49:00.000-08:00

What types of materials are used in the vaccines?

INFORMED CHOICE
Vaccine Ingredients
In a compulsory inoculation program, it is the responsibility of the developers, promoters and enforcers to prove safety and efficacy

Baxter’s Patent on H1N1-Releasing Deadly Viruses-Part 1

Under patent number US 2009/0060950 A1 Baxter Pharmaceutical companyknow as Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the USA applied for andreceived a patent on the Swine Flu Vaccine for H1N1 and many other“swine” “bird” “human” virusdiseases to come by the inventors of the swine viral vaccine fromAustria. Initially they had commenced the patents in 2007 wellbefore the outbreak of the swine flu virus.

Swine Flu Genetically Engineered Pandemic
NEWS RELEASE
Release: No. H1N1-15=6
Date Mailed: April 25, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jackie Lindenbach—208/265-8065; 800/336-9266
H1N1-H5N1 Flu Outbreak Implicates Anglo-American
“Vaccine Pipeline” Says Expert Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Los Angeles, CA— Skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc.,1precipitated by dozens of flu deaths in Mexico, implicates a leadingAnglo-American network of genetic engineers in a conspiracy to commitgenocide, according to a Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases,Dr. Leonard Horowitz.
Dr. James S. Robertson, England’s leading bio engineer of fluviruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Governmentfunding for lucrative “bio defense” contracts, along withcollaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention(CDC), helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, producegenetically-modified recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish fluviruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented Mexicanvirus that has now spread to the United States. The outbreak wasprecisely timed to promote the company’s new research and hugevaccine stockpiling contracts, according to Dr. Horowitz.2....continued

The Swine Flu Panic of 2009

Swine flu kept the world in suspense for almost a year. Amassive vaccination campaign was mounted to put a stop to theanticipated pandemic. But, as it turned out, it was a relativelyharmless strain of the flu virus. How, and why, did the worldoverreact? A reconstruction. By SPIEGEL staff.

Excerpt:

None of these diseases receives more attention than influenza.Researchers in more than 130 laboratories in 102 countries areconstantly on the lookout for new flu pathogens. Entire careers andinstitutions, and a lot of money, depend on the outcomes of their work."Sometimes you get the feeling that there is a whole industry almostwaiting for a pandemic to occur," says flu expert Tom Jefferson,from an international health nonprofit called the CochraneCollaboration. "And all it took was one of these influenza viruses tomutate to start the machine grinding."
Now turned up, the machinery was set into motion. Researchers got towork examining the molecular structure of the virus. The pharmaceuticalindustry started to develop vaccines. Government agencies laid outdisaster plans. There was only one thing that everyone was ignoring:The new pathogen was, in fact, relatively harmless.

April 24, 2009: WHO Headquarters in Geneva
Shortly after midnight Keiji Fukuda, an influenza specialist withthe World Health Organization (WHO), received a phone call from NancyCox, the chief of the influenza division at the United States Centersfor Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
Fukuda and Cox had once worked together to fight the Asian bird flu.Both scientists remembered all too well how the aggressive killersurfaced in Hong Kong. A third of those infected with the virus died.To this day, Fukuda retains the fear that a similar pathogen couldpermanently make the jump to humans.

Are we eating rotten meat?

2010-03-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

We were going to have steak for dinner one night and it had this odd smell. It looked fresh but definitely was not fresh. I got to wondering why, how did I pick out something that looked perfectly okay until it was cooked? Here is what I discovered. Our local grocery stores buy there meat from a meat supplier. Most of the meat in the grocery stores comes from one of four suppliers in the United States.

I looked for information online about irradiation of food to discover this could be a problem.

Article from 2001, Irradiation damages the quality of food. Science has not proved that a long-term diet of irradiated foods is safe for human health.

From the FDA Website;

Irradiation of Food and Packaging: An Overview

3. Labeling Like other forms of processing, irradiation can affect the characteristics of food. Consumer choice mandates that irradiated food be adequately labeled and under the general labeling requirements, it is necessary that the food processor inform the consumer that food has been irradiated. Labeling of irradiated foods however, is undergoing reevaluation in the US. If whole foods have been irradiated, FDA requires that the label bear the radura symbol and the phrase "treated with radiation" or "treated by irradiation." Yet, if irradiated ingredients are added to foods that have not been irradiated, no special labeling is required on retail packages. Special labeling is required for foods not yet in the retail market that may undergo further processing in order to ensure that foods are not irradiated multiple times. In this regulation, FDA advises that other truthful statements, such as the reason for irradiating the food, may be included ⁽¹³⁾.

Because the words "radiation" and "irradiation" may have negative connotations, the labeling requirement has been viewed as an obstacle to consumer acceptance. Many in the food industry believe that an alternative wording, e.g. "electronically pasteurized," would be helpful. In 1997, Congress attempted to resolve this issues in two ways. First, it mandated that the FDA could not require print size on a label statement to be larger than that required for ingredients and second, it directed the FDA to reconsider the label requirement and to seek public comment on possible changes. The FDA had not in fact mandated a type size but did require a statement that would be "prominent and conspicuous." In response to this congressional directive, the FDA published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) in 1999 seeking public comment on the labeling of irradiated food, particularly on whether the current label may be misleading by implying a warning and invited suggestions of alternative labeling that would inform consumers without improperly alarming them. Thousands of comments were received, with a large number compiled into a categorical database for further examination by the CFSAN's Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements. This leading office for labeling policy has not yet determined whether there will be a change in labeling requirements.

Evidently the consumers right to know what they are purchasing is overridden by the industry's right to sell the consumer something they may not wish to purchase. This was the same phrase I read concerning the labels on GM and GMO products. As a consumer you cannot be given informed consent to what the food product actually contains or how the food product has been altered.

SEEKING! Twenty million United States citizen and consumers to inform Congress that we as citizens, have a right to know what is in our food and exactly what has been done to alter it.

Whistleblowers Lead Way "Graham explained that a senior official at the FDA had told him: "industry is our client."

Inform Congress and FDA that the public is their client regardless of what industry may be influencing them.

More dangers from another GM crop comes to light

2010-03-12T21:27:00.000-08:00

TB-spread fears follow European GM potato ruling
Malaysia Sun
Thursday 4th March, 2010
(IANS)

"A ruling by the European Union to allow the production of genetically-modified potatoes in member-states has sparked claims the vegetables may lead to the spread of a deadly form of tuberculosis.

The European Commission Tuesday gave the green signal for the production of GM Amflora potatoes in the first approval for a GM crop to be grown on a commercial scale in Europe for 12 years.

Although the European Union's 27 member-states are free not to grow the crop, environmental campaigners denounced the approval, saying it could lead the spread of multi-disease resistant TB (MDR-TB) - a major global health concern."

"Once the starch has been removed for industrial purposes, the potato skins could be fed to animals, whose meat would not have to be labelled as GM, and could thus enter the food chain in Europe, campaigners fear.

The European Medical Authority (EMA), the agency that evaluates medicinal products in the continent, said Amflora contains a gene that produces an enzyme which generally confers resistance to several antibiotics, including kanamycin, neomycin, butirosin, and gentamicin." More