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Jargon Watch: Toxin vs Toxicant

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Kim Boekelheide with TreeHugger hero Meg Kissinger

The very first thing that Professor Kim Boekelheide did at the Metcalfe Institute's Science seminar for Journalists last week was to complain about the misuse of the word "toxin

Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren't

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palm oil orangutan poster Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted."

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Forget the Oscars, The Toxies Are Much More Exciting

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I am so embarrassed that we missed our walk down the red carpet for the Toxies on Wednesday night at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater.

FDA On BPA: It Has "Some Concern." But Not Much.

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Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce

The Food and Drug Administration finally came out with their long-awaited update on the use of Bisphenol A in food contact applications and they say.......wait a little longer.

More BPA in Adults Could Mean More Heart Disease

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Is it the Spam, or is it the can?

At some point, even the people at Stats.org are going to have to acknowledge the growing pile of studies from all over the world adding to the case against Bisphenol A (BPA).