

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
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."

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

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.

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).