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Fruits and veggies with a side of pesticides?

Would you like a side of pesticide with your juicy apple? If 92% of conventionally grown apples contained 2 or more pesticide residues. Just how dirty is your food?

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Artificial food dyes: risky business?

Nutritionists advise a plate of food to resemble a rainbow, with fruits and vegetables of different colors filling the plate and stomach. In recent decades, artificial dyes have given the illusion of this being achieved.

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: “safe” levels of dye, action, artificial colors, artificial dyes in a child’s diet, artificial flavoring, artificial food dye, bill, cancer, chemicals, children's food, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, food, fruits and vegetables, health, kitchen table campaigns, Mac n’ Cheese, new, phthalates, policy, products, retailers, safer, saferchemicals, state, store, toxic

Styrene officially linked to cancer

Just this week, the National Research Council (NRC) signed off on the National Toxicology Program’s decision to list styrene as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” in its latest report on carcinogens.

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