9 Out of 10 Food Safety Testing Labs Diss Congressional Investigators

On Thursday, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing titled “American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA’s Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented?”
The Committee’s eighth hearing on food safety will assess the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) progress in implementing and funding the Administration’s Food Protection Plan. It will [...]

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Video of the Day: Contaminated - The Science of Food

Fritjof Capra, one of the leading lights of the ecological movement and the author of the “Tao of Physics” and “Steering Business Toward Sustainability,” hosts a video about how Monsanto, Aventis, Dow and DuPont are experimenting with us by altering the food we eat.
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Hearing on FEMA’s Toxic Trailers Scheduled For Tomorrow

As a follow-up to last year’s hearing on FEMA’s toxic trailers, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman just announced a hearing tomorrow regarding the elevated levels of formaldehyde in the travel trailers FEMA provided to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Waxman sent letters to four manufacturers of the travel trailers - Gulf Stream Coach, Pilgrim International, Keystone [...]

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Video of the Day: Vets Urge McCain Not to Privatize Veterans’ Health Care

Sen. John McCain and other lawmakers are proposing to privatize veterans healthcare.
Some veterans, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, oppose that proposal and are urging McCain to fully fund and staff the Veterans Administration.
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Sneak Peek: Upcoming Reports
On Cheatin’ Truck Drivers & Chantix

This afternoon, the Government Accountability Office will release a report that demonstrates how easy it is for commercially-licensed truck drivers to cheat on drug and alcohol tests.
Posing as drivers, investigators bought fake urine and passed their tests - 10 out of 24 test sites failed to detect “subversion products” such as fake urine or additives.
And [...]

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Probe: FDA Used Industry Studies
To Approve Chemical in Infant Products

Leaders of the Committee on Energy and Commerce wrote the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to press for additional information on how the agency approved the use of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) in products intended for use by infants and children.
The letter, signed by Reps. John D. Dingell (D-MI), the Chairman of the Committee [...]

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FDA Considering Action
On Singulair’s Possible Link to Suicide

The FDA just issued a statement on its ongoing investigation of Montelukast (Singulair):
“This information reflects FDA’s current analysis of available data concerning these drugs. Posting this information does not mean that FDA has concluded there is a causal relationship between the drug product and the emerging safety issue. Nor does it mean that FDA is [...]

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Department of Propaganda:
Bottled Water Industry Strikes Back!

In the face of widespread skepticism about the real content of bottled water, the brave forces at the International Bottled Water Association have decided to set the record straight (see press release after the jump):
Bottled Water is NOT Simply Tap Water in a Bottle (Dammit!)

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ConAgra and Dole in the Hot Seat
As Food Safety Hearings Begin

In his opening statement this morning at the food safety hearings, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) blasted Con Agra for misleading Congress last April about the extent of salmonella contamination in jars of their Peter Pan peanut butter.
He also criticized Dole Foods for assuring Congress last year that the problem of contaminated spinach and lettuce was under control due to new [...]

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Did Hillary Steal Lines Too?
Google Geek’s ‘Islamic Responsibility’

The ‘08 Race
Did Hillary Clinton steal lines from a family planning organization for a speech she gave in 2005? “Yes we can!” (Editors of Muckraked guarantee that this item was NOT leaked to us by the Obama campaign.)
John McCain borrowed $1 million from a bank by pledging to enter the public financing system. Experts say this means that his hands [...]

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