Posted by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
What does "known to cause" mean to you? Does it mean "beyond a reasonable doubt"? Or "clear and convincing"? To a scientist like me, this type of legal-speak is baffling, yet we were hearing a lot of it from the...continued→
Posted by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
Today an expert group of scientists issued a strongly worded report that verifies what most of us already knew - we live in a toxic soup of chemicals that we accumulate by breathing contaminated air, eating contaminated food, drinking contaminated...continued→
Posted by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment
An external subcommittee of scientists just administered a dose of bitter medicine to the FDA. The subcommittee reviewed a deeply flawed FDA report on the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) and concluded that the Agency bungled the science, failing to protect people from this chemical....continued→
