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A Tool To Let Companies Design Products Without Harmful Chemicals

Source: Fast Company, Dec 12 2012, 4:02pm CST

We’re replacing a known bad player with something whose characteristics we don’t know. There are tests that show hormones are being disrupted without us knowing the exact mechanism. We’re all guinea pigs for endocrine disrupting chemicals (h ...

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From chemistry lab to plate

Source: Richmond News  |   Jun 19 2013, 2:24pm CDT

Food - it must have been among the first things for which humans found a word. "Foda," an ancient inhabitant of the British Isles would have muttered, peering into the pot bubbling on his hearth. Related An ...

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V2 Electronic Cigarettes Get Great Reviews, But Are They Safe?

Source: The Inquisitr  |   Jun 19 2013, 9:16am CDT

V2 electronic cigarettes get great reviews, but are they safe? V2 Cigs reviews have been touted as much cheaper and safer than the non-electronic alternative. However, doctors warn users against the assumption that ...

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"We really do understand often the molecular details of how it’s working and chemists know how to change molecular shapes. You come up with the possibility that you can design a material that has just exactly the type of characteristics you want"


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Consumer recall: Natura Pet Products dry pet food

Source: Click2Houston.com  |   Jun 19 2013, 8:42am CDT

Federal safety officials said several brands of Natura Pet Products dry pet food have been recalled over concerns they were contaminated with salmonella. The FDA said the recalled products were packaged in a single production f ...

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Online Beauty Supply Store NewVo Beauty Recommends the Use of Organic...

Source: PRWeb  |   Jun 19 2013, 5:17am CDT

On June 19, online beauty supply store NewVo Beauty supports the use of organic cosmetics and hair care lines like Pureology, and recommends the use of environmentally conscious products in response to an article reviewing ...

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Republicans Blast Fed Scientist for Article Linking Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals to Health Effects

Source: Beyond Pesticides  |   Jun 18 2013, 11:01pm CDT

(Beyond Pesticides, June 19, 2013) The Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Linda Birnbaum, PhD, is being criticized by some Republicans for authoring an article that describes li ...

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Salmonella Scare Prompts Pet Food Recall

Source: KNBC Los Angeles  |   Jun 18 2013, 10:54pm CDT

A popular pet food company has announced a massive, worldwide, voluntary recall of several of its products, saying the food might be tainted with salmonella that could harm pets who eat it or people who handle it. A popular p ...

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Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates

Source: PhysOrg.com  |   Jun 18 2013, 5:08am CDT

Rice University scientists have created a computational procedure to identify small organic molecules (purple) that can be used to guide the growth of zeolite crystals (yellow). Credit: Kelly Harvey More from Physics ...

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New Study Exposes Range of Harm from Neonicotinoid Pesticides

Source: Beyond Pesticides  |   Jun 17 2013, 11:01pm CDT

(Beyond Pesticides, June 18, 2013) Neonicotinoid pesticides have broad ranging negative impacts not only on beneficial pollinators, but on overall biodiversity and ecosystem health, according to a new study published in the Journal of Applied E ...

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The Big Buzz About Mosquito Repellents

Source: CBS Miami  |   Jun 17 2013, 10:28pm CDT

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Would you stick your arm in a cage filled with 150 hungry Southern House mosquitoes, the very ones that carry the West Nile virus? Well, thankfully you don’t have to because researchers did just that to discover wh ...

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