via Product testing: Bill would require cosmetics to be tested for hidden hazards – chicagotribune.com.

via Are Everyday Consumer Products Making People Sick? A Q&A with Paul D. Blanc: Scientific American.

“Another study raises concerns about e-waste recycling and its health effects after researchers report that pregnant women in China who live nearer the facilities have higher levels of toxic chemicals and depressed levels of thyroid hormones.”

via Chemicals higher, thyroid hormone lower in pregnant women near e-waste recycling. — Environmental Health News.

“Columbia University has quietly suspended research at a nationally prominent brain-imaging center and reassigned its top managers after federal investigators found that it had routinely injected mental patients with drugs that contained potentially dangerous impurities.”

via Brain Center at Columbia Gave Patients Impure Drugs – NYTimes.com.

“Especially at this stage of a recovery, businesses and economists want to see people of all incomes spending more, because the demand for goods and services would in turn encourage companies to hire workers. The American consumer accounts for an estimated 60 percent of the country’s economic activity.”

via The Rich Catch Everyone Else’s Cutback Fever – NYTimes.com.

Another good reason to eat your vegetables!

“The overuse of antibiotics in farming may have significant health consequences for consumers, according to testimony from the Food and Drug Administration. Now lawmakers are looking to curb the use of antibiotics in raising livestock, a move that puts them at odds with agribusiness interests.”

via FDA Calls Antibiotic Use In Farming ‘A Serious Public Health Threat,’ GOP Ignores Mounting Evidence.

Researchers who conducted the study downplayed the potential effects for the 5 million people along the 981-mile river who use it for drinking water. The contaminants, they said, are in extremely low concentrations.

But outside scientists who reviewed the data noted that some of the pollutants have been tied to feminization of male fish, effects that should serve as a warning to people.

“When we see something this basic being altered in fish, we should be concerned about what it’s doing to our own health,” said biologist Peter DeFur, a research associate professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who specializes in chemical contaminants in the environment and was not involved in the study.

via Ohio River study finds drugs, chemicals that slip through waste treatment | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal.

Jason Glaser acknowledged he was being paid by lawyers representing the workers who claim pesticides made them sterile. But he said his tapes of mysterious “John Doe” witnesses, one of which was played in court Friday, may have helped or harmed either side in the lawsuit.

Glaser told Judge Victoria Chaney he is concerned about his safetyas a result of testifying.

via Filmmaker in Dole case: I was never a ‘yes man’ – KMPH Fox 26 Central San Joaquin Valley News Source in Fresno, California Entertainment, News, Sports and Weather |.

Obvious outcomes of TCDD exposure can include nausea, vomiting, headache, loss of appetite, changes in blood testosterone levels, erectile dysfunction, and rashes, including a severe and disfiguring condition called chloracne.

Illnesses that develop over time following TCDD exposure include cancer, diabetes, high blood cholesterol and triglycerides, death from cardiovascular disease and heart disease, liver damage, gum and skin pigmentation, poor mineralization of molars in children, thyroid dysfunction and excessive growth of body hair.

via Significance of dioxin understated. — Environmental Health News.