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Non-stick cookware linked to chronic kidney disease?
Does junk science stick to Teflon? A new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology purports to link perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs), including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane...
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Halloween face paint scare
Do you know what’s in your child’s face paint? That’s the question asked by this article in the Naples News: The ingredient list on the back of your child’s Halloween face paint reads like a science...
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Levis: Don’t wash your jeans — freeze them
The jeans maker and some of its customers don’t seem to know that water is the most abundant substance on Earth. From the front-page of today’s New York Times: From the cotton field in rural India to...
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Baby shampoo cancer allegations ‘false’
The use of quaternium-15 and 1,4-dioxane in personal care products is safe and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics’ allegations are false, says the Personal Care Products Council. Click for the PCPC...
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Toxic crib mattresses?
Are babies being poisoned while they sleep? That’s what the radical green front group Clean and Healthy New York is claiming in a new report to be released today. But there is no evidence of toxicity —...
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Video: The Truth About Children’s Bath Products
The Personal Care Products Council pushes back on the anti-chemical industry attack on baby shampoo in a new video. Related reading: Johnson & Johnson baby shampoo toxic? Baby shampoo cancer...
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WSJ: A Rule of Blind Injustice
“The new regulatory standard for household products is zero risk.” The Wall Street Journal editorializes, The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) never seems to take a day off, so we can’t...
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Defective CPSC chairman
Inez Tenenbaum’s “holier than thou” attitude appears to be the problem at the grid-locked Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Washington Post reports this morning about partisanship at the CPSC...
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WashTimes: China’s poisonous exports
Despite some exaggerated points about toxicity and risk, Brett Decker and William Triplett make some good points in the article about slipshod Chinese exports. Decker and Triplett write in the...
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Great! “Eco-friendly” tires that kill pepole
Like to be able to steer and brake your car? These tires probably aren’t for you. “Friction-reduced” tires will save fuel and reduce the number of drivers on the road though Eco-friendly tires that...
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Coca-Cola Modifies Caramel Color To Avoid Cancer Warning Label
The relentless assaults of Gaia-cranks and anti-industry loons as they attempt to inconvenience manufacturers and industry to death Chip, chip, chipping away at consumer trust and confidence with...
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Michael D. Shaw: What’s Really Green?
The recent announcement by GM that the company was halting production of the Chevrolet Volt until April, so as to maintain “proper inventory levels,” has reopened discussion of the merits of electric...
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Big Brother is watching – through your faucets?
Millions of homes could have smart water meters, devices that tell water companies immediately if households are breaking the hosepipe ban, as part of plans to combat drought conditions. A number of...
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Eye-roller: Kashi cereal’s ‘natural’ claims stir anger
Kellogg’s is facing anger on social media sites because of complaints that its popular Kashi brand of cold cereals doesn’t live up to the company’s “natural” billing on advertisements and box covers....
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California Heads for Vote on Modified Food Labeling
Californians are on course to vote whether genetically modified food must be labeled following a campaign that has targeted Monsanto Co. and other biotech-crop companies. Proponents of the measure...
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Connecticut Nixes Labeling From Genetically Engineered Food Bill
Connecticut might have become the first state to require labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). At least that was what a grassroots group of activists and numerous...
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Nancy Nord: A Voice of Reason. “Time to Discard the Precautionary Principle”
From RegBlog: Time to Discard the Precautionary Principle at the CPSC
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Battle brewing over labeling of genetically modified food
Product tampering, vandalism: “On a recent sunny morning at the Big Y grocery here, Cynthia LaPier parked her cart in the cereal aisle. With a glance over her shoulder and a quick check of the...
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Solar phobia: New Breed of Products Is Said to Offer Sun Protection, but...
Can a laundry detergent laced with sunscreen turn your clothes into protection from harmful ultraviolet rays? How about a shampoo that claims to do the same? This irrational fear of sunlight can...
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James D. Agresti: Bans on plastic bags harm the environment
With the urging of environmental groups backed by the celebrity firepower of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the city of Los Angles banned plastic supermarket bags last week. The law received added...
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House adopts measure to halt light-bulb efficiency law
Republicans in the U.S. House adopted a provision designed to save traditional incandescent light bulbs by blocking what one lawmaker called the “energy police” from enforcing an efficiency standard....
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Here’s a guy with a worthy goal of improving third world sanitation
Fund raising for such a goal is a tough gig but he seems flushed with enthusiasm SIMON Griffiths has spent the last 51 hours on the throne. Why? He’s raising cash for the developing world by fighting...
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Honesty not the best policy? San Francisco Officials Plan to Block Apple...
San Francisco city officials say they are moving to block purchases of Apple desktops and laptops, by all municipal agencies, after the company removed a green electronics certification from its...
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Appliance, vehicle standards stifle consumer choice — Brookings economist
The United States should shift away from setting standards that require new vehicles, electronics and household appliances to consume less energy because those rules rely on a “paternalistic”...
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Brian McGraw: Consumer Preferences Versus Energy Efficiency Regulations
The Mercatus Center released a paper (PDF) this month co-authored by Ted Gayer (an economist at the Brooking Institution) and W. Kip Viscusi (an economics professor at Vanderbilt), titled “Overriding...
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Elaine Watson: Is the food industry under attack from an ‘NGO/media complex’?
With NGOs increasingly turning their attention to food production – and often doing a better job than the food industry of engaging with the media – the debate about issues from biotechnology to BPA...
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Olympics sponsorship: supporting sport or funding fat?
What does the Olympics stand for: is it the inspiration for a healthier, sportier community? Or is it just another way to sell junk food and booze to an ever-fatter, ever-drunker population of couch...
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If Companies Were Responsible For Recycling, Would We Do It More?
People are not so great at remembering to recycle in their daily lives. Could we increase the U.S.’s anemic recycling rates if companies were required by law to recycle the products they make? In a...
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J&J Removing Harsh Chemicals From Products by 2015
“Johnson & Johnson plans to remove trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic products worldwide within 3 1/2...
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Lawyers From Suits Against Big Tobacco Target Food Makers
These ratbags are putting their hands in your pockets. Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, took in hundreds of millions of dollars a decade ago after suing Big Tobacco and winning record settlements...
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Food processing: Telling the other side of the story
Longtime journalist says antagonism toward processed food requires strong, consistent response. Against a constellation of journalists, consumer groups and academics aligned against them, processed...
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‘Poverty Returning’: Unilever Cuts Package Sizes in Euro Crisis
Consumer goods giant Unilever is now offering smaller packages to keep pace with the thinner wallets of its European customers. The company says the strategy comes from the developing economies in Asia...
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White House finalizes 2025 ‘historic’ fuel rules for automakers
The Obama administration has finalized the landmark 2017-25 fuel economy rules that will nearly double the efficiency of the nation’s cars and trucks over the next 13 years to a fleet-wide average of...
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23 Skiddoo to “23andme” chromosomal screening
A couple of weeks ago the FDA came down, hard, on the “do it yourself” “Personal Genome Service” tests offered by Google-affilliated “23andme.com”, effectively shutting down their sales. Their concern...
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FDA taking a closer look at “antibacterial” soaps
[excerpts from FDA press release] FDA Taking Closer Look at ‘Antibacterial’ Soap When you’re buying soaps and body washes, do you reach for the bar or bottle labeled “antibacterial”? Are you thinking...
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Junk DNA, Junk DNA. Paging Rosalind Russell…
[NY Times] I Had My DNA Picture Taken, With Varying Results ….. “I’m a healthy 28-year-old woman, but some nasty diseases run in my family: coronary heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s and...
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Canada has their nannystate folk, too. Bans… Ovaltine™ and other common foods
courtesy of the BBC: “The owner of a British food shop in Canada says he has been ordered to stop selling Marmite, Ovaltine and Irn Bru because they contain illegal additives. “Tony Badger, who owns...
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Green meatballs
IKEA is planning to green up its meatballs and is getting help from the World Wildlife Fund. So, does anyone come up with how many degrees of global warming this will save the planet? I ran across a...
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A war I missed
Were you aware that there was a cheese war between the FDA and libs? According to the Business and Media Institute and Forbes, on June 7 the FDA issued an executive order banning aging artisan cheese...
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Pretend Petrol isn’t important–then live with your stupid
The fracking change is much more important than you can imagine–petrol products are essential to modern life. Control of oil reserves and production determines a lot of things–that’s why wars break out...
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