Tag: contamination
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#MorningMonarchy: August 1, 2017
Robot maps, poison papers and the right stuff + this day in history w/MTV’s launch and our song of the day by Belle & Sebastian on your Morning Monarchy for August 1, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 22, 2017
Overwhelmed cafes, meal deals and euthanasia agents + this day in history w/Best New Artist and our song of the day by Surfer Blood on your Morning Monarchy for February 22, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: December 7, 2016
Something about pizza, toxic armories and the future of farming + this day in history w/”A date which will live in infamy” and our song of the day by Robyn Hitchcock on your Morning Monarchy for December 7, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 10, 2016
Portland Public fools, GMO mosquitoes and baby chimeras + this day in history w/Agent Orange and our song of the day by the Pixies on your Morning Monarchy for August 10, 2016.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: There Was Never Marijuana In The Colorado Water (Video)
The military is again told to stop killing animals with sonar; that big headline about Colorado pot contamination was just a bunch of smoke on the water; and the farmer wins again.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Stopping Sonar, Marijuana Water, Vindicating Farmers (Audio)
The military is again told to stop killing animals with sonar; that big headline about Colorado pot contamination was just a bunch of smoke on the water; and the farmer wins again.
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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…
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The US Meat Processing Company At The Rotten Center of China’s Latest Food Scandal
from QZ.com: A US-owned factory in Shanghai is at the center of China’s latest food scandal: Chinese health authorities have suspended operations at Shanghai Husi Food, owned by the Illinois-based OSI Group, for reprocessing old and discarded meat to extend its use-by date. Husi was supplying meat to KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s restaurants in China. Staff…
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Cancer-inducing benzene traced in China water supply
from RT.com: Residents of Lanzhou, northwest China, have started panic-buying bottled water after city authorities confirmed the lethal chemical compound benzene was contaminating the city’s drinking water at 20 times the national safety level. Lanzhou warned its 2.4 million residents not to consume any water from the tap on Friday after tests conducted at a…
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Infected meat could reach UK’s plates, inspectors warn
Fears expressed over shakeup in rules that shifts responsibility for checking quality shifts to food companies. from theguardian.co.uk: Food inspectors have issued a grim warning that more infected animals could enter the food chain because of a shakeup in the inspection process which, they say, means some of the millions of animals they reject each…
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West Virginia official says residents are breathing cancer-causing agent after chemical spill
from blacklistednews.com: A West Virginia state official told legislators on Wednesday that he “can guarantee” some residents are breathing in a cancer-causing substance due to the chemical spill that occurred earlier in January. In a recent meeting with a state legislative committee on water resources, Scott Simonton of the West Virginia Environmental Quality Board said…
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Fracking study finds combustible levels of methane in water after EPA gave the all clear
from RT.com: A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Steve Lipsky, a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, complained to the Environmental…
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Over 1,000 ill in Japanese frozen food scandal
from sbs.com.au: More than 1,000 people have fallen ill after eating pesticide-contaminated frozen food as a scandal widens across Japan, Jiji Press has reported. People have reported vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning after eating products including pizza and lasagne made by a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings, the nation’s largest seafood firm.…
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Breast Milk Bought Online May Contain Harmful Germs
Nearly three-quarters of samples from an Internet milk-sharing site contained microbes that could make a baby sick from webmd.com: The researchers did not name the specific websites used in their study but said the contaminated samples came from a U.S. milk-sharing website that uses a classified ad format. Of 101 samples purchased anonymously, nearly three-quarters…
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Arsenic Contamination Threatens Water in Hanoi
from NYTimes.com: Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from Pakistan to China. When it gets into underground aquifers, as has happened in Bangladesh, it can contaminate public water supplies and cause illness and death. Now researchers say arsenic is leaching into a major drinking-water aquifer that…