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FDA Decision on Cloned Food Expected Soon [1]

FDA's decision on the sale of cloned meat and dairy products is expected soon.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [3]
Chemicals [4]
Food [5]
Technology [6]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about FDA Decision on Cloned Food Expected Soon [1]
EPA Doesn't Bother to Collect Chemical Safety Data From Companies [9]

Neither EPA nor the American public know very much about the possible health effects of tens of thousands of chemicals used in commerce and consumer products every day.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Consumer [11]
Government [12]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about EPA Doesn't Bother to Collect Chemical Safety Data From Companies [9]
USDA Stops Pesticide, Fertilizer Data [13]

The Bush administration is killing a longstanding program that publishes free the information it gathers on the application of pesticides and fertilizer by U.S. farmers.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [14]
Chemicals [4]
Agriculture [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about USDA Stops Pesticide, Fertilizer Data [13]
Report: 303 Industrial Facilities Pose High Terrorism Risk [15]

The strategy of changing chemical processes at industrial facilities so they use less hazardous materials, and pose less of a threat from terrorism and accidents, gained little traction in the Bush administration after 9/11. But a number of organizations continue to push the idea.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Report: 303 Industrial Facilities Pose High Terrorism Risk [15]
Gulf War Illness: It's Real, Afflicts About 200K Vets, Says Panel [16]

As the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, new light has been shed on the environmental health impacts of the 1991 Gulf War. On Nov. 17, 2008, the Congressionally-mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses released a major report which concluded that from 175,000 to 210,000 of the nearly 700,000 U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Health [17]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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USGS Maps Natural Asbestos in AZ, NV, and UT [18]

In the past few years, there have been several instances in which disturbance of sites containing naturally-occurring asbestos, via construction or other land use changes, has posed a potential health threat. As one tool for reducing such problems, on March 13, 2008, USGS released its fourth in a series of reports on US sites with naturally-occurring asbestos, covering 121 locations in AZ, NV, and UT.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [19]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about USGS Maps Natural Asbestos in AZ, NV, and UT [18]
Teflon Woes Still Sticking to Food Packaging [20]

California may be jumping the gun on EPA's voluntary phase-out of PFCs in food packaging.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Teflon Woes Still Sticking to Food Packaging [20]
Report: Lead from Hunting and Fishing Still Pollutes [21]

Hunters' lead shot and anglers' lead sinkers are still a pollution source, despite rules restricting them.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [4]
Natural Resources [22]
Pollution [23]
Region:
National (U.S.) [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
- Read more about Report: Lead from Hunting and Fishing Still Pollutes [21]

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