(Organic Slant) Researchers in Japan have developed a way to detect caesium contamination on a scale of millimetres enabling the detection of small areas of radioactive contamination. The research is published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. Radioactive leaks, such as at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, contaminate the local environment. Contamination of […]
Cesium levels continue to rise in Pacific ocean and plankton
(Organic Slant) Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima plant was found at 10 points in the Pacific Ocean, including a location as far as 1300 miles from the plant, less than a year after Fukushima nuclear disaster began, scientists revealed. Researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology were among the team members who released […]
Invisible GM Ingredients
(Organic Slant) Processed foods often have hidden genetically modified (GM) sources (unless they are organic or declared non-GMO). The following are ingredients that may be made from GMOs: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) although usually derived from corn, is probably not GM because it is not likely made in North America. Aspartame baking powder caramel color […]
The World According to Monsanto
(Organic Slant) Monsanto controls Congress, the Senate, the President, and they control most political entities around the world. They have unlimited money and the power to control regulations enacted by the USDA, the FDA, and who knows what departments around the world. There’s nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, […]
FDA Warning Against 3 Organic Health Products
(Organic Slant) The Philippine Food and Drug Administration has warned the public against three “unregistered” organic health products that claim to cure cancer. The FDA warns the public to refrain from buying unregistered health products, and food supplement and herbal products with label claims as anti-cancer or as cure against cancer. In its advisory, the FDA […]
Real Cinnamon vs. Fake Cinnamon
(Organic Slant) Perhaps surprisingly, many Americans have probably never tasted real cinnamon, which is derived from certain species of trees native to Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. Ceylon and cassia cinnamon are the most common commercially produced cinnamon varieties. Ceylon cinnamon is often called “true” cinnamon and comes primarily from Sri Lanka. Cassia is also called […]
Coumarin in Cinnamon and Cinnamon-Based Products and Risk of Liver Damage
(Organic Slant) Many kinds of cinnamon, cinnamon-flavored foods, beverages and food supplements in the United States use a form of the spice that contains high levels of a natural substance that may cause liver damage in some sensitive people, scientists are reporting. Their study, published in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found similar results […]
Scientists discover cinnamon compounds’ potential ability to prevent Alzheimer’s
(Organic Slant) Cinnamon: Can the red-brown spice with the unmistakable fragrance and variety of uses offer an important benefit? The common baking spice might hold the key to delaying the onset of –– or warding off –– the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. That is, according to Roshni George and Donald Graves, scientists at UC Santa […]
Human Genes Engineered into GMO Rice
(Organic Slant) Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria […]
FDA List of Completed Consultations on Bioengineered Foods
(Organic Slant) The FDA provides a list of such foods in its inventory of completed consultations on bioengineered foods. The inventory below lists all completed consultations on bioengineered foods evaluated under FDA’s 1992 Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties. More information about this inventory is available on the Introduction page to the FDA List of Completed […]