BPA, the FDA, and 5 million dollars http://tinyurl.com/46hp5s

Baby Development – Cold Medicines to Add Child Advisory | MumMums
Announced Tuesday, manufacturers of pediatric cold and cough medicines will change their labels advising their products not be used by children under 4. The announcement follows an FDA scientific panel’s testimony on the issue just last week. In...

EPA ignores the toxic threat in our drinking water - Salt Lake Tribune
Care for a glass of rocket fuel?: EPA ignores a toxic threat. Melamine contamination of Chinese milk products has sickened more than 50,000 infants. Tens of thousands have been hospitalized, including a few who have died. Now all of Asia is in a panic. ...

JS Online: Donation raises questions for head of FDA’s bisphenol A panel
A retired medical supply manufacturer who considers bisphenol A to be “perfectly safe” gave $5 million to the research center of Martin Philbert, chairman of the Food and Drug Association panel about to make a pivotal ruling on the chemical’s...

Congress Will Investigate Digitek Recall And What FDA Knew About Actavis Manufacturing Problems http://tinyurl.com/4yoj2j

Drug Injury Watch: Congress Will Investigate Digitek Recall And What FDA Knew About Actavis Manufacturing Problems
After Earlier Class 1 Recall Of Digitek, All Acvtavis Drugs Manufactured At Its Little Falls, NJ Plant Were Recalled In August 2008

Cell Phones and Cancer: More Research Needed: A large-scale study of the long-term effects of cell-phone use needs to be carried out, medical professionals said at a congressional hearing
You've been warned - don't give cell phones to those under 16. Should really be ever...OK only for emergencies. Reading the article and the CTIA comment about research stating there is no link between 'wireless usage and cancer'...

Big Pharma Goes Before Supreme Court To Get State Lawsuits Banned [Wyeth]
"Pre-emption" is a legal doctrine that says the federal government can claim all regulatory power over an area or subject, barring states from acting on their own. The drug maker Wyeth has brought a case before the Supreme Court arguing that a woman in...

Green News Roundup 10-05-08
15 green business and environmental stories from late September covering topics in bioplastics, regulation, water, clean coal, and standards among others.