This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
鈥淭hree thousand six hundred food packaging chemicals detected in human bodies: How reheating food is killing us.鈥�
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥� But here is one. Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer! There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it. And...
Bisphenol A (BPA) first hit the headlines in 2008 when Canada banned polycarbonate baby bottles because of possible leaching of the chemical from the plastic into the contents. Concern had been...
A liner prevents the metal from reacting with the can鈥檚 contents. The concern is about bisphenol A (BPA), one of the components used to produce the epoxy resin, leaching out into the food or...
When you are spending money at a store, the cost may be more than the amount shown on the cash register receipt. According to some researchers, there is a cost to health. That鈥檚 because handling...
Bisphenol A (BPA) has been the subject of much recent controversy due to reports that it can cause birth defects, impaired sugar control as well as other health problems in rodents. 聽Bisphenol A is...
A question came up about the risks of chemicals leaching out of those convenient coffee K cups. Yes, chemicals do leach out. That of course is the idea, you want to leach out the hundreds of...
I must say that I have never previously heard a study described as 鈥渕ajestically scientific.鈥� 聽But the British do have a way with words. And those were the words that Dr. Richard Sharpe of the...
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