How Chronic and Subchronic Health Effects Can Be Neglected for GMOs, Pesticides or Chemicals

Scientists corroborated the decade-long criticism by public interest organizations such as the Organic Consumers Association, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, that unreliable tests have been used to assess the safety of food and products containing genetically modified organisms [...]

Pesticide Exposure Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

Reporting in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, senior author Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, and first author Sadie Costello, a former doctoral student at UCLA, now at the University of California, Berkeley, found that Valley residents who lived within 500 meters of fields sprayed between the years of 1974-1999 had a 75 percent increased risk to [...]