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• They Say: Pool Water's Toxic for Baby

  Nobody wants to think of their kids taking in sips full of toxic water. But a new study says all the disinfectants we've been using to keep our drinking and swimming water clean may be doing just the opposite.  The ten-year study funded by the Environmental Protection Agency found that disinfectants mixing with organic matter in our water to create "disinfectant by-products" (DBP) with some pretty risky consequences. Read More... Posted Apr 05 2009, 02:21 PM by JeanneSager with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: health, Cancer, babies, toxic, summer, toxins, water, swimming, green, pools, drinking water, Jeanne Sager, contamination, growing

• Now Chinese Coffee May Also Be Contaminated

  Think you're safe from melamine contamination because you don't have any infants on formula?  Think again.  The FDA issued a warning today for consumers to avoid instant coffee made in China after the distributor, King Car Food Industrial Co., recalled the coffees because of the possibility of melamine contamination. According to MSNBC, the recalled brands are . . .   Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 06:06 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with no comments Filed under: melamine, mr. brown coffee, instant coffee, chinese formula scandal, contamination