Consumer Reports: All natural may be misleading
THE BEST LABEL TO LOOK FOR IS USDA ORGANIC. ANOTHER OPTION, IF YOU SHOP AT WHOLE FOODS, LOOK FOR THEIR PREMIUM BODY CARE SEAL. THAT MEANS THAT PRODUCTS ARE FREE FROM OVER 400 INGREDIENTS. CONSUMER …
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How Do You Make Republicans Care About Animal Testing? Anthony Bellotti
Look, $ 12 billion tax dollars per year for animal experiments is simply the floor, not the ceiling of the government's animal experimentation budget. It's just what the NIH publicly admits to (and doesn't even include EPA, USDA, Pentagon and other …
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VIASPACE Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Elite Therapeutics – Chairman
1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — VIASPACE Inc. (OTC: VSPC) today announced that it has signed a nonbinding Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire luxury cosmetics company, Elite Therapeutics (www.elitetherapeutics.com). VIASPACE and Elite Therapeutics have …. The …
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Consumer group: Counterfeit makeup tested, contains lead
NSF International, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., tested two counterfeit products types — mascara and compact foundation — from two different sources. The tests uncovered a high level of lead in the counterfeit compact powder, according to The …
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0k NSF grant to research environmental impacts of fullerene-based
… are the recipients of a new research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the lifecycle environmental impacts of fullerene-based materials—a form of engineered nanomaterials used in solar cells, drug delivery systems and …
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