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June 12, 2018

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School’s Out for Summer, Let’s Get Lead Out Forever

By Kara Cook-Schultz, U.S. PIRG School is nearly out for the summer. The season is an occasion for long days at the beach, family vacations and backyard barbecues. It’s also an opportunity for school districts across the country to replace fixtures and pipes that contain the potent neurotoxin lead. In 2015, Americans watched in horror […]

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Food Safety Foes? Digital Ledger Technology vs. Confidential Business Information

By the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy As of June 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated that they could not determine the site-specific origins of the contamination by the E. coli (STEC) 0157 of romaine lettuce that began in late 2017. Consumer Reports had advised […]