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Friday, June 1, 2012

Fire retardants in peanut butter?!

From Huff Post Green: "In a new study of popular products purchased from grocery stores in Dallas, Texas, researchers found that nearly half of the sampled peanut butter and cold cuts, as well as turkey, fish, beef and other fatty foods, contained traces of a flame retardant commonly used in the foam insulation of building walls."

This is not about an additive that happens to also be a flame retardant.  This article is about substances that get into food that have no business being there.  It is chilling.

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Posted by Donna M. Byrne, William Mitchell College of Law

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