Newly released government email communications show a persistent effort by multiple officials within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slow a separate federal agency’s safety review...
August 17, 2017
Does Science Media Centre Promote Corporate Views of Science?
The Science Media Centre (SMC) is a nonprofit PR agency started in the UK that gets its largest block of funding from industry groups. Current and past funders include Bayer, DuPont, Monsanto,...
July 20, 2017
Jon Entine and Genetic Literacy Project Spin Chemical Industry PR
Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is a central player in Monsanto and the agrichemical industry’s public relations efforts to promote genetically engineered foods and...
July 18, 2017
Trump’s New CDC Pick Boosts Agency’s Ties To Coca Cola
See also: New York Times, by Sheila Kaplan, 7/22/2017: "New C.D.C. Chief Saw Coca-Cola as Ally in Obesity Fight" Forbes, Part 2 by Rob Waters, "The Coca-Cola Network: Soda Giant Mines...
July 10, 2017
Monsanto Spin Doctors Target Cancer Scientist In Flawed Reuters Story
In a well-orchestrated and highly coordinated media coup, Monsanto Co. and friends this week dropped a bombshell on opponents who are seeking to prove that the company’s beloved Roundup...
June 19, 2017
The American Council on Science and Health is a Corporate Front Group
The American Council on Science and Health is a front group for the tobacco, agrichemical, fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and other industries. A leaked ACSH financial summary, released in 2013 by...
June 17, 2017
Of Mice, Monsanto and a Mysterious Tumor
Call it the case of the mysterious mouse tumor. It’s been 34 years since Monsanto Co. presented U.S. regulators with a seemingly routine study analyzing the effects the company’s best-selling...
June 8, 2017
FDA Resumes Testing Foods For Weed Killer, Safety Questions Grow
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has resumed its first-ever endeavor to evaluate how much of a controversial chemical is making its way into the U.S. food supply. And the tests can’t come...
June 8, 2017
Top Findings of the U.S. Right To Know Investigations
Documents obtained by USRTK offer a rare look into the secrets of food and chemical corporations Since 2015, U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit consumer and public health watchdog group, has obtained...
June 1, 2017
Canadians Report Weed Killer Detected in 30 Percent of Food Tested
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has gone where the U.S. government dares not tread – testing thousands of foods commonly consumed by its citizens for residues of a controversial herbicide...
April 12, 2017