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"Require health warnings on food labels Another proposal that I especially like is requiring warning labels on foods similar to the warning labels now posted on cigarette packaging. If you buy a pack of cigarettes in the United States, the label warns you that this product causes cancer or other chronic diseases. The same sort of warning labels should be required on foods and soft drinks and other products that contain ingredients known to promote disease. This is the only way the average consumer will be made aware of the correlation between these foods and their long-term health impacts." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"In the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded in 2004 that there was no competent evidence to support concerns about safety in the use of black cohosh in breast cancer patients and that there is inadequate evidence that black cohosh preparations are causally associated with hepatotoxicity. No warning labels are required on black cohosh products in the United States. In the recent Osmers study, liver enzyme testing was done, and there was no adverse effect on liver function tests." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"I asked him about the increased blood pressure and heart problems I had read about in the warning labels printed by Novartis, the maker of Ritalin, and he raised his brows as if to say, "Now, that is a new one." He said he knows that some people believe the stimulant has stunted their children's growth. But as far as he knows, "Ritalin is the most tested medication that is on the market. "My wife will tell me she sees kids who are zombies after taking their meds," he said. "I say, 'Well, they're taking the wrong ones.'" Hurley said he likes to tell the people he meets, "Hi." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, this law was superseded by national legislation that prohibits states from enacting food contamination standards and warning labels that are stricter than federal requirements. Lobbyists from food companies succeeded in getting Congress to pass this bill. In addition, cooked carbohydrates contain glycotoxins, one of which is an "advanced glycation end product" (AGE). AGEs contaminate the body, making it vulnerable to cancer and molds, such as Candida albicans and other yeast infections." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Now, soy experts are again calling for clear and proper warning labels on all soy milk products—following this and several other babies' hospitalizations or deaths under similar circumstances. Only soy products, such as miso, tempeh and natto provide soy nutrients that can easily be absorbed and utilized by the body. To make soy products nutritious and healthy, they must be carefully fermented—according to the traditional preparation methods used in Japan. Typically, soy must be fermented for at least two summers, ideally for 5-6 years, before it becomes beneficial for the body." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Most of the panel also recommended warning labels that detailed the drug's danger and also a ban on consumer advertising. The panel then voted 31-1 that Pfizer should be allowed to continue selling Celebrex, and 17-15 that Merck could sell Vioxx.47 "At least the pharmaceutical lawyers must be happy," I said. "The panel's endorsement of both drugs will definitely help Merck and Pfizer fend off the hundreds of lawsuits already filed by patients and their survivors." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Not knowing what I was looking for, I came blindly upon reports from the FDA's Arthritis Advisory Committee meeting of February 7-8, 2001, which had been held specifically to go over the FDA reviewers' analyses of the data from the CLASS and VIGOR studies in order to consider the manufacturers' requests to remove warning labels about the risk of ulcers from Celebrex and Vioxx." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"This risk is even emphasized by explicit cigarette warning labels. There is no such warning and assumption of risk by the worldwide users of cosmetics and personal care products. Evidence for the carcinogenicity of cigarette smoke is largely and persuasively based on epidemiological studies comparing lung cancer and other cancer rates in non-smokers and smokers. While the chemistry of cigarette smoke and of cosmetics and personal care products is very different, several of the same carcinogens have been identified in both, including formaldehyde, mtrosodiethanolamine, arsenic, DDT, and Endrin." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Examples include blocking an "unneeded New York State bill—to require cancer warning labels on cosmetic talc powder," and attempting to block the 2005 California State Cosmetic Act. One of its broader initiatives is to defeat other State bills requiring "new and unnecessary warnings" for cosmetics and personal care products (1)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "A Web site that features cosmetics and personal care products with full lists of product ingredients along with any relevant warning labels. (www.drugstore.com) Appendix Three Industry Trade Associations and What They Conceal From You There are four major worldwide trade groups: the Personal Care Products Council in the U.S. (formerly known as the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, CTFA); the European Trade Association (COLIPA); the Japanese Cosmetic Industry Association (JCIA); and the International Fragrance Association (IFRA)." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "More than half of all asthmatics have reported experiencing asthma attacks triggered by fragrances or odors, and numerous allergenic ingredients have been identified in perfumes. warning labels for twenty-six of them are already required by the European Union. This may also provide a clue as to why one in ten people in the U.S. suffer from bouts of asthma, compared to only one in twenty of the world's population. The U.S. has long been the world's leading innovator in adding fragrances to products, especially cosmetics and personal care products. Also, "The prevalence of asthma (in the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"I think a much better choice would be to put large warning labels on the foods, and at that point, let the food companies be immune to such lawsuits. I think that's a fair way to approach it. If you warn citizens with honest food labeling, then the citizens shouldn't be able to sue the food companies. That way it's the consumer's responsibility to decide what they want to do." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"News, (2004), reporter Beth Hawkins went so far as to say that FDA honchos opposed new warning labels for antidepressants for fear it would leave pharmaceutical corporations open to liability.5 The money that pours into our teaching, research, and private institutions not only produces biased results, it also produces a "black hole"6 into which negative results magically disappear. A reporting of complete trial results—both biased and "black hole" unreported information—would probably indicate that the combination of children and antidepressants is a ticking time bomb." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Warning labels: There are no warning labels on basin, tub, and tile cleaners. HOMEMADE ALTERNATIVES Use a nonchlorine scouring powder. Bleach_ Harmful ingredients: chlorine, lye, artificial dyes, detergents, fluorescent brighteners, synthetic fragrances. Environmental alert: Chlorine fumes contribute to depletion of the ozone layer. Warning labels: "caution: Keep out of reach of children. May be harmful if swallowed or may cause severe eye irritation. Never mix chlorine bleach with cleaning products containing ammonia, or with vinegar. The re-suiting chloramine fumes are deadly." - Debra Lynn Dadd, Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise (Get the book.)

"Now, soy experts are again calling for clear and proper warning labels on all soy milk products—following this and several other babies' hospitalizations or deaths under similar circumstances. Only properly fermented soy products, such as miso and tempeh, provide soy nutrients that can easily be absorbed. To make soy products nutritious and healthy, they must be carefully fermented—according to the traditional preparation methods used in Japan. Typically, soy must be fermented for at least two summers, ideally for 5-6 years, before it becomes beneficial for the body." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"One FDA rule, for example, requires that warning labels be put on products that contain ingredients "whose safety has not been determined." But it is the cosmetic companies, not the FDA, that make that determination. While the cosmetic companies assert that their products are safe, 89 percent of the ingredients used in cosmetics today have not been assessed by either the FDA or by industry." Nor are there clear guidelines defining what is meant by "safe." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The same article also reported that 15 percent of the feed mills were nor using required warning labels. "There are 1,829 unlicensed feed mills that handle meat and bone meat, and a third of them did not comply with the labeling requirements. In addition, eighteen percent did not have systems to prevent mixups in feed ingredients."27 Many cats have died from the feline form of BSE in Europe after eating contaminated pet food. No cases of FSE have been documented in cats in the United States or Canada." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"The same sort of warning labels should be required on foods and soft drinks and other products that contain ingredients known to promote disease. This is the only way the average consumer will be made aware of the correlation between these foods and their long-term health impacts. If someone picks up a six-pack of soft drinks, they should notice a warning label that says, "Warning: This product promotes obesity and diabetes." That's the plain truth about soft drinks. No scientist or doctor in his right mind would argue against such a statement." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The British government has issued a call for clear warning labels (why warn people if it is so safe?), but only a few manufacturers have complied, claiming that it would "clutter up" their labels and confuse consumers. Yet it is more confusing to the consumer not to know whether a food product contains aspartame or saccharin than to know it. A survey conducted by BBC2's Money Program revealed that up to 40 percent of the public do not expect to find artificial sweeteners in their fruit juices and drinks, not to mention in their foods." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Not only are food companies producing and marketing food that contain disease-promoting ingredients, they are failing to properly warn consumers about those health risks by printing warning labels on those foods. Even cigarette companies now have to label cigarettes with warnings that say smoking promotes cancer and birth defects. But food companies can market all sorts of cancer causing ingredients without having to warn consumers at all. As a result, consumers are right now eating massive quantities of foods and food ingredients that directly promote disease." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Dru£ News More 'Black-Box' Drugs Are Being Prescribed Incorrectly n a recent sampling, nearly 42% of US patients were receiving prescriptions for drugs that had "black-box" warning labels. The labels—printed in a black frame , in the package insert as well as on all promotional materials—advise people of the potential risks of using that medication and represent the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) highest warning." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Over-the-counter generic medications and supplements in all forms that preclude FDA regulation should have warning labels added. The number of deaths caused by over-the-counter medications in combination with prescription drugs would be comparable to the number of lives lost if a 747 airliner fell out of the sky every day. You, the juror, are asked to consider whether the many-ten-tacled media is nothing more than a parasite, lacking knowledge of criminal behavior." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"Highly toxic pesticides are often used by workers who can't read the warning labels in Spanish, English, and German, or who have had insufficient training in pesticide application. However, the vast majority of coffee is still grown on small farms of a few acres. In many countries the farmers are keenly aware of the importance of interplanting and maintaining biodiversity for the health of the land and of their families. "Shade-grown" and "Bird-friendly" were concepts well known to small farmers long before international environmental groups took an interest in the coffeelands." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"The agency went so far as to support the EDF's campaign for warning labels on gas station pumps should any fuels containing MMT actually come on the market. Of note, this highly unusual public stance by a federal regulatory agency coincided with the Democratic Party's political offensive concentrating on environmental issues during the presidential campaign in the spring of 1996. Ethyl countered briskly." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"The FDA told Eli Lilly, in September of 2003, to place warning labels on Zyprexa, which Lilly did not fully implement until 2005. Many individuals taking Zyprexa during this time developed diabetes and believe their condition was caused by the drug. Their suit relates to Eli Lilly's failure to warn them. There Are Names Attached to Statistics Take the story of Rob Liversridge, a man suffering from manic depression and under the care of his mother. On February 21, 2006, Op-EdNews.com published an article by Evelyn Pringle, "Zyprexa Medicaid Gravy Train Derailed." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Until fairly recently, arsenate-tteated lumber has been freely available in every home supply store across the country. warning labels, spawned by the voluntary system of industty-supervised consumer education, have proven to be no guarantee that every hapless Bob Villa wannabe can't convert "this old house" into a split-level toxic waste dump. Arsenic contamination of children's playgrounds became sufficiently high profile that even the slow-moving Consumer Product Safety Commission was finally compelled to take up the issue." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) "Rather than affixing warning labels, we may need to restrict the components of cleaning products in cerrain instances or modify or outright prohibit specific delivery devices, especially delivery systems that form very small droplets of bleach suspended in the ait. It is also important for us to recognize that consumer consumption of chlorine is driven by mass marketing. The advertising industry is not sacrosanct; alcohol and tobacco restrictions provide ample precedent for actions that can be taken in deference to the higher priority of public protection over unfettered commercial access." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Whenever he could, Wolfe campaigned for warning labels, and in 1984 Public Citizen Health went into the U.S. District Court (D.C.) to litigate the issue of unreasonable delay in requiring warning labels for aspirin products.12 Finally, on March 15, 1985, Wolfe appeared before the House Health Subcommittee chaired by Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to urge the passage of H.R. 1381, a bill to require warning labels, advertisements, and store signs concerning aspirin and Reye's syndrome." - Herbert Burkholz, The FDA Follies (Get the book.)

"Instead of banning benzene, the CPSC fell back to a standard position requiring warning labels on glues containing solvents. Its current regulations detail that the designation danger, along with the warning Harmful or fatal if swallowed, must be present when solvents such as toluene make up 10 percent or more of a product by weight. Benzene is a special case for the CPSC." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"In 1996, the Calorie Control Council asked for elimination of the warning labels for saccharin and the FDA agreed, "consistent with the Administration's 'Reinventing Government' initiative which seeks to ease burdens on regulated industry and consumers." In 1998, the Calorie Control Council petitioned the National Toxicology Program to remove saccharin from its carcinogen listings and, in the absence of evidence for overt harm to people, the program did so in 2000." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

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