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Here’s what we all should learn from that scary tampon study

Association of Health Care Journalists

Do the companies even know they’re present? Now that the study has shone a light on a potential public health issue, “there’s a lot of complicated questions that arise out that a study like this isn’t set up to or even intended to answer,” Spaeth said. Are they in the raw materials? The processing? Are they added for a purpose?

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Ghee Tested for Toxic Phthalates — Buying Guide

Mercola

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene

NC Health News

He is an engineering professor at North Carolina State University who focuses on sanitation systems. It’s hard enough dealing with the present. Barring any changes, the region is at risk of simply rebuilding what it has, only to watch it all wash away in the next big flood, said Francis de los Reyes.