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Maine board backs ban on BPA in baby-food packaging
Portland Press Herald - 1/17/2013. By Michael Shepherd - Maine's Board of Environmental Protection took a preliminary vote Thursday to ban sales of baby food and infant formula in containers made with the chemical additive bisphenol-A. If approved in a final vote and adopted by the Legislature, the initiative will make Maine the third state to impose BPA bans that exceed federal standards.

Online magazine in Portland tracks health food industry
Portland Press Herald - 1/16/2013.

By Avery Yale Kamila - Dan McGovern works in a growth industry. As the founder and editor of Sustainable Food News, McGovern, 44, is immersed in the expanding and fast-moving world of better-for-you-food. Produced in Portland, the online business magazine publishes Monday through Friday and chronicles the health food industry's latest news and trends.

Will World Act to Protect Bees from Pesticidal 'Nerve Agent'?
Common Dreams - 1/16/2013.

Jon Queally - In what environmental campaigners say could be the hopeful "death knell" for a certain family of pesticides long believed to be harming the health of the world's bee colonies, a new report released Wednesday says that use of such chemicals should be deeply curtailed and urgency given to identify potential risks the chemicals pose to other plant pollinators.

Enviro Crusader Turns Pro-GMO, Anti-Organic - And Anti-Logic
Grist - 1/16/2013. By Tom Philpott - Earlier this month, Mark Lynas, a prominent UK environmentalist and author, delivered a blunt attack on critics of agricultural biotechnology at a farming conference at Oxford University.

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