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Toxic Soup
During processing, is it possible that herbicides, pesticides and other poisons could be mixed with pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, dried foods, powdered drinks and supplements?
The answer is clearly - yes.
By D.H.Elzer and Sofia Porter
Watershed Intelligence Network
Toolkit Series
One event which increased FDA awareness of the potential for cross-contamination due to inadequate procedures was the recall of a finished drug product. The bulk pharmaceutical chemical used to produce the product had become contaminated with low levels of intermediates and degradants from the production of agricultural pesticides. The cross-contamination in that case is believed to have been due to the reuse of recovered solvents. The recovered solvents had been contaminated because of a lack of control over the reuse of solvent drums. Drums that had been used to store recovered solvents from a pesticide production process were later used to store recovered solvents used for the resin manufacturing process.
This book poses tough questions regarding food security and how industrial Spray Drying can present a risk where food, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals can be cross-contaminated with harmful chemicals and pesticides.
The story unfolds in a remote mountainous area of British Columbia where D.H.Elzer was reporting on a government effort to spray a vast area of forest with a Btk pesticide. The blanket application of pesticide challenged biodiversity within an interior rainforest. Through this event Elzer followed a Btk shipping label to a spray drying facility in Osage, Iowa and from that point began uncovering documentation as to how our foods, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, chemicals and pesticides are moved into a concentrated form – and just how dangerous and questionable that process is.
Elzer has teamed up with investigative journalist Sofia Porter and together they expose and critique yet another serious health issue facing the planet. They present tough questions to industry and government regarding the possibility of cross-contamination between chemicals, food and drugs.
Toxic soup is a valuable toolkit on an issue that lurks in the shadows of yet another food and wellness security issue and provides some insight as to how corporations and big government control outcomes.
D.H.Elzer is a journalist and activist based in British Columbia, he is also a wildcrafter who has become well-known for his inventions using natural materials and wild botanicals found in nature. He has been an early advocate for the preservation of medicinal plants in wilderness areas. As an activist, he has been demanding that governments everywhere protect biodiversity so that ecosystems can generate their natural medicines for the good of the planet.
Sofia Porter lives in southwest Florida where her activism was fueled by her observations of the Gulf of Mexico. Aware of the risks to the already fragile eco-systems threatened by large corporate industry; she’s been a political insider, researcher and freelance writer who works largely out of Boston. She travels extensively throughout the eastern United States.
Toxic Soup by D.H.Elzer and Sofia Porter is published as an e-book by the Watershed Intelligence Network as part of its Toolkit Series.
www.WatershedIntelligenceNetwork.com
Toxic Soup
By D.H.Elzer and Sofia Porter
Watershed Intelligence Network -Toolkit Series
WINTKToxicSoup1
Price
$11.99
There's been a slight delay with the release of this title. We're reformatting it so that it becomes easier to read as an ebook. We expect that this book will be released in March of 2013.
