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Moderna recalls 765.000 Doses from Europe due to Contamination
Moderna Inc is recalling 764,900 doses of its COVID-19 Spikevax vaccine after a vial, made by its contract manufacturer Rovi, was found contaminated by an unspecified foreign body.
The recalled doses had been delivered to 5 European countries: Norway, Sweden, Spain, Portugal and Poland, in January, he said.
“Hence, people who have received Moderna jabs or are waiting for booster jabs do not...
Japan suspends Moderna Covid vaccine after another million doses found contaminated, bringing total to 2.6 million
Japanese officials have suspended the use of millions of doses of the Moderna Covid vaccine after foreign substances were found in a number of batches and two people died after receiving jabs from the affected lots.
The Japanese government discovered the contamination over the weekend in a batch of the Moderna Covid vaccine in Gunma prefecture, close to Tokyo, forcing officials to temporarily suspend...
Report Reveals Alarming Presence of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in US Tap Water
A recent report published by the US Geological Survey has revealed concerning findings about the quality of US tap water. According to the study, nearly 45% of all tested tap water samples in the country contain at least one type of toxic endocrine-disrupting chemical known as polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). These chemicals, often referred to as “forever chemicals” due to their...
'Eco-Friendly' Recycled Plastic Bottles Much More Toxic to Humans Than Normal Bottles
Recycled plastic bottles release toxic chemicals into the water and juice so harmful that they cause cancer, infertility and other severe problems. Normal plastic bottles are harmful as they are but these recycled ones are way worse!
Nobody opposes recycling of plastic bottles but if studies confirm that they are harmful and toxic to human health then just simply continue to cast new bottles for human...
Contaminated Pfizer Vaccines Reported In Several Japanese Cities
Several cities in Japan have reported ‘white-colored floating substances’ in Vials of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to Bloomberg.
The vials came from lot FF5357, where white contaminants were first reported by Kamakura City in Kanagawa prefecture. On Tuesday, two more cities – neighboring Sagamihara and Sakai City in Osaka prefecture reported contaminated vials, however there were no...
Japan Halts Moderna Vaccinations after MAGNETIC Black Substances found in Vials
Okinawa prefecture has halted Moderna vaccinations after unknown metalic materials which react to magnets (possibly Graphite oxide) were found in a vial of the drug. The move comes after Japan pulled 1.6 million Moderna doses from a different batch over contamination concerns.
Black substances were discovered in syringes and a vial, while unidentified pink substances were spotted in a different syringe...
UK Supermarkets Chickens Contaminated with Deadly Bacteria
New report says most supermarket chickens contaminated with lethal poisoning bug.
Public concerns are rising in UK as the latest results of food safety tests by the Food Standards Agency show that three-quarters of fresh chickens on sales in supermarkets and butchers are contaminated with potentially lethal food poisoning, campylobacter.
According to the agency, the worst contamination rates were found...
California aquifers contaminated with billions of gallons of fracking wastewater
Industry illegally injected about 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into central California drinking-water and farm-irrigation aquifers, the state found after the US Environmental Protection Agency ordered a review of possible contamination.
According to documents obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity, the California State Water Resources Board found that at least nine of the 11...
Monsanto GMO wheat contamination discovered in Montana
Monsanto’s experimental genetically modified wheat has been discovered growing in the second US field in Montana, about a year after the discovery of the company’s unapproved crop growing in Oregon disrupted US wheat exports.
The plants were discovered at a test site at Montana State University, where back in 2000-2003 Monsanto was conducting field trials of its wheat, genetically modified...
TEPCO failed to disclose crops over 20KM from Fukushima were contaminated
Fourteen different rice paddies outside of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant evacuation zone were contaminated with radioactive material in August 2013, Japan’s agriculture ministry has found.
Despite the findings – which blamed the removal of a large piece of debris from the Fukushima No. 3 reactor building for the contamination, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is moving ahead with plans...
US State of Michigan protests Canadian nuclear waste project
Bruce Nuclear Plant on Lake Huron
A Canadian proposal that calls for a nuclear waste storage facility less than a mile away from the Great Lakes is coming under heavy fire from Michigan lawmakers and environmental groups, who are now attempting to stop the project.
Under a plan crafted by energy supplier Ontario Power Generation (OPG), the company would construct a “deep geologic repository” (DGR),...
NASA Curiosity contaminates Mars with hundreds of Earth bacteria
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity
The NASA Curiosity rover that was thought to bring only cameras, sensors, and scientific equipment when it traveled to Mars in August 2012 may have brought along dozens of species of bacteria that originated on Earth, according to a new study.
A study conducted by the American Society for Microbiology and published in the Nature science journal revealed that 377 strains...
Unapproved GM rice found in US exports to over 30 countries
A new report has revealed that the rice supply in at least 30 countries may have already been contaminated with genetically modified strains from US exports, thereby threatening worldwide contamination.
A new report by the GM Contamination Register has disclosed US Department of Agriculture findings from 2006 and 2007, which show that the department detected traces of unapproved GM rice in over 30...
Monsanto: Contamination by all means necessary
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state’s food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price. Take the current predicament of wheat contamination in the US.
Genetically engineered (GE) wheat is not approved to be grown for commercial use in the US or anywhere else in the world. Yet the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced...
Swiss food giant Nestle hit by horsemeat scandal
Horsemeat products at a horse butcheray in Dortmund.
The Swiss-based food giant Nestle has been hit by a widespread horsemeat contamination scandal, forcing it to remove products from European stores.
“Our tests have found traces of horse DNA in two products,” Nestle said in a statement on Monday, adding, “The mislabeling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards...