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Month: June 2017
The FDA is a dysfunctional agency compromised by industry and should be abolished. The job of protecting the consumer is better handled by private consumer advocacy groups.
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“About 20 percent of baby food samples tested over a decade-long period had detectable levels of lead, according to a new report from Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit group.”
“The group evaluated data collected by the Food and Drug Administration from 2003 to 2013. This included 2,164 baby food samples. They found 89 percent of grape juice samples, 86 percent of sweet potatoes samples and 47 percent of teething biscuits samples contained detectable levels of lead.”
“”The levels we found were relatively low, but when you add them up — with all the foods children eat … it’s significant,” says study author Tom Neltner of the Environmental Defense Fund.”
“None of the baby food samples seemed to exceed the Food and Drug Administration’s allowable levels of lead. However, the FDA is in the process of reviewing its standards, and there’s concern that current standards do not reflect the latest science about the potential health risks, especially for young children.”
“The FDA has “old standards … and they haven’t been updated in decades,” Lowry said.”
Lead Detected In Baby Food Samples. Pediatricians Say There’s No Safe Level
Twenty percent of baby food samples were found to contain lead, according to a report from the Environmental Defense Fund. Pediatricians says there’s no safe lead level. FDA is reviewing its policy.
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“Cut your hair and get a job ..”
“Cut your hair and get a job ..”
UNLOCKED – “Cultural Appropriation”
Hugo The Poet
Hugo The Poet
“UNLOCKED” – shaving my head after 18 years of “cultural appropriation”
Witness the mutation from egregious hippie to heinous Alt-Right looking doofus in the space of about 4 minutes.
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Yes, good folk, after a good 18 years of hair raising, the time came to chop my “culturally inappropriate” locks off. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter, delivered as it happened.
Haircut by Beee Mallia
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Grenfell Tower in London survived .. Did not collapse ..
They should have built the Twin Towers out of whatever materials they used in Grenfell Tower ..
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My rescued kittens are doing better
My rescued kittens are doing better ..
A Pawsitive Approach
These two! Total cuteness! 😊🐱❤️🐱
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“Justin From Canada”
Obamacare fails in Iowa .. Iowa submits request for approval of a stopgap measure .. Dum dums will never learn and are already looking for the next scapegoat despite the “death spiral” being evident as early as 2014 .. Obamacare can’t deliver what it promised ..
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“Although the ACA’s Medicaid expansion program resulted in additional coverage for nearly 150,000 Iowans, the individual commercial market has not been successful. Because insurers had limited claims data on the uninsured population, many insurers initially underestimated premiums. After 2014, it became apparent that many of the newly insured individuals in Iowa’s individual ACA-compliant market were much sicker and older than previously estimated. This caused significant losses in ACA-compliant markets around the country eventually forcing premiums to skyrocket. Iowa’s individual ACA-compliant premiums have increased between seventy (70) and one-hundred (100) percent over the first three (3) years of the ACA. Consequently, this has resulted in declining enrollment of healthy individuals along with poor uptake by the younger population.”
“The instability of Iowa’s individual ACA-compliant market was first marked with the liquidation of CoOportunity Health, Inc., which began with an order of rehabilitation on December 23, 2014. Iowa’s individual ACA-compliant market has seen continued instability since that time. On April 25, 2016, UnitedHealthcare notified the Iowa Insurance Division that they would not offer individual ACA-compliant plans in 2017.”
“Then, on March 30, 2017, Wellmark, Inc. and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc. (“Wellmark”) notified the Iowa Insurance Division that they would not offer individual ACA-compliant plans in 2018.5 Finally, on April 6, 2017, Aetna, Inc. notified the Iowa Insurance Division that it would not offer individual ACA-compliant plans in 2018. There are two health insurance carriers (Medica and Gundersen Health Plan, Inc.) currently offering plans in 2017 on Iowa’s ACA-compliant market that have not yet announced their plans for 2018. Given the larger collapse, it is unlikely these carriers will remain meaning there will be ZERO carriers in Iowa’s ACA-compliant individual health care market in 2018, at least in almost all of Iowa’s ninety-nine (99) counties.”
“CoOportunity, UnitedHealthcare, Wellmark, and Aetna have all reported very substantial losses in this market. The indecisiveness in the legislative process at the federal level has further debilitated the Iowa individual health insurance market. This uncertainty also prevented Iowa state legislators from enacting legislation during its session that might have supplemented any solutions from the federal level on this issue.”
“While legislation appears to slowly be moving at the federal level, it is unlikely any changes to the ACA will be enacted in time to keep Iowa’s individual health insurance market from a total collapse leaving nearly 72,000 individuals with zero options to purchase health insurance for 2018. The program described herein would become effective immediately upon CMS approval to allow insurance carriers to decide whether they want to offer the Iowa PSM Plan for the 2018 calendar year and for all parties to begin implementation. Iowa requests that this proposal be granted as soon as possible and be effective for an initial period of one year. Iowa requests authority to have the option to renew the program for 2019 if necessary.”
Iowa Asks U.S. for Obamacare Help Facing ‘Collapse’ of Market
Facing what it called a “collapse” of its Obamacare market next year, Iowa is asking the Trump administration to let it reallocate millions of dollars and create a stopgap program that would provide health insurance options for 72,000 Iowans covered by the Affordable Care Act.
SDF rooftop battle against ISIS in eastern Raqqa ..
جانب من الاشتباكات في حي الصناعة
Microsoft hasn’t had volume this low since 1986 when they first went public ..
I’m not trying to pick on Microsoft because this low volume phenomenon isn’t just affecting them, but nearly all companies. The argument goes if the share price of Microsoft is such a great deal then more people, not less, should be buying over time ..
One of the ways a retail store deals with low volume or low transactions is that they launch a 30-50% off sale, lowering the price to boost demand, increasing volume or transactions ..