Lost In Space: Bone Density & Muscle Mass

After 277 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and with 10 spacewalks to his credit and more than 67 hours of total spacewalking time, astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, commander of Expedition 14 to the ISS, set 2 NASA records.

Now he and fellow astronaut Mikhail Tyurin, who was the Flight Engineer, are recovering from their adventure. They returned back to earth around April 21st and are still regaining their lost muscle mass and bone density, as they adjust to Earth's gravity. These tissue losses happen in spite of rigorous daily exercise while on board the ISS. The losses are normal in long duration stays away from earth's gravity field. Commander Lopez-Alegria said he thought that "it takes about a week or two to get back to 80 or 90 percent, and I think it's going to take a lot longer to get that last 10 percent back. But so far, so good." He should know - this is his fourth stay in space. Younger people recover faster, according to previous NASA research.

According to NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research even with rigorous workouts, astronauts return to Earth much much weaker than when they left. After just 11 days in microgravity muscle fibers can shrink up to 30 percent and cause soreness as damaged muscles tear while readjusting to Earth's gravity.

Space medicine researchers and radiologists and other medical researchers and biologists have studied tissue loss due to lack of sufficient gravity at
Texas A & M University as well as this 2004 article (which I just found hours after I came up with this article's title. :) in Radiology Today both if which look at bone density losses.

Devices have been used to study bone density changes for about a decade.

BIOPEER!

Biopeer calls it's a blog for the global life science research community where peers can discuss new biological developments.

I grabbed a widget from their site so you can see the cool new research being done. A fair bit of medical stuff - no big surprise there. New treatments being explored for TB and MS. Very cool!

Anti-freeze & Lead in Medicine, Plastic in the Pork Chops

A 7 page special from the New York Times on how diethylene glycol - aka antifreeze, is being substituted for glycerin in medicines and some food products.

This article mentions that vitamins from are adulterated with lead.

And where are these from? The same place as the melamine, cyanuric acid, (a pool stabilizer) and aminopterin laced pet foods and animal feed mixtures: China. Yes, China, supporter of Sudan, stealer of Tibet, harvester of shark fins from live sharks, and organs from live political prisoners and the religious - I'm with this Stoney Creek man who's decided to boycott Chinese goods; given all the toxins that are being purposely added to Chinese exports to make a profit, it's a sensible thing to do for one's own safety.

Here are some sites with information on why and how to boycott Chinese made goods and products.

"Buying the Dragon's Teeth" was published in 2004. It outlines the reasons to boycott.

U.S. State Department info on Organ Harvesting in China

Epoch Times list of all their reports on Trade in Organ Removal from Live Humans.

Boycott 'Made in China'

Don't Feed the Dragon Campaign

Melamine Used As Cake Additive: Chinese Chem. Plant Manager

"Our chemical products are mostly used for additives, not for animal feed," said Li Xiuping, a manager at Henan Xinxiang Huaxing Chemical in Henan Province. "Melamine is mainly used in the chemical industry, but it can also be used in making cakes."

There you have it folks - from the International Herald Tribune. It's at the very bottom of the article. And the Washington Post has the revelation that before melamine there was urea being added, for the same reason - inflated and bogus protein content.

Melamine scrap is used in North America as an abrasive blast medium. Sonapa sells recycled plastics, including melamine scrap with formaldehyde. Here is there ad for "Type III – Thermoset Melamine Formaldehyde: Melamine is engineered for stripping the most difficult surfaces while providing an effective stripping rate. Melamine is the most aggressive plastic abrasive, offering an excellent range of stripping capabilities. Melamine can be used as a replacement for glass beads and other harsh abrasives."

In China, melamine scrap is mixed into soymeal, and sold to feedlots and farmers. A manager with Tai'an Yongfeng Feedmill Co. Ltd in the coastal province of Shandong says that "The chemical plant next to us used the melamine scrap as waste for landfill and built houses on it. Then they tore down the buildings to get the scrap once the price rose. It is a very popular business here. I know people have been mixing this since 1991."

One article I read spoke of an online market, Alibaba.com, where companies sell and buy chemicals and which is very big in China.

Latrines & Farmed Fish

The picture above is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and shows a latrine situated over a fish pond, in China. The addition of manure and other waste materials like sewage, is a common practice in aquaculture - see Auburn University's online site about it with pictures.

The FAO recommends in this instructional guide to would-be freshwater fish farmers recommends that latrines be located at last 10 feet from fish ponds to avoid the fish being unsafe to eat.

the Chinese and Vietnamese are using latrine ponds full of human and other wastes to raise fish which they sell to North American and other markets for export.

Aplastic-anemia.org has this information about imported fish: "According to the Catfish Institute, most of the catfish from Vietnam are raised in floating cages in the Mekong River or in "latrine ponds" in provinces along the river. Slow moving currents during the dry season adversely affect cage-raised fish and the Mekong River is subject to pesticide contamination... "Latrine ponds are depressions that employ the Chinese system of channeling human and other waste into ponds used to raise fish."

China Adding Toxins On Purpose; Motive May Be Sinister

Melamine is a plastic. Aminopterin is a toxic folic acid analogue and a rat poison (banned, at least in North America). Cyanuric acid is a pool chemical.

None of them should be on anyone's menu. But now pigs, (see here also), as well as chicken and fish have been found to have been fed food containing contaminated feed grade grain products - all from China.

The FDA suspects that China is adding nitrogen-rich toxins DELIBERATELY to grain products to jack apparent protein contents and they have found there way into our food supplies. And not just our pets' food.

Peachy.

Scientists have found that combining melamine and cyanuric acid produces crystals like those found in the pets who died after eating the contaminated food. Here is another report about the chemical reaction.

"Our food-safety system is broken," Rosa L. DeLauro, Chair of the US House Subcommittee that funds the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture, told UP reporters in this Science Daily article on the tainted farmed fish.

She's hardly understating the problem.

Meanwhile over on the Huffington Post, David Goldstein says he's having a crisis of faith in the US FDA, which he terms the faith-based Dining system. Some interesting quotes on that site.

The plot is very thick at this point - the motive - sell inferior goods for a fattened profit margin to the gaijin: The International Herald Tribune is reporting that Chinese chemical producers say it's common knowledge that ... for years feed producers in China have quietly and secretly used cyanuric acid to cheat buyers of animal feed. Two of the chemical makers said that Chinese feed producers used cyanuric acid because it is even cheaper than melamine and is also high in nitrogen, enabling feed producers to artificially lift the protein reading of the feed.

Over a month ago when the pet food scandal first came to light, I held back from reporting what my gut and intuition knew to be true - that the toxins had been added on purpose. "Why would someone do that?" I wondered to myself. Also I had no hard evidence at that time - just a sneaking suspicion that since feed grains are eaten by more than just pets, the initial scandal was just the tip of the iceberg. I really truly wish I had been wrong. But no - the scandal keeps getting bigger and the plot has thickened and stinks considerably more than when I predicted it would get messy and ugly. It's not just wheat gluten, it's rice and corn and who knows what else in the Chinese grain department.

What are we feeding our animals? What are we feeding ourselves? Should we be trading with regimes that are unprincipalled enough to sell us garbage?

And why is ANYONE in North America buying wheat form the Chinese who have enough trouble feeding themselves, when Canada, the United States, Russia and Ukrainian are the largest wheat producers in the world??

Is it just all about money? Maybe not! There may be VERY SINISTER REASON the Chinese governemnt is allowing this if the expatriate Chinese journalists over at Epoch Times are correct. China has imprisoned several of the news outlet's reporters.

According to two speeches by CCP's former Defense Minister, Chi Haotian and published by the Epoch Times, China's government plans to exterminate US citizens. Here is the other article "The War Is Approaching Us". Chi was responsible for and in operational command during the Tianammen Square massacres in the 1990's. The Epoch Times is run by people who do a lot of investigative work in China. I hope they are wrong but my gut says this article is true. The country is strapped for space, they have annexed Tibet. They would stand to gain a lot of land and resources if they could take over North America. The Chinese government is not without a plausible motive to follow through on Chi's Mein Kampf-esque ideas.

PVC; Small Portable Homes

Two short items of possible interest.

As I was deep in writing and research mode for the show unearthing stuff about two chemicals that have made the news (because of environmental contamination, as well as occupational safety (at least in one case)), I tripped over thee following information about another chemical you may have heard of: PVC.

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) expose over at the Houston Chronicle. Not sure what sort of cleanup has happened in the intervening almost decade. Wikipedia has some referenced information on the compound and its uses.

In completely unrelated news, I stumbled upon this today: a portable dwelling that claims to be part Yurt, part Dome, the "Yome".
Then again, there is the more traditional looking tiny home from, natch, Tumbleweed Tiny Homes.

Put Pork (& Tainted Pet Food?) On Your Fork

The chemically tainted pet food has almost certainly found its way into the human food chain.

And you read it here first, back in March, when almost everyone was minimizing the danger to the human food supply from the tainted gluten. Back when the poison that was killing pets in contaminated pet food was first revealed to be tainted Chinese wheat gluten, this is in fact what I reported and predicted on the show and this blog, as an area of serious concern, and I said I'd keep everyone posted.

Something else: was the toxin added on purpose? I theorized exactly this back in March on the show, though I had no idea what the motive was, but I cut that part, because I wondered if maybe the Chinese government might get it's knickers in a twist and sue the station. We're a community and campus station. We're not made out of money. My suspicions hit the cutting room floor.

And here is the piece I wrote when it was found it wasn't just wheat gluten that was contaminated.

So now there are there are FDA raids and other, er, interesting things happening:

• South Africa has banned Chinese gluten products, in this case the culprit was corn gluten.
  
• China is blocking US investigations by the FDA's food inspectors.
  
• the US FDA has opened a criminal investigation into the tainted food scandal.
  
• Wikipedia has a timeline of the pet food crisis.
  

And melamine and cyanuric acid has been found in the diets of pigs from Kansas and Utah slaughterhouses that ate tainted 'salvage' pet food. These pigs may have entered the food supply. The US has quarantined hogs found to have been fed 'salvaged' contaminated pet food. The quarantined hogs are in California, New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Utah, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ohio.

Meanwhile, the FDA is refusing to do a pork recall, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Now the big question is: did the toxin-laced pet food find it's way into the diet of any other animals destined for human consumption? Absolutely, is my prediction. Again - I'll keep you posted! I could be wrong. I hope I am! First we have to see if anyone will even test for it. I expect there will be tests by some companies.

But before the vegetarians get too shirty with the omnivores, I urge them, again, take a good look at what you who eschew meat are eating - seitan is made of wheat gluten. Is that gluten tested for safety? Did it come from China? Write and ask the companies that are making your food! Why?

Because other than seitan, many meat substitutes are laced with gluten, as a rule. Some of these may also have have been dosed with melamine to boost apparent protein content. Why would gluten sellers only lace part of the gluten when they could make lots more moolah sell faked-high protein gluten to human food suppliers, too?

Here is an excerpt of some information about the compound at Wikipedia:

On April 19 researchers announced that a "spoke-like crystal" had been found in contaminated rice protein concentrate and the tissues and urine of affected animals. The crystal serves as a biomarker for contamination and is roughly 30% melamine. The remainder has been identified as cyanuric acid, amilorine and amiloride by researchers at the University of Guelph, in Ontario and Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine. The three chemicals are metabolites of melamine, which researchers hypothesized were formed as the animals metabolized the melamine. Other researchers at Michigan State University have confirmed amilorine and amiloride but not the cyanuric acid. At least one researcher believes that cyanuric acid, commonly used in pool chlorination, is the most likely chemical in the contaminated products causing renal failure in the affected animals, although tests in dogs and rats have shown that cyanuric acid is safe.[1] Richard Goldstein of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine hypothesized that the crystallization of melamine and cyanuric acid might cause cyanuric acid to remain in the kidneys for longer periods of time than when cyanuric acid in pool water is accidentally swallowed by people, explaining its apparent increased toxicity in this case. While it remains possible that cyanuric acid was added as a separate contaminant, Goldstein said that it was likely that it was the result of bacterial metabolism of melamine.[2] Cyanuric acid is a known intermediate byproduct of bacterial metabolism of melamine.[3]

"Strawberry Daiquiri, Doc!"

Does soaking fruit in booze *really* make it healthier?

Whereas over on Digg, booze drinkers, swingers, a plethora of bachelors and bachelorettes and other wishful thinkers are already laying into the strawberry daiquiris, to celebrate the research news that adding berries to alcohol can boost the amount of phytochemicals available for your body to use, the BBC reports that other scientists (nutritionists and dieticians) say that the effect of the alcohol (for example on your liver!) may cancel out any health gains from the liberated antioxidants. Here's what alcohol does, in excess, to your liver! And there is more info here.

By the "drink your face off! it's healthy!" line of reasoning (read wishful thinking!) you could just as well make strawberry rum trifle and call it a health food ;-). I will admit I quite like that line of thought but it sure isn't rational! That's the path that leads thinking thatdoughnuts and beer will make you live longer! So *very* not. Not even if they are gluten-free! But then there is Matt's Super Genius Vodka Infusion, featuring not just strawberries but also pineapple and watermelon. And watermelon is oozing with lycopene.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

U of Misssissippi Study: Not Your Daddy's Joint

"[the University of Mississippi report on Marijuana Potency] underscores that we are no longer talking about the drug of the 1960s and 1970s -- this is Pot 2.0,"
John Walters, Director of USA's National Drug Control Policy.

Tetra-hydro-cannabinol, or THC, is the active component in cannabis sativa (otherwise known as marijuana). Which means it's the thing in pot which makes people intoxicated.

Reuters, reports that the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) released a report on the potency of the plant. Cannibis sativa is the centre for a huge and illegal (in North America, at least) business in illicit drugs. The main finding of the report? Modern marijuana has a bit more than double the THC percentage it did in the late 1980's. This is based on samples of cannabis, and hashish, that have been analyzed over the decades by the Pharmacy Department at the University of Mississippi's Marijuana Potency Project. Their data shows that average levels of THC rose from 7 percent in 2003 to 8.5 percent in 2006, rising steadily from average THC levels of 3.5 percent, back in 1988. They studied 59,369 samples of cannabis, 1,225 of hashish and 443 of hash oil which police have confiscated since 1975. According to their report, "the highest concentration of (THC) found in a cannabis (marijuana) sample is 33.12 percent from Oregon State Police."

There is a short piece on the U of Mississippi report on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Here is the university's press release on Dan Rather's report on medical marijuana, which featured the pharmacy department's marijuana researchers.

Was Toxin Added on Purpose? Pet Food Recall Widens.

Another contaminated grain product used in pet food (and possibly other animal feed), has been discovered. This time it's rice protein concentrate. And it's contaminated, again with melamine.

Because of this the pet food recall has widened to include some brands that contain the tainted rice protein concentrate. This is because melamine has been found not just in imported wheat gluten but also rice protein concentrate; both contaminated grain products are from China, according to the Houston Chronicle's online news outlet, chron.com. The Chronicle also says there are South African press reports indicating that corn gluten, contaminated with melamine, has been found in that country's pet food.

Wilbur Ellis Co., which imported the tainted rice product, found the contaminant in rice protein from one supplier, Reuter's reports. They are voluntarily recalling all of the rice protein concentrate its feed division sold to pet food manufacturers.

The FDA is mulling over if the contamination might not have been deliberate. They say that adding melamine can boost the apparent protein content of the grain products.

Pesticides, Pollutants, Linked to Diabetes & Insulin Resistance

Pathophysiology researchers at the Universities of Kyungpook (in Korea) and at U of Minnesota have just published "Association Between Serum Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Insulin Resistance Among Nondiabetic Adults". The study shows links between blood serum levels of certain pollutants (like organophosphorous pesticides and PCB's) and onset of type 2 diabetes. Previously, the researchers had shown a link between this and diabetes itself.

Persistent Organic Pollutants are also known as POPs, for short. POPs are pollutants tend to bind to fat. Because of this they tend to accumulate in fatty tissue in animals especially. Then if another animal eats them, they concentrate up the food chain. This is kniown as bioaccumulation, and bioconcentration.

As Edie's Sam Bond points out it's,possible that being obese simply means more of the chemicals are likely to accumulate in the system. More fatty tissue means more sites for the pollutants to bind to. As he says, this is what is seen in the wild with top-chain predators like polar bears, for example, that have a lot of fatty tissue.

It's not just pesticides and PCB's that do this. Some metals do as well, for example methylmercury, which is lipid (fat) soluble.

The United Nations Environmental Program or UNEP, has more information on POPs here. There is an international agreement on POPs, known as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Canada was the first country to ratify the Stockholm Convention. More information on Canada's strategy for dealing with these chemicals is here.

Contaminated Chinese (Wheat Gluten) Blues

This article will 'dish' a bit on the 'joys' of globalization and on differing safety standards for food and feed products, and environmental standards. And by dish, I mean melamine. Eh? I hear you say. Keep reading!

Earlier this year I reported that the tainting of pet food with contaminated Chinese wheat gluten might be only the tip of a larger iceberg (albeit an iceberg made of contaminated Chinese gluten). That's because wheat gluten is used in a lot of things people and their pets eat. Now various news outlets have reported that the pet food recall has been expanded to include Hill's Prescription Diet DRY m/d pet food, which is manufactured by Menu Foods, as well a brand of dog biscuits as by an Alabama company.

The culprit this time? Contaminated Chinese gluten, once again.

This time the 'magic ingredient' is not aminopterin. This time it's melamine. Yes, that would be... plastic. Melamine is used in North America and in Europe to make plastic dishes and plates. And what do the Chinese use it in? Fertilizer. How terribly scientific of them! Just what plants need, a good dose of plastic. Right, suuuuuuuuure it is.

China Environmental Blog reports from an article in the Washington Post that
"Chinese environmental officers say they are proud of their progress and that Beijing should be judged not by international standards but by how much it has improved."

"People who come here for the first time feel that the environment and the air is not good," said Yu Xiaoxuan, deputy director for construction and environment for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games. "But they do not know how bad the pollution was several years ago." Longtime Beijing residents say the change is striking. Bo Guoping, 60, a retired factory worker who on a recent weekend was flying a kite in one of the city's new parks with her grandson, remarked: "These days, we can see the sky. Before, it was all gray."" from China Environmental News Blog.

But before we leap to any conclusions, let's consider the situation in some villages in China near the Siberian border. Here is an excerpt from an excellent piece by the CS Monitor on how Chinese villagers are being poisoned by industry and are battling to clean up their environment so they survive and don't die early or have children suffering form severe fluoride poisoning because of disreputable industrial practices and terrible government environmental standards.

Here's part of it. I hope you have a strong stomach.

"...small towns like Leifeng and Puxing, which are just a few hundred miles away from those cities, have languished. Good intentions from the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) can't solve every problem, and local officials often have little incentive to do the right thing.

The job of fighting for victims of environmental disasters is thus being taken up by growing ranks of activists and lawyers. SEPA did not respond to phone calls or written questions about the pollution in Leifeng and Puxing. "The problem is that despite all the positive rhetoric emanating from Beijing, very little has found its way down to the local level," says Elizabeth Economy, senior Asia researcher with the Council on Foreign Relations and author of "The River Runs Black," on China's environmental crisis.

"The grass-roots ... movement is where the energy is coming from in China," she adds. The plight of Leifeng and Puxing, long ignored by government and media, has become a perfect example of this larger movement. Under the direction of a legal center in Beijing as well as a local law clerk, Leifeng and Puxing villages are fighting for their day in court.

Villagers' concerns began in 2001, when hundreds of pigs and chickens mysteriously died. After Chinese New Year 2002, scores of people were stricken with illnesses ranging from debilitating headaches and severe stomach problems to heart palpitations. After wearing freshly washed clothes, many developed strange rashes. Those who worked at the factory started to talk about what went on inside and fingered the likely culprit: toxic waste.

"At first we didn't believe it," recalls Cao Qingren, a local law clerk who is fighting for the villages. "Then we realized the water must be bad.""

Just peachy.

Well then... Has it changed your mind, gentle reader? Thought not. Talk about use at your own risk! This reporter will be going out of her way to avoid purchasing ANYTHING with gluten in it and anything from China that can be ingested, given their laws on aminopterin and melamine use. Who knows what will be found next in Chinese food products. Plutonium? Arsenic? Well I certainly hope not but who knows? There doesn't seem to be a lot of oversight at this point.

Besides, think of all the energy that will be saved and greenhouse gases avoided not burning fuel to lug contaminated trade goods across the Pacific from China to North America.

Tea vs. Cortisol, Tarantula Travel + Nano WC's

This week's show features remastered rebroadcasts of 3 of the last year's reports:

You can click the link at the side to listen live! ----------}

Some species of spider have been found to have silk spinning organs not just in the regular place - on their bellies, but also on their feet. Researchers say this may change what is known about spider evolution. Plus, a British study into the relaxing effects of black tea and how it reduces and ameliorates levels and effects of the stress hormone cortisol. And a bathroom that cleans itself is now possible thanks to Aussie experimenets with nano-particulate coatings for surfaces, that are self-cleaning and that kill e.coli. Good news for hospitals and other places.

Poisoned Pet Food Gluten May Be In Other Foods

In the last show, we looked at a study by medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania that found that meditation can help patients suffering from congestive heart failure. We also looked at an upcoming talk entitled 'Green revolution - Whose revolution? which is happening at Ottawa's Congress Centre on March 26th, starting at 7 pm and features African and Canadian plant biologists, farmers and members of NGO's from both countries and looks at who the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations investments in African agriculture will actually benefit.

We also looked at the Menu Foods mass poisoned pet food recall, at what foods were recalled, plus little on symptoms of kidney failure and the reason why kidney failure produces such symptoms and what people should do if pets showed these symptoms. At the time the show was written - Monday - the US's FDA was saying the most likely culprit was tainted wheat gluten. What it was contaminated with was still in question at the time of the broadcast.

Now investigators have figured out the gluten appears to have been contaminated with a type of rat poison that was somehow in the wheat gluten used in the pet food. The tainted gluten was from a new supplier.

For some reason government and Menu Foods are not releasing the name of the wheat gluten supplier. This is not a good thing. Why? Because gluten is used as a thickener in many foods - not just for pets but for human consumption. It is a major ingredient in meat analogue products such as vegetarian bologna slices, Tofurky, and the like and is used to bind ingredients together. It is also used in pretty much all commercially prepared bread such as Dempsey's, Weston's etc.

The Recall List

Menu foods makes a huge number of private label brands and has pulled all of the brands that were in the test.

All foods recalled were sold in pouch or canned form. A number of other companies that sell canned cat foods made by Menu Foods have also initiated voluntary recalls.

If your pet is showing signs of ill health, please call your veterinarian. Renal failure does not have to mean death. Prescription pet food is available and is the standard treatment for chronic renal (kidney) failure.

Here is the list (announced on the last show) of recalled pet food:

Proctor& Gamble which sells IAMS and Eukanuba is recalling the 3 oz., 5.5 oz., 6 oz. and 13.2 oz. of canned and 3 oz. and 5.3 oz. foil pouch "wet" cat and dog food products which were made by Menu Foods Inc. Emporia, Kansas plant
with the code dates of 6339 through 7073 followed by the plant code 4197.

To read can product codes, look at the bottom of the can. The first four numbers of the second line of numbers are the date code, and the following four numbers indicate the plant code. For example, if the second line begins with four numbers from 6339 to 7073 followed by the plant code 4197, then the can should be recalled. For foil pouches, the code numbers are located at the lower left hand corner on the back of the pouch.

Nestlé Purina PetCare Company is voluntarily withdrawing its 5.3 ounce Mighty Dog® brand pouch products that were produced by Menu Foods, Inc. from December 3, 2006 through March 14, 2007.

The Mighty Dog pouch products and pouches in multi-pack cartons have code dates of 6337 through 7073, followed by the plant code 1798. This information should be checked on the bottom or back panel of the individual pouches. Specifically,
if the code following the "Use By" date begins with four numbers from 6337 to 7073 followed by the plant code 1798, then the pouch is included in this voluntary withdrawal. The list from Menu foods website is extensive. NB: These are canned and wet cat pet food. NOT DRY.

Some companies are providing purchasers of the tainted pet food with refunds. Contact the manufacturer for further details.

For full information please call menu recall information line at:
1-866-895-2708

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Best Choice
4. Companion
5. Compliments POUCHES
6. Demoulas Market Basket
7. Eukanuba
8. Fine Feline Cat
9. Food Lion
10. Foodtown
11. Giant Companion
12. Hannaford
13. Hill Country Fare
14. Hy-Vee
15. Iams
16. Laura Lynn
17. Li'l Red
18. Loving Meals
19. Meijer's Main Choice
20. Nutriplan
21. Nutro Max Gourmet Classics
22. Nutro Natural Choice
23. Paws
24. Pet Pride
25. Presidents Choice POUCHES
26. Price Chopper
27. Priority US
28. Save-A-Lot
29. Schnucks
30. Science Diet Feline Savory Cuts Cans
31. Sophistacat
32. Special Kitty Canada (POUCH)
33. Special Kitty US
34. Springfield Prize
35. Sprout
36. Stop & Shop Companion
37. Tops Companion
38. Wegmans
39. Weis Total Pet
40. Western Family US
41. White Rose
42. Winn Dixie


for DOGS:

1. Americas Choice, Preferred Pets
2. Authority
3. Award
4. Best Choice
5. Big Bet
6. Big Red
7. Bloom
8. Wegmans Bruiser
9. Cadillac
10. Companion
11. Demoulas Market Basket
12. Eukanuba
13. Food Lion
14. Giant Companion
15. Great Choice
16. Hannaford
17. Hill Country Fare
18. Hy-Vee
19. Iams
20. Laura Lynn
21. Loving Meals
22. Meijers Main Choice
23. Mighty Dog Pouch
24. Mixables
25. Nutriplan
26. Nutro Max
27. Nutro Natural Choice
28. Nutro Ultra
29. Nutro
30. Ol'Roy Canada
31. Ol'Roy US
32. Paws
33. Pet Essentials
34. Pet Pride - Good n Meaty
35. Presidents Choice
36. Price Chopper
37. Priority Canada
38. Priority US
39. Publix
40. Roche Brothers
41. Save-A-Lot
42. Schnucks
43. Shep Dog
44. Springsfield Prize
45. Sprout
46. Stater Brothers
47. Weis Total Pet
48. Western Family US
49. White Rose
50. Winn Dixie
51. Your Pet

Nanomaterials + Your DNA, etc.

(Ottawa) This week's show features a piece on the brewing 'Copyfight': the music industry vs. listeners and artists and how it may change how much you pay to hear music on your IPod or cell phone.

And research shows how one kind of tiny carbon molecules, nanoparticles known as buckminsterfullerine (a.k.a. 'buckyballs') can get stuck in your DNA and cause it to fall apart. Oh, but we wish we were kidding.

Plus, the UN is after developed nations to get on board the climate change protocol train. You think Kyoto's targets are high? Wait till you hear what the UN's climate change expert wants to set things at. Carbon credits and more.

All on this week's show, featuring music by Alberta band "Ground", track 10 from their 2003 album.

I don't know who the Carbon Credit Review thinks they are but they're ganking posts from all manner of media outlets and labelling them as "original posts by Carbon Credit Review" - >even this very post! as well as such luminaries as the Australian Broadcast Network, and God only knows what other mainstream media giants. This reporter for CKCU-FM is waitin' for da US or UK or Aussie lawsuit! They gotta rewrite that copy - I'm pretty sure it's actionable in the US anyway. They have their comments section disabled, too. Nasty!