Canada and the Netherlands suspend sales of breast implants linked to cancer risk. Growing impact from #ImplantFiles as the ban announced by France this week sets off a chain reaction in regulators across continents icij.org/investigations…
Here are more details on Canada's decision, via @thecribby@jesse_mclean. Health Canada gives Allergan 15 days to provide more evidence, after which it will remove Biocell implants from the market unless it is satisfied thestar.com/news/investiga…
We've made a correction to this story, now reflected in the text: the Dutch did not officially suspend sales of macrotextured & polyurethane implants, the Dutch Plastic Surgery Association voluntarily suspended them at the request of the Dutch health minister
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The company is funding research on “food shaming,” using anti-diet arguments to fight federal regulation, and showering giveaways on influencers who tout its cereals with the slogan #DerailtheShame washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/…
The anti-diet movement began as an effort to combat weight bias and disordered eating.
But now, most dietitian influencers who use anti-diet language on social media are also paid to promote products by the food industry, our analysis found
NEW: The multi-billion dollar food industry is shaping the eating habits of a new generation by paying dietitians to push products and messages on social media.
But industry has paid dietitian influencers for posts encouraging viewers to eat more sugar & candy, or use unproven supplements - messages that run counter to decades of scientific evidence washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…
Other sponsored posts dismissed warnings from health authorities like the WHO.
In a campaign by a soda industry trade group, dietitians said WHO findings on aspartame - including that it is “possibly carcinogenic” - were “fear mongering” and “clickbait”
More than 100 world leaders are pledging at #COP26 to end deforestation by 2030.
It’s a bold promise, but one that so far doesn’t address a crucial element of the threat to forests exposed in our @OCCRP investigation yesterday: state corruption (thread) occrp.org/en/investigati…
First, the good news: leaders of countries representing 85% of forests are promising action, backed by more than $19 billion in funding
That includes Brazil, Indonesia and the DRC, which are home to most of the world’s rainforests bbc.com/news/science-e…
The bad news is that we’ve seen this movie before – and a similar agreement in 2014 turned out to be nothing but hot air.
NEW: Nicaragua is losing its forests faster than any other country in the world – an ecological disaster fueled by corruption in its forestry agency & enabled by the ruling Ortega family
If you've read about Nicaragua this year, it's probably about how dictator Daniel Ortega is violently crushing opposition ahead of this week's election.
More fallout from #ParadisePapers: a 150+ page report from the Commerce Dept inspector general reveals it investigated Wilbur Ross for years after the project's revelations in Nov 2017.
It found that he breached federal ethics rules in several ways...
The findings include glaring omissions in his financial disclosures.
Our story below for @ICIJorg found that Ross retained a stake in Navigator Holdings, a shipping company that did business w Putin cronies, through a chain of offshore entities.
The inspector general found that Ross also held more than 16,000 direct shares in Navigator that he completely omitted from his financial disclosures when he took office.
In Peru, the US gold dealer Kaloti Metals & Logistics bought tons of gold from Peruvian companies investigated for money laundering & illegal mining, setting off alarms in 3 big banks