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POPSLenscrafters Find out the great offer from Lenscrafters, a company that designs different types of frames and contact lenses.
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POPSConsumer Reports finds BPA in most canned foods More: …our findings are notable because they indicate the extent of potential exposure: Consumers eating just one serving of the canned vegetable soup we tested would get about double what the FDA now considers typical average dietary daily exposure… A 165-pound adult eating one serving of canned green beans from our sample, which averaged 123.5 ppb, could ingest about 0.2 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight per day, about 80 times higher than our experts' recommended daily upper limit. And children eating multiple servings per day of canned foods with BPA levels comparable to the ones we found in some tested products could get a dose of BPA approaching levels that have caused adverse effects in several animal studies… Drinking three servings per day of canned apple juice with BPA levels comparable to the levels found in our samples could result in a dose of BPA that is more than our experts' daily upper limit.
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POPSTires Recycled into Mulch with Rubberecycle "Cash for Clunkers" helped the environment by getting older cars off the road. It also created a surplus of tires that could end up in landfills. Rubberecycle hopes to recycle those tires and turn them into mulch products that can be used for playgrounds and landscaping.
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POPSScary Skies!, Union and Consumer Group Criticize Airline Maintenance Outsourcing
The mechanics union says major U.S. domestic carriers dramatically increased outsourcing in recent years, and now spend nearly two-thirds of their maintenance dollars on contract repair stations here and abroad, including facilities in operations in China, El Salvador, Mexico, and the Philippines. Foreign repair stations are not required to have the same number of FAA-certificated mechanics, or the same security rules, as airline-owned repair facilities in the U.S., the union noted. While U.S. air carriers have outsourced maintenance for years to both domestic and foreign repair facilities where repairs are cheaper, the practice has grown in recent years. From 1996 to 2006, air carriers continued to increase the percentage of maintenance dollars spend on outsourced maintenance---from 37 percent to 64 percent. In 2006, $3.7 billion of the $5.7 billion spent on maintenance was outsourced, said the DOT IG. Of the heavy maintenance outsourced by nine U.S. airlines in 2006 . . .
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POPSthe giant hole What this argument leaves out is Fannie and Freddie. The evil and greedy bankers (curiously intent on making loans that could not be repaid) were able to sell these loans to Fannie and Freddie. If there had not been these quasi-governmental corporations backing them they would not have been making loans and they would never have been capitalized. It may be true that there was a "giant hole" in the safety net, but the truck that drove through it was financed by the government's own creatures.
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POPSComplaints Do you know that Complaints search engine provides search of business complaints for any specific company, service or product?
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POPSNon-GMO Shopping Guide - free download The guide is a joint project brought to you by the Institute for Responsible Technology and the Center for Food Safety. Watch for additional products and new product categories!
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POPSEPA Fails to Inform Public About Weed-Killer in Drinking Water Ah hell, let’s add the EPA to the list of evil corporations as well. Atrazine has become an issue of concern for environmentalists and consumer groups as the use of the herbicide has soared in the United States over the past few decades. "It is the responsibility of the EPA and Syngenta to inform the public of accurate levels of atrazine in their drinking water," said Jason Rohr, a specialist in ecotoxicology at the University of South Florida who studies the effects of atrazine in animals, and who served on the EPA's atrazine panel this past spring. No wonder Americans are getting fed up with what our government is doing and not doing. They are allowing corporations to poison us by allowing them to escape responsibility, they are allowing the EPA to not warn us of chemical poisoning. What is next? A healthcare system designed to cover up the causes of illnesses created by these ‘evil corporations’?
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POPSSeller, beware: Feds cracking down on garage sales Now we are using tax $$ to pay for yard sale cops? Why the hell is gov't stepping into this. This should be something buyers need to be smart enough to figure out for themselves. The information is out there. First they go after bakesales at the state level and now garage sales. UFB!
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POPSGriffin International Recalls Wii Charge Stations Certain Wii Charge Stations produced by Griffin International have had to be recalled. The company is offering free replacements. For more information on which products are recalled and how to get your replacement, visit this link.
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