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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedFDA Data Undercut Public Safety Assurances by Top Agency Official; Tests Found High Benzene Contamination of Diet Soda; 79 Percent of Samples Above Drinking Water Limit.
AScribe Health News Service, April, 2006
Byline: Environmental Working Group
WASHINGTON, April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- A computer investigation by Environmental Working Group (EWG) has uncovered results from a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing program that contradict blanket safety assurances about benzene contamination in soft drinks made by a top agency official last week. FDAas data show that 79 percent of diet soda samples tested over a six-year period from 1995 through 2001 were contaminated with benzene at levels above the federal limit for benzene in tap water.
The FDA test results, buried deep within an obscure FDA food testing program called the Total Diet Study, were posted on EWGas Web site, http://www.ewg.org/issues/toxics/20060404/index.php). This weekend, Great...
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