{"id":1044,"date":"2011-11-22T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-our-daily-poison-now-available-in-media-services\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:29:00","slug":"hot-docs-our-daily-poison-now-available-in-media-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-our-daily-poison-now-available-in-media-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs:  Our Daily Poison now available in Media Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> has doubled over the last thirty years (after allowing for the<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> population aging factor). Over this period, the increase in leukemia<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> and brain tumours in children has been around 2% per year. The WHO has<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> observed a similar trend for neurological diseases (Parkinson\u2019s and<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> Alzheimer\u2019s) and autoimmune disorders, and for reproduction<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> dysfunctions. What explanations can be found for this worrying<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> epidemic, which is hitting the \u201cdeveloped\u201d countries particularly<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> hard?<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> Haunted by that question, director Marie-Monique Robin launches<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> an in-depth investigation into everyday products and the system<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> charged with regulating them. Robin digs through the United States<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> Authority (EFSA) archives, manages to talk her way into secret<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> meetings, and meets with regulators and respected renegade researchers<\/span><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> throughout North American and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">DVD 9203<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span>Distributor description:  <a href=\"http:\/\/icarusfilms.com\/new2011\/pois.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/icarusfilms.com\/new2011\/pois.html<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer has doubled over the last thirty years (after allowing for the population aging factor). Over this period, the increase in leukemia and brain tumours in children has been around 2% per year. The WHO has observed a similar trend for neurological diseases (Parkinson\u2019s and Alzheimer\u2019s) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-acquisitions","category-recommendations","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}