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037    11554483|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 
040    Midwest|beng|cCtWisc 
099    eVideo hoopla 
245 00 Our daily poison:|bNotre poison quotidien. 
246 31 Notre poison quotidien 
264  1 [United States] :|bIcarus Films :|bMade available through 
       hoopla,|c2011. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 112 min.)) 
       :|bsound, color 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
500    GMD: electronic resource. 
506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
508    Directed by Marie-Monique Robin. 
520    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 tumors in 
       children has been around 2% per year. The WHO has observed
       a similar trend for neurological diseases (Parkinson's and
       Alzheimer's) and autoimmune disorders, and for 
       reproduction dysfunctions. What explanations can be found 
       for this worrying epidemic, which is hitting the 
       "developed" countries particularly hard? Haunted by that 
       question, director Marie-Monique Robin launches an in-
       depth investigation into everyday products and the system 
       charged with regulating them. Robin digs through the 
       United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the 
       European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) archives, manages to
       talk her way into secret meetings, and meets with 
       regulators and respected renegade researchers throughout 
       North American and Europe. The result is Our Daily Poison-
       a shocking documentary film that reveals a broken safety 
       system concerned more with protecting trade secrets than 
       human health. (In one key moment, a member of the UN 
       agency responsible for setting acceptable daily limits of 
       poisonous chemicals admits that the numbers are 
       "theoretical" and have "nothing to do with the real 
       world.") The film shows that the main cause of the 
       epidemic is environmental: it is the result of the 100,000
       chemical molecules that have invaded our environment, and 
       primarily our food, since the end of the Second World War.
       The film is divided into three distinct, but interrelated 
       sections, making it ideal for classroom use. In the first,
       Robin meets farmers suffering horrific health problems-
       such as leukemia, Parkinson's, and brain lesions-linked to
       pesticide poisoning, and looks into the effects those same
       pesticides have on people eating fruits and vegetables. 
       Robin then moves on to the broken regulatory regime, using
       the artificial sweetener Aspartame as a case study. It is 
       a cautionary tale about the revolving door between 
       government and industry, and the influence of money on 
       research findings. Finally, Our Daily Poison reveals the 
       inadequacies of testing individual compounds in a world 
       where everyone carries around a cocktail of synthetic 
       chemicals absorbed from food and the environment-many of 
       them mimicking the body's own hormones. Our Daily Poison 
       is a smart, well-researched and thoroughly compelling 
       documentary that will reshape the way you think about 
       everyday products and the systems that are supposed to 
       ensure their safety. 
521 8  Not rated. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 10 United States.|bFood and Drug Administration. 
610 20 European Food Safety Authority. 
650  0 Food law and legislation|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Food law and legislation|zEurope|xHistory. 
650  0 Food adulteration and inspection. 
650  0 Pesticide residues in food. 
650  0 Food additives|xToxicology. 
650  0 Food contamination. 
650  0 Food industry and trade. 
700 1  Robin, Marie-Monique. 
700 1  Valero, Jean-Louis. 
730 0  hoopla (Digital media service) 
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