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Food Safety
Food Safety is a recurring research topic on Health Canon. This hub collects related explainers and protocols, newest first, each with evidence grades and practical decision frameworks.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Prevention Stack: Food, Water, Travel, and Home
Cook it, peel it, or forget it; safe water; hand hygiene; pinworm household rules; destination-specific malaria and freshwater advice—prevention outruns cleanses.
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Nutrition
Ochratoxin and Food Mycotoxins: Dose Context Deep Dive
Ochratoxin A in grains, coffee, wine, and dried foods is a food-safety contaminant problem with regulatory limits—not proof that a damp bedroom equals dietary toxin dosing.
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Nutrition
Fresh vs Oxidized Seed Oils: Why Heating and Reuse Change the Health Question
Fresh culinary oils ≠ multi-day industrial fryer oil. Oxidation products—aldehydes, polar compounds—track abuse more than the mere presence of linoleic acid.
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Environmental Health
Parasite Transmission Pathways: Food, Water, Vectors, Blood, Zoonoses
CDC groups parasitic transmission by pathway. Prevention and clinical suspicion follow food, water, insects, blood, and animals—not generic detox stories.
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Environmental Health
Ochratoxin and Other Food Mycotoxins Beyond Aflatoxin
OTA, fumonisins, DON, and zearalenone—food-system toxins with different organs and stories.
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Environmental Health
Aflatoxin: Food, Occupational Exposure, and Health Stakes
Aspergillus toxins in crops versus workplace dust—dose ladders that matter.
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Environmental Health
Mycotoxins: Food Dose vs Home Inhalation Dose Gap
Codex food limits are real. Residential air mycotoxicosis is a weaker, different claim.
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Women's Health
Toxoplasma in Pregnancy: Prevention Habits That Actually Matter
Toxoplasma gondii infects tens of millions of U.S. residents; pregnancy is the severity filter. Meat, produce, litter boxes, and soil—not cat exile myths—drive prevention.
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Nutrition
3-MCPD and Glycidyl Esters in Refined Oils: Hexane Is Not the Main Story
Process contaminants from high-heat deodorization beat residual solvent myths for real risk talk.
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Environmental Health
EFSA PFAS TWI Explained: 4.4 ng/kg Body Weight per Week
Europe’s food-risk number is an intake limit—not a water ppt MCL. How EFSA derived 4.4 ng/kg/week for four PFAS and how not to mix units with EPA rules.
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Expert Dossiers
Paul Saladino Raw Dairy Risks: Enzymes Narrative vs Pathogen Reality
Pasteurization kills pathogens. That is the point—not a conspiracy against enzymes.
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Environmental Health
Heating Food in Plastic: Packaging Transfer and Microplastic Risk
Food-contact plastics can shed particles and leach additives—especially with heat and fat. What EFSA, FDA, and exposure studies say about real kitchen habits.
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