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A Single Slushie Can Exceed the Safe Limit for This Additive in Kids
One slushie. That's all it took, in documented hospital cases, for some young children to end up with dangerously low blood sugar, loss of consciousness, and symptoms severe enough to initially be mis... ...more
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September 15, 2026•6 min read
How Common Are PFAS Pesticides in Your Fruit and Veg, Really?
We've covered several individual PFAS pesticide stories recently, from a proposed residue increase on berries and new approvals in the US to the forever chemical TFA turning up in multiple unrelated p... ...more
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September 07, 2026•5 min read
Paraquat Just Survived a 30-Year Safety Review in Australia — Here's What Changed
Paraquat is a herbicide banned in 70+ countries over links to Parkinson's disease. Australia's regulator just finished a review that took almost 30 years — here's what paraquat actually is, why it's c... ...more
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August 31, 2026•6 min read
Health Star Ratings Are Going Mandatory — But a New Investigation Shows How Easily They're Gamed
Australia's Health Star Rating is about to stop being optional. After years of underwhelming voluntary uptake, food ministers have directed regulators to draft legislation making it compulsory on pack... ...more
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August 25, 2026•4 min read
PFAS Turned Up in Canola Oil Testing — Here's Where It's Actually Hiding
Canola oil shows up in an enormous range of packaged snacks, sauces and baked goods, and sits in a huge share of pantries as the default cooking oil. ...more
Goodnessly
August 16, 2026•5 min read
Lab-Grown Meat Is Already For Sale in Australia — Here's What's Actually Happening
Most people assume lab-grown meat is still a few years off — something happening in labs overseas, not on Australian menus yet. It's already here. ...more
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August 11, 2026•5 min read
The Race to Replace Palm Oil — What's Actually Coming to Shelves
Palm oil is in an enormous share of packaged food — biscuits, chocolate, instant noodles, bread, margarine — because it's cheap, stable at room temperature, and trans-fat free. ...more
Goodnessly
August 04, 2026•6 min read
Australia Just Proposed Allowing 500x More "Forever Chemical" Residue on Berries
Australian regulators have proposed allowing up to 500 times more residue of a pesticide called isocycloseram on some berries. The pesticide is classified as a PFAS "forever chemical" by international... ...more
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July 26, 2026•5 min read
The EU Just Banned "Forever Chemicals" From Food Packaging — Where Does Australia Stand?
If you've ever wondered why your takeaway box doesn't go soggy, or why a bakery bag doesn't leak butter, the answer is often PFAS — a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals used for decades to mak... ...more
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July 20, 2026•6 min read
New Zealand Just Restricted Glyphosate on Wheat, Barley and Oats — What About Australia?
In our last post on glyphosate, we covered why oats, wheat and barley carry some of the highest glyphosate residues of any food — not because of genetic modification, but because of a pre-harvest spra... ...more
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July 14, 2026•4 min read
Glyphosate: What It Is, Where It’s Hiding in Your Food, and What the Research Says About Its Effects on Our Health
Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide and is showing up in food, water, and human urine at increasing levels. Here’s what the research says, which foods carry the highest residue, and w... ...more
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July 06, 2026•9 min read
The 2025 Dirty Dozen: Which Fruits and Vegetables Have the Highest Pesticide Residue — and What to Do About Itg Post
The 2025 Dirty Dozen list from the Environmental Working Group has been updated. Blueberries and green beans are new additions. Here’s what the list means, which produce to prioritise buying organic, ... ...more
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June 29, 2026•6 min read
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