Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12066
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Online from publishing organization website. 5 pages., Report of letters sent to companies making questionable COVID-19 claims of treatments, prevention, or cures. Brief descriptions of the 45 disputed claims, ranging from musical medicine to holistic health acupuncture.
Online from publisher. 3 pages., In this commentary, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Food and Farming argues that the "dirty dozen" list published annually by the Environmental Working Group is "scientifically unsupportable, negatively impacts consumers and it is insulting to farmers and farm workers working hard every day to provide produce to consumers." She says, "If we have learned anything from the pandemic, it is that science (not rhetoric or false claims) needs to guide our health and safety choices."
