Vitamins, diabetic drugs to cost more (Business Standard India) Vitamins and diabetic drugs will get costlier as the drug price regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has increased the prices of various formulation packs. [News Source]

Could totally local be the wrong approach? Author James E. McWilliams argues that buying locally grown foods from small farms may not always be the ethical way to eat, and that genetically modified crops don't deserve their bad rap. [News Source]

Superfund report for Rialto expected early next year. State officials early next year will release a report on the amount of public exposure to contaminants from a 160-acre northside site placed recently on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund National Priorities List. [News Source]

Feds reviewing humpback whale endangered status. The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in recent decades. [News Source]

‘Smart Choices’ food label: a sign of nutrition or marketing? It might surprise people that Lucky Charms, Froot Loops, Ritz Bits Peanut Butter Chocolatey Blast crackers and Kid Cuisine Magical Cheese Stuffed Crust Cheese Pizza meals are billed as "Smart Choices" under a controversial new food-rating program. [News Source]

NZ food has no chemical residue risk. The average New Zealand diet poses no chemical residue risk to consumers' health, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority says. [News Source]

Waist-deep in fieldwork. Anticipating global warming, scientists are measuring the long-term effect of extra carbon dioxide on marsh plants. [News Source]

The high cost of nourishing the North. As winter ice closes in on remote Arctic communities and closes off supply routes, the most basic necessities become precious, and pricey, commodities. But global warming may be changing that. [News Source]

Killer whales love to dine on chinook salmon, which could further endanger their future. Killer whales attack prey as large as gray whales and as small as herring. But the killer whales of the San Juan Islands prefer to eat chinook salmon -- and that could be their ruin. [News Source]

Fish and paint chips Part II: The politics of ocean trash. When it comes to reducing garbage in the world’s oceans, the political angle is just as important as the scientific, to judge by industry’s behavior. [News Source]

Superfund report for Rialto expected early next year. State officials early next year will release a report on the amount of public exposure to contaminants from a 160-acre northside site placed recently on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund National Priorities List. [News Source]

NZ food has no chemical residue risk. The average New Zealand diet poses no chemical residue risk to consumers' health, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority says. [News Source]