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The Met Office has warned Essex residents of extreme heat this week, with temperatures expected to reach mid 30s.

With the UK bracing for another heatwave, Stansted Airport has released 10 destinations to escape the hot weather.

Essex Police officers PC Robert Bradbrook, PC Charlotte Mixter, PC Charlie Jones and an officer only known as PC B attended a property in November 2024 after receiving multiple concerned calls for the welfare of a woman.

Marsh tits, a small woodland bird, are disappearing from the Essex landscape due to fragmenting woodland.

The Met Office has warned Essex residents of extreme heat this week, with temperatures expected to reach mid 30s.

Essex Police officers PC Robert Bradbrook, PC Charlotte Mixter, PC Charlie Jones and an officer only known as PC B attended a property in November 2024 after receiving multiple concerned calls for the welfare of a woman.

With the UK bracing for another heatwave, Stansted Airport has released 10 destinations to escape the hot weather.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a legal petition demanding it set limits on toxic Pfas "forever chemicals" in food, marking another setback for public health advocates' push to limit exposures to the dangerous compounds. The agency is refusing to set limits despite a growing body of science and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding food is the biggest source of Pfas exposure. Testing has found the levels of Pfas in single servings of some contaminated foods to be equivalent to drinking many glasses of contaminated water. While regulators have focused on reining in Pfas in water, the chemicals are widely used throughout the food system, and there was hope that the agency under Robert F Kennedy Jr would take the threat more seriously. Kennedy leads the "make America healthy again" (Maha) movement, of which eliminating toxic chemicals from food is a cornerstone. [...] The November 2023 petition called on the FDA to check for up to 30 Pfas compounds in a range of produce, fish, eggs, milk and bread. The agency did not respond within the six-month timeframe required by law, but TEJTF scaled back its petition in 2025 to ask the agency to set advisory thresholds for PFOA and Pfos, two of the most common and dangerous Pfas compounds, in seafood and milk. Recent FDA testing found 70% of seafood samples contain the chemicals, while independent milk testing found it in 12% of 50 samples, including extremely high levels in Whole Foods and Kirkland Signature brands. The FDA rejected the revised petition, stating it plans to take action on setting standards for Pfas, and there is "insufficient evidence to support [TEJTF's] request." The agency said it plans to set less non-binding "action levels" that do not require contaminated food to be removed from shelves. "Tolerance levels," or limits, make it illegal to sell food contaminated beyond a set threshold.

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