1. Provide the title of your story or series and the names of the journalists involved.
Food Sleuth Radio with Sandra Steingraber: Living Downstream – The Cancer-Environment Connection Melinda Hemmelgarn, Radio host
2. List date(s) this work was published or aired.
Aired on July 22, 2010
3. Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.
My 30- minute interview with Dr. Sandra Steingraber, biologist, cancer survivor and author of "Living Downstream," explores an often neglected cause of cancer: environmental toxins. She discusses the challenges and wisdom of applying the Precautionary Principle to our lives and public policy, the perceived higher price of organic food, and feelings of helplessness in a poisoned environment.
4. Explain types of documents, data or Internet resources used. Were FOI or public records act requests required? How did this affect the work?
Living Downstream, 2nd Edition, and website, www.livingdownstream.com; President's Cancer Panel Report; and, Brownfield News Service, on line story celebrating the pesticide Atrazine, helped to inform and shape my interview.
5. Explain types of human sources used.
Only my guest and my personal experience as a dietitian working in the field of sustainable agriculture and clinical nutrition.
6. Results (if any).
None that I'm aware of outside of expanding awareness of listeners.
7. Follow-up (if any). Have you run a correction or clarification on the report or has anyone come forward to challenge its accuracy? If so, please explain.
No one has challenged the story; no corrections.
8. Advice to other journalists planning a similar story or project.
Please pursue this story and more like it.