Shampoo: What to Look For, What to Avoid
It’s nice to feel clean. Stepping out of the shower is a moment refreshing not just to body, but also to mind and spirit. Getting clean, however, can be more of a journey than we think. Every day we...
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Good News? BPA Is Officially Toxic In California
One of the most widespread chemicals in our bodies, bisphenol-A or BPA, has been added to the list of reproductive toxins that require warning labels under Prop 65. The decision from California EPA’s...
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Are Antibacterial Products Safe? FDA Set to Review Triclosan
The FDA has been urged to settle a 40-year-old review of the antibacterial chemical triclosan. Nixon was president when Congress first tasked the FDA to develop guidelines for common antibacterials...
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Plastic Health Harm: Your Body and the Global Community, 6/27/13
The final event in our Breaking the Chains of Plastic event series focuses on consumer plastics, and the hidden, global story these everyday products take through their production, use, and disposal....
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A Better Way to Raise Cancer Awareness: Dirty Dozen of Endocrine Disruptors
We’ve passed through October, and the swaths of pink that accompany Breast Cancer Awareness month have had their run. Now we’re in the midst of Movember, which does similar work for prostate and...
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Victory for Safer Sofas!
Good tidings! The Center for Environmental Health announced that Gov. Jerry Brown approved new standards that protect everyone’s health, by limiting unnecessary exposure to toxic flame retardants. This...
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Beyond BPA: Study Shows that Most Plastics Leach Synthetic Estrogens
Mother Jones published an article in their latest issue that highlights the risk of even BPA-free plastics. They focus on the research of George Bittner, a neurobiologist University of Texas Austin,...
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Roundup Found in Breast Milk
A group of moms have gone to the EPA with their concerns that glysophate, the chemical used in the pesticide Roundup, has made its way into breastmilk. The EPA has said it will review whether...
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Let Chemical Industry Write Their Own Toxins Regulation? No Way!
After 39 years, we’re overdue for an update on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), our country’s chemical safety bill. To protect citizen’s health, we need revisions that bolster the EPA’s ability...
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