1 day ago ... By David Andrews Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist. It's that time of year again, when students everywhere try to figure out how well they need to do ...
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Now California, the most populous state in the country, is poised to declare BPA as toxic to the reproductive system in people under Proposition 65, the state's consumer products safeguards law. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment made its decision followin...
« Parkinson's and Pesticides | Main Study Links Hair Products to Early Puberty in Girls January 17, 2013 By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow As a child, one of my least favorite activities was getting my hair styled. It required a lot of time and patience -- two things I had in s...
Even worse, the Kids + Chemicals site offers misleading information about the few chemical hazards it does address. For example, a parent scanning the website's asthma page to see if cleaning products can trigger attacks is told, "although we can rely on animal research to get this ki...
« Cooking Through Winter's Bitter Bounty | Main Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides in Food December 4, 2012 By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a policy statement that calls on the governme...
« EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S.F. Cell Phone Radiation Law | Main EWG's Guide to a Healthy Thanksgiving November 13, 2012 This year, give thanks with less--fewer pesticides, greenhouse gases and maybe less money. Small turkeys can be tastier. And when you cook just wha...
Yes, arsenic. It's a naturally occurring mineral with a long history as a murder weapon, and, paradoxically, as a medicine, too. In some parts of the world, contamination levels are so high in food and water as to cause epidemics of skin, bladder and lung cancer. In the United States ...
« EWG to FDA: Step It Up on Formaldehyde-Laced Hair Straighteners | Main FDA Warns Of Mercury in Skin Creams March 9, 2012 By: Etan Yeshua, Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week that more than 35 imported skin creams, antiseptic soaps and anti-aging...
Chen and Hessler reviewed a recent study led by David C. Bellinger - the noted environmental epidemiologist and pediatric neuropsychologist who divides his duties as a professor between Harvard's Medical School and its School of Public Health. If Bellinger's calculations are accurate,...
