High levels of toxic PBDE found in pregnant California women.
A study released Wednesday found the highest levels ever reported among pregnant women worldwide of toxic polybrominated diphenyl ethers, flame retardant chemicals largely banned in California in 2004.
It’s glymes time: EPA takes on obscure chemicals in consumer products.
Hardly anyone has heard of them, but millions of pounds of glymes are used every year to make household products. Now time is running out for glymes – at least when it comes to new uses in consumer products. The US EPA announced that it plans to clam...
Scrutinizing sunscreens.
Lotions containing inorganic nanoparticles are drawing the attention of toxicologists and the ire of some consumer groups.
Safe Planet campaign uses the arts to explain chemical threat.
Telling someone they’ve been poisoned in ways that could reshape their DNA and be carried on to their descendants – possibly causing cancer, neurological illness, mental deficiency, birth defects, brain damage and death – isn’t easy. But that