Toxic roulette.
Chicago Tribune May 10, 2012 Michael Hawthorne Firemaster 550, touted as safe, is the latest in a long line of flame retardants allowed onto the... Read More
Chemical industry lobbyists keep stronger oversight plan at bay.
Chicago Tribune May 10, 2012 Michael Hawthorne With efforts to revamp the nation’s chemical safety law stalled in Congress, the Obama administration’s top environmental regulator... Read More
US scientist: ‘Many routes of exposure’ to endocrine disruptors.
Shanna H. Swan, a renowned scientist specialising in reproductive medicine, has warned about the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals known as phthalates which can end up in food via pesticides or plastics. In an interview with EurActiv, she calls on regulators to better protect consumers against those "hidden chemicals".
1,4-Dioxane and Laundry Soap: Free and Gentle or a Marketing Free-for-All?
Huffington Post May 7, 2012 Bill Chameides More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their... Read More
It’s party time!
Pregnancy & newborn May 2, 2012 So you and your friends have done book club get-togethers, wine tasting shindigs and even batch cooking dinners. But... Read More
Tide Detergent Found To Contain High Levels Of 1,4-Dioxane, Carcinogenic Contaminant.
Huffington Post April 26, 2012 Matt Hickman, Mother Nature Network Now, you probably have enough to worry about as it is with geese colliding into... Read More
Procter & Gamble Defends Against Claims that Tide Detergents Contain Carcinogens.
Forbes April 30, 2012 Amy Westervelt Last year, in its Dirty Secrets report, environmental group Women’s Voices for the Earth sent 20 different cleaning products... Read More
Can heavy metal in foods, cosmetics spur breast cancer spread?
Prolonged exposure to low levels of the heavy metal cadmium may fuel the growth of some breast cancer cells and encourage them to spread, preliminary research indicates.
Womens’ chemical exposure during pregnancy promotes obesity in daughters.
Pre-birth exposures to low doses of a compound-- PFOA -- that has been widely found in fast food packaging and household products, may increase body weight in women but not men, a new study finds.
Tide detergent found to contain high levels of carcinogenic contaminant
Mother Nature Network blog April 25, 2012 Matt Hickman Move over phthalates … there’s a new controversial household chemical in town. Its name? 1,4-dioxane and... Read More
