The federal Food and Drug Administration is on track to approve AquaBounty AquAdvantage Transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered animal intended for us to eat. These fish produce enough growth hormones to grow at twice the natural rate. They will be in supermarkets without a label!
Tell the FDA that genetically engineered salmon should be labeled!
Right now, cosmetics companies can put almost any ingredient they want into personal care products without having to prove that the ingredients are safe. It's way past time for Congress to step up and start looking out for us.
Johnson & Johnson - makers of brands like Neutrogena, Aveeno, Clean & Clear, RoC and Lubriderm - announced that it will reformulate its products to remove dangerous chemicals like formaldehyde-releasers and triclosan. This is a major victory for Americans' health and safety.
In 2011, the federal Food and Drug Administration issued new sunscreen regulations that banned the terms "sunblock," "sweatproof" and "waterproof" on sunscreen labels. Since the 1990s, the FDA has considered these terms misleading. But just last week, EWG researchers found sunscreens using these over-hyped claims still on store shelves.
Tell the nation's largest retailers to take sunscreens with bogus claims of their shelves.
We have an unprecedented chance to shift to BPA-free cans and bottles. By March 31 the FDA plans to rule on food packaging that leaches bisphenol A. There is no time to lose – make sure the FDA hears from you before it makes its call.
Click here to take action today – tell the FDA to get BPA out of food packaging!
Americans are clamoring for affordable, locally-produced food that's better for health and the environment (and tastier too!). The Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act would make more organic and locally produced food available in schools, grocery stores and restaurants.
Click here to tell Congress to support the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act!
EWG counts on the USDA to publish complete, unbiased pesticide data to create EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. For the last two years, the pesticide lobby, especially a front group called the Alliance for Food and Farming, has waged a multi-front campaign to get the USDA to repackage its pesticide data with industry talking points that downplay risks and consumers' concerns.
Sign our petition to the USDA today! You want to know what you are eating
Genetically engineered foods are appearing on supermarket shelves with increasing frequency. While the scientific debate about the benefits and risks of genetically engineered crops will continue for a long time, you have a right to know what you are eating.
Big food companies and their highly paid advertising agencies are aggressively lobbying the government to kill the federal Interagency Working Group's new children's food marketing guidelines, which aim to promote sales of more healthful foods.
EWG is asking big food manufacturers to stop attacks on sensible new marketing guidelines. Join us in demanding that food companies market healthier food to children, not to lobby to keep peddling junk food to kids.
Click here to sign our petition to 14 food manufacturers today!
