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When Should You Buy Organic?
If you're concerned about food safety, you probably already look for organic produce at the supermarket. But if you can't always buy organic, you can still dramatically lower your family's exposure to...
Groups Demand Immediate Halt to Food Uses of Fluoride-Based Pesticide
EWG, Fluoride Action Network and Beyond Pesticides demand immediate suspension of all uses of fluoride-based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride.
FDA Finds High Benzene Levels in Limited Test of Drinks
Today FDA announced it found high levels of benzene in several samples in a test of a small number of sodas and juice drinks.
FDA Data Undercut Public Safety Assurances by Top Agency Official
Letter to the FDA regarding benzene in soft drinks with compilation of data from 1995-2001 study.
House Set To Nullify State Consumer Safety Programs Under Pressure From Corporate Food Lobby
The House votes today on a bill pitting giant food companies against the health and safety of American families—a measure that could nullify state laws warning consumers about mercury in fish, lead in...
Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene
Today the Environmental Working Group (EWG) sent a letter to the FDA requesting that the Agency notify the public about the presence of two ingredients in many popular children's drinks that can mix...
Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food
EWG, Beyond Pesticides and Fluoride Action Network challenge the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride-based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride.
Children's Health Panel Says EPA Failing to Protect Kids From Rocket Fuel
In a sharp rebuke to the Bush Administration, a federal advisory committee on children's health warns that the EPA's recommended cleanup level for a rocket fuel chemical fails to protect children...
TOXIC ROCKET FUEL FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK
Milk from cows raised in some parts of California may expose infants and children to more of a toxic rocket fuel chemical than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and...
New FDA Seafood Advisory is Industry Giveaway
Air pollution from coal burned in power plants is a major source of mercury in fish. If women follow the FDA's advice and eat one can of albacore tuna a week, hundreds of thousands more babies will be...
First-Ever U.S. Tests of Farmed Salmon Show High Levels of Cancer-Causing PCBs
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) today released results of the most extensive tests to date of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs) levels in farmed salmon consumed in the United States...
Fast Food Companies Asked to Disclose Use of Toxic Chemicals in Food Packaging
EWG asks the CEOs of nine major fast food corporations to disclose the use of toxic nonstick chemicals in their packaging.
Senator Boxer's letter to FDA
Correspondence regarding perchlorate contamination in food growth in the United States
Suspect Salads: Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Samples of Winter Lettuce
Lettuce grown in the fall and winter months in Southern California or Arizona may contain higher levels of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
EWG Study Finds FDA Out to Lunch on Protecting Women from Mercury in Fish
Internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveal that the agency is failing in its public health obligation to protect pregnant women and...
Government Seafood Consumption Advice Could Expose 1 In 4 Newborns to Elevated Mercury Levels
Government recommendations for fish consumption could expose more than one in four expectant mothers - 1 million women - to enough mercury to put the health of their fetuses at risk, according to a...
USDA sides with EWG on E. coli
The food poisoning test that ABC News Correspondent John Stossel used to allege that organic food "could kill you" cannot definitively prove any risk of food poisoning, according to a letter issued by...
OTA: ABC planned apology does not go far enough
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) today said ABC News intentions to announce a brief token apology on Friday's 20/20 falls far short of what the network must do to make amends to the organic...
Truth Wins Round One: ABC Confirms Stossel's Pesticide Results don't Exist
After six months of stone-walling, ABC News yesterday confirmed an Environmental Working Group (EWG) allegation that the network did not conduct pesticide tests for a special "20/20" investigation by...
ABC Correspondent John Stossel's Attack on Organic Food Industry Exposed as a Fraud
Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Organic Trade Association (OTA) will release new evidence on Thursday that ABC Correspondent John Stossel knew himself months before his story ran that he...