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Government Advisory Report Gives “Shocking” Advice on Seafood Consumption

Environmental Working Group and Mercury Policy Project strongly disagree with a federal scientific panel's recommendation, made public last week, that federal agencies stop warning pregnant women to...

Research

Not Too Pretty

In May 2002 a coalition of environmental and public health organizations contracted with a major national laboratory to test 72 name-brand, off-the-shelf beauty products for the presence of phthalates, a large family of industrial chemicals linked to per- manent birth defects in the male reproductive system.

August 2016: Mapping Cancer Worldwide

In the U.S., and most of the world, breast cancer is the most common cancer to strike women. But for Chinese women it's lung cancer, and in some African, and South and Central American nations, it's...
Mercury

Follow Up to Utility Industry-Funded Study Leads to Finding that Mercury in Fish No Problem, Scores of Independent Studies Suggest

In an effort to divert building efforts to warn American women about the dangers of mercury-contaminated tuna fish, seafood industry lobbyists are hyping a study originally funded by the mercury...
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water
Water

The Science on PFAS: Rebuttal to 3M’s Claims

For decades, 3M was a leading producer of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS. As early as the 1950s, 3M's own studies showed that PFAS chemicals built up in blood, and by the 1960s, 3M's...
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies
Toxic Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

California Legislation Introduced to Ensure Consumer Right to Know What’s In Cleaning Products

Sacramento, Calif. – The Environmental Working Group and the Breast Cancer Fund congratulate Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer, Sr. (D-Los Angeles) for introducing much-needed legislation...

Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies
Toxic Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Bill to Disclose Ingredients in Cleaning Products Gets Hearing

On Wednesday, March 29 at 9:30 a.m., the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee will consider the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017 (SB-258).

Mercury

Mercury Memo

Like lead, mercury is toxic to the developing brain. It blocks the natural formation and migration of nerve cells and alters brain growth and development. The fetus is most vulnerable to mercury and...

EWG Comments to the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors

Below and attached are comments EWG has submitted to the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors on the NTP's efforts to investigate the effects of cumulative exposures to mixtures...
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies
Toxic Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Bill Would Give Californians Right to Know What’s in Cleaning Products

State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, introduced legislation today to require manufacturers to disclose the ingredients in cleaning products used by consumers and professional cleaning workers. If...

EWG news roundup (8/26): Calif. passes bill to ban intentionally added PFAS in cosmetic products, a look at the 2022 toxic algae season and more

EWG news roundup (8/26): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

EWG News Roundup

FDA Fish Folly

The following is a guest post from EWG Senior Analyst Sonya Lunder. Ah, December. Season of holiday lights, office parties and weekly announcements of Bush Administration actions to weaken health...
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies

Cleaning Products May Harm Female Workers’ Lungs as Much as Smoking a Pack a Day

The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, is thought to be the first to assess occupational or domestic cleaning product exposure as it relates to the...

Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Study: Teflon Chemical Linked to Childhood Obesity

Children born to mothers who were exposed during pregnancy to higher levels of PFOA, the non-stick chemical DuPont formerly used to make Teflon, tend to put on more weight and do so more quickly than...

Toxic Chemicals
Pesticides
Farming & Agriculture
Food & Water
Food

Big Ag’s “Celery Calculator” Lowballs Pesticide Risk

Big agribusiness hates it when we talk dirty. The Dirty Dozen that is, EWG's list of fresh fruits and vegetables that are most likely to carry pesticide residues.
Phthalates

EWG Supports Maryland Bill for Safer Children's Products

STATEMENT OF JANE HOULIHAN Vice President for Research, Environmental Working Group Hearing on House Bill 56: Phthalates and Bisphenol-A - Prohibitions - Toys and Child Care Articles Before the...
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

PFAS news roundup

July 23: California proposes bold public health goals for PFAS in water, House passes PFAS Action Act with bipartisan support and more
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Toxic Chemicals
Mercury
Food & Water
Food

Mercury in Tuna Plummets As Coal-Fired Power Drops

A bit of good news for seafood lovers: Scientists at Stony Brook University recently reported a notable drop in mercury concentrations in bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine over the past decade.

Are we using the best available science to prevent breast cancer?

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as we pause to think about the consequences of breast cancer for ourselves and our families, a question presents itself - how can we best use the...
Chemical Policy

Cancer: Putting Prevention First

Medical experts will never cease searching for cures for the gravest illnesses that afflict people. But a growing consensus is forming in the medical and public health communities that preventing...
Chemical Policy
BPA

New Research Fuels Demand for BPA-Free Food Cans

EWG writes FDA commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg that a pivotal new study intensifies concerns about the danger of bisphenol A, plastics chemical and synthetic estrogen, to public health.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Household & Consumer Products

IQs Plummet and Healthcare Costs Surge from Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Hormone-disrupting chemicals take a staggering toll on U.S. health care costs and reduce American brain power, according to a shocking new study by a team of leading environmental health scientists.
Water
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

Tap water chemical risky for the pregnant

Reuters Published January 9, 2002 High levels of chlorination byproducts (CPBs) in drinking water put pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarriages or having children with birth defects, according...

There are studies. And then there are studies.

By now you're probably familiar with the controversy around the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) failure to consider all available, credible scientific evidence before it reassured the public...