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BPA

Canada to Take Immediate Action to Reduce BPA Exposure for Infants

As soon as tomorrow, Canadian health officials are poised to list the synthetic sex hormone bisphenol-A (BPA) as a toxic substance. Canada's action, which paves the way for an expected ban on BPA...
Toxic Chemicals
Mercury
Food & Water
Food

EWG and 18,000 supporters call for FDA to improve seafood consumption advice for pregnant women and children

EWG and 18,444 EWG supporters ask the Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee to improve new draft advice on seafood consumption during pregnancy and childhood.
Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Under Proposed Rocket Fuel Standards, Many Women Would Need Treatment to Protect Baby

Exposure to a rocket fuel chemical widespread in the U.S. drinking water and food supply, at levels equal to or lower than national and state standards, could cause thyroid deficiency in more than 2...
Food & Water
Household & Consumer Products
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Regional Issues
California

Bill Advances to Protect California Workers From Lead Exposure on the Job

California lawmakers passed a measure Wednesday to safeguard workers and their families from the toxic effects of lead exposure, following revelations that state officials failed to investigate...

Research

Bisphenol A - Toxic Plastics Chemical in Canned Food

EWG laboratory tests found a toxic food-can lining ingredient associated with birth defects of the male and female reproductive systems in over half of 97 cans of name-brand fruit, vegetables, soda, and other commonly eaten canned goods. The study targeted the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic and resin ingredient used to line metal food and drink cans. There are no government safety standards
Toxic Chemicals

Toxic babies

It's hard to talk about pregnancy without talking about a woman's right to give birth to pollution-free babies.
Research

Toxic Plastics Chemical in Infant Formula

Laboratory tests of canned infant formula conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a certified commercial laboratory reveal that a plastics chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from metal can linings into formula. According to a new EWG analyses, the amount of BPA ingested by some bottle-fed infants exceeds the doses that caused serious adverse effects in animal studies.
Toxic Chemicals
Food
Food & Water

Toxic Contamination Begins in the Womb

National media outlets, public health officials and Congress have all focused recently on lead contamination in drinking water, as they should be. The tainted water in Flint, Mich., Newark, N.J. and...

Toxic Chemicals
Flame Retardants

TOXIC FIRE RETARDANT FOUND IN SAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA MILK

In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American mothers, Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known thyroid toxins...
Cosmetics

Toxic makeup all around the world

Breast cancer rates are rising all over the world, not just in the U.S. A recent World Health Organization report states that the disease has dramatically risen in the last 20 years, in some countries...

New study and new dangers of the old toxic Teflon chemical

We suspected this for a while but the new study proves it all - PFOA, the chemical found in Teflon, has dangerous consequences for the reproductive health of women. The UCLA-based team of scientists...
Toxic Chemicals
BPA

Toxic Chemicals Found in Minority Cord Blood

Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Rachel's Network have detected bisphenol A (BPA) for the first time in the umbilical cord blood of U.S. newborns.
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Toxic Chemicals May Increase Chances of Regaining Weight After Dieting

Exposure to fluorinated industrial chemicals, known as PFAS or PFC chemicals, may increase the amount of weight that people, especially women, regain after dieting, according to a new study by Harvard...

Household & Consumer Products
Food & Water
Food & Water

EWG’s News Roundup (8/18): EPA Chisels Away at Environmental Protection, Cosmetics Put Women of Color at Risk and Food Chemicals Linked to Obesity

Here's some news you can use going into the weekend.

Household & Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Cleaning Supplies
Cookware & Food Containers
Food

EWG's 10 tips for a less toxic pregnancy

Last week we told you about the 232 toxic chemicals we found in umbilical cord blood. This week we tell you how to reduce your exposures to toxic chemicals to keep them out of your womb.
Research

How Toxic Pollutants Can Harm Future, Unexposed Generations

In the last decade, studies by EWG and other researchers have firmly established that toxic chemicals can pass from pregnant women to fetuses through the umbilical cord, affecting children's future health and development. Now a growing body of research shows that some chemicals may alter gene function in ways that can be passed on not only to the immediate offspring, but also to grandchildren and
Food & Water
Water
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

PFAS and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity: An EWG Fact Sheet

The toxic fluorinated per-and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals known as PFAS are a class of thousands of environmentally persistent synthetic chemicals that have been used since the 1940s. They are added as...
Cosmetics
Household & Consumer Products
Asbestos
Mercury
Lead
PFAS Chemicals
Regional Issues
California

Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act Protects Public Health From Lead, Asbestos and Other Toxic Chemicals in Personal Care Products

Today supporters gathered at the California State Capitol to urge the state Assembly to pass the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, A.B. 495. If passed, the law would ban toxic ingredients like lead, mercury...

Pregnancy today: A lesson in toxics

When I was pregnant for the first time, I was all about prenatal yoga, checking my baby's amazing developing body online, and comparing symptoms with friends. As it should be. What I wasn't doing was...
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals

Premature Births Linked to Toxic Chemicals

The rate of premature births in the U.S. is among the highest in the developed world, with nearly one in 10 babies born in 2014 arriving before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Toxic Chemicals

Toxic Fire Retardants Building Up Rapidly in CA Fish

Levels of a little-known class of neurotoxic chemicals found in computers, TV sets, cars and furniture are building up rapidly in key indicator species of San Francisco Bay fish, according to tests by...
BPA

Lawmakers Push To Protect Consumers From Toxic BPA

Several members of Congress are pushing a bill to better protect consumers – particularly the elderly, pregnant women children, and workers – from a known toxic hormone disruptor bisphenol-A, or BPA.

Toxic Chemicals
Perchlorate
Food & Water
Water

Thyroid Toxin Taints Water Supplies for Millions in Calif. & Nationwide

Sources of drinking water for more than 7 million Californians and unknown millions of other Americans are contaminated with a chemical that disrupts child development and may cause thyroid cancer...

Toxic Chemicals
Chemical Policy

Strengthening Public Health Protections by Addressing Toxic Chemical Threats

Testimony of Kenneth A. Cook, President, Environmental Working Group before the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate on strengthening public health protections by...