Environment
Nation’s Cosmetics Industry Calls for Greater FDA Role in Oversight of Ingredients in Personal Care Products
Groundbreaking Initiative from Personal Care Products Council Would Establish an Additional Layer of Federal Oversight & Enhance Existing Consumer Safeguards WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In a groundbreaking initiative intended ...
Well, Is It Organic or Not?
IT can be hard enough to decipher the term “organic” when it comes to food. Are there hormones in that skim milk? Did those chicken wings get enough exercise? But ...
Why Skin Cancer Is on the Rise
For years and years now, millions of sun worshippers across the country would hit the beaches during summer to work on the perfect, golden tan. However, the advent of indoor ...
A San Francisco Regulation Raises the Question: Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Do you know how much radiation your cell phone emits? You will from now on if you live in San Francisco. Yesterday the city's Board of Supervisors voted to require ...
Waiter, there’s a potential carcinogen in my soup
Four years ago, just after giving birth to her second child, the stay-at-home mom heard about BPA, a chemical inside some plastics that can leach into water or food slowly ...
Some Bisphenol A With Your Green Beans?
Nine out of ten. According to a study released today, (May 17) those are your chances of having some bisphenol A (BPA) with tonight’s dinner, if canned food is on ...
Op-Ed: A Scare, a Scar, a Silver Lining
My doctor’s call came early last month just as I was completing a column noting that 41 percent of Americans come down with cancer. That statistic felt as remote as ...
Another plastics ingredient raises safety concerns
A largely ignored contaminant doesn’t just resemble bisphenol A, the chemical found to leach out of hard plastic water bottles. It’s BPA’s fluorinated twin — on steroids. BPA's structure resembles ...
Environmental Cancer Risks More Dangerous
Household and workplace chemicals might contribute to a larger percentage of cancer deaths than previously thought, according to a presidential panel. Pollutants and other chemicals in your environment — your ...
President’s panel analyzes environmental cancer impact
Environmental toxins are a greater cause of cancer than previously believed, according to a new report from the President's Cancer Panel — an advisory group that considers testimony from several ...
FDA Backtracks on Potential Danger of BPA
Agency Now Says It Has 'Some Concerns' About Health Effects of the Chemical - For years the Food and Drug Administration has insisted that Bisphenol-A, or BPA, a chemical found ...
Early-life Chemical Exposure Critical to Later-Life Breast Cancer Risk
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Contact: Shannon Coughlin, 415-346-8223 x14 / 415-336-2246 cell San Francisco - A scientific review article published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health shows ...