I am writing to say HOORAY and thank you! Last week CA Governor Newsom signed 3 BCPP-sponsored bills into law, reducing our exposure to chemicals linked to breast cancer. As California’s the 5th largest economy in the world, these three new laws will ultimately benefit everyone, everywhere!
October 21, 2020 Fewer Than Half of Adults Identify Alcohol as a Cancer Risk Factor Even Though It Is the Third Largest Contributor to Cancer in Women Washington, D.C. — Today, consumer and public health groups submitted a petition making the case for a warning statement on alcoholic beverages to increase consumer awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In a major victory for the movement for safer cosmetics, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, Assembly Bill 2762, into law. This is the nation’s first state-level ban of 24 toxic ingredients, including mercury and formaldehyde, from the beauty and personal care products Californians use every day.
September 30, 2020 Governor Newsom made history today, by signing the Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2020 (SB312-Leyva) into law, making California the first government in the world to require the public disclosure of hazardous fragrance and flavor ingredients.
SACRAMENTO — A bill to ban dangerous chemicals was signed into law yesterday in California. Co-sponsored by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Senate Bill 1044 by Senator Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, will ban the manufacture, sale and use of firefighting foam that contains chemicals known as per-and poly-fluoralkyl substances, or PFAS.
Today, a group of health, environmental, and consumer organizations challenged the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) practice of not accounting for the cumulative health effect of chemicals in the diet when allowing new chemicals in food.
Today, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) released the groundbreaking Paths to Prevention: the California Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan, an action plan offering societal-level policy changes, rather than individual actions, to reduce breast cancer rates.
August 8, 2020 SB 312 exposes chemicals of concerns hiding in the fragrance and flavors used in personal care, beauty and professional salon products — and empowers people with information necessary to protect their health.
We got the wake-up call 4 years ago: my beloved wife Chen was diagnosed with breast cancer. We were shocked: why would a young and healthy yoga therapist, a vegetarian without a family history of cancer, get cancer?
