Safer Holiday Meals Guide
Seven Safer Holiday Meal Tips for minimizing your exposure to health-harming and environment-harming toxic chemicals that can get into your celebratory meal – from store packaging to the utensils on the table.
Posts with Author: Emily Reuman
Non-Toxic Holiday Gift Guide 2022
Shop with confidence that your holiday gifts are good for you, our planet and those you love! Our partners in prevention are offering socially responsible gift ideas that share our commitment to protecting the health of all people and our planet.
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
This Native American Heritage Month, learn more about the rich history and cultures of the first Americans, whose voices and contributions are all too often unheard, unseen, and unacknowledged.
Get Out and Vote! For your Health
Breast cancer affects people across the political spectrum. That’s because chemicals are equal opportunity offenders, exposing people on both sides of the aisle to an increased risk of breast cancer and other diseases that are on the rise. Still, more elected officials need to hear from people in their districts that getting chemicals linked to breast and other cancers out of everyday products, and out of our air, water, and industry altogether, matters!
Groups petition FDA to restrict Bisphenol A in food packaging
January 27, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C.—A coalition of physicians, scientists, and public health and environmental organizations today sent a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calling on the agency to rescind its approvals for bisphenol A (BPA) in adhesives and coatings and set strict limits on its use in plastics that contact food.
Breast Cancer Prevention Month Gift Guide 2022
This Breast Cancer Prevention Month, our partners in prevention are bringing you clean products that value YOU and the environment.
Newsom Signs Bill Eliminating PFAS in Clothes into Law
SACRAMENTO—In a win for current and future public health in California, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law AB 1817, the Safer Clothes and Textiles Act, which will curb the flow of toxic PFAS chemicals into Californians’ clothes, bodies, and environments. AB 1817 eliminates unnecessary uses of PFAS in clothes and textiles, which can lead to pollution at each stage of production, use, laundering, and disposal, making California the first state to limit PFAS in clothing and textiles.
Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” banned from cosmetics in California
9/30/2022 SACRAMENTO—Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that bans intentionally added toxic PFAS chemicals (known as “forever chemicals”) from cosmetics sold in California.
VICTORY: Johnson & Johnson to Discontinue Talc-Based Baby Powder Globally
While continuing to deny any wrong-doing and defending the safety of their product, Johnson and Johnson announces it will start using cornstarch, not talc, in all the baby powder it sells around the world.
Create Your Own At-Home Non-Toxic Hand Soap
A DIY hand soap recipe for people who want to have more control over what ingredients they interact with. The DIY hand soap below can be whipped up with just a few simple, non-toxic ingredients, and is just as effective as store-bought options.