Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding protects mothers against all types of breast cancer because it causes protective physiological changes in the breast. The longer one breastfeeds, the greater the protective benefit.
Posts with Type: Fact Sheet
Air Pollution and Breast Cancer Study
Air pollutants come from both traffic and non-traffic sources such as gas wells, hazardous waste sites, landfills, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing plants. In addition to the traffic and particulate pollutants in the air, hazardous chemicals are also in the mix.
Ending Forever Chemicals Act: California SB 903
The California Ending Forever Chemicals Act (SB 903) introduced by Senator Nancy Skinner (D- Berkeley) would ban the use of toxic PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals in consumer products in California except where uses are proven essential.
Reducing Toxics in Packaging: California AB 2761
The California Reducing Toxics in Packaging Act of 2024 (AB 2761 Hart), would remove two very toxic chemicals from plastic packaging.
Plastics
Many people encounter toxic, cancer-causing chemicals through plastics, whether they’re aware of the health risks or not. For example, PVC is a type of plastic made with vinyl chloride, a known human carcinogen.
Johnson and Johnson’s Toxic Talc: A Timeline Toward Victory
This victory is a long time coming and is the result of a global-wide movement of health and justice organizations, government agencies, investigative journalists and concerned people who took action to hold Johnson & Johnson (J&J) accountable for the sale of asbestos-contaminated talcum powder and its links to ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.
California PFAS-Free Cosmetics Act (AB 2771-Friedman)
The PFAS-Free Cosmetic Act (AB 2771-Friedman) bans personal care and beauty products (collectively referred to as “cosmetics”) containing any (known as PFAS) from sale in California. The law prohibits the use of the entire ‘class’ of PFAS chemicals, commonly called “Forever Chemicals” because of their extreme persistence in the environment.
Food Safety Loophole Allows Secret Toxic Chemicals in Our Food
The Generally Recognized As Safe, or GRAS, provision, which permits common chemicals to by-pass FDA safety reviews, has become the procedural superhighway through which chemical manufacturers secretly use chemicals for food packaging and processing without FDA oversight, approval, or knowledge.
Ban PFAS in Textiles (CA AB1817-Ting)
The California Safer Clothes and Textiles Act (AB 1817) would make clothing and textiles safer for all of us by banning the sale of clothes, outdoor gear, and other textiles containing toxic PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals in California.
Cosmetic Hazardous Ingredient Right to Know Act
The Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act would require the disclosure of the secret, unlabeled, and often toxic fragrance and flavor chemical ingredients in our personal care products.