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Quibble with Kibbles: ‘Forever chemicals’ in pet food packaging add to perils at home

The toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS create health hazards at home, since they’re used in everyday items like cookware and cosmetics – and new EWG research finds some popular pet food packaging...
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Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

New baby textile product tests show concerning levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’

You may have noticed an uptick in media reports detailing new discoveries in various consumer products of the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS. They’re highly toxic and pervasive – and found in...
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Personal Care Products
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Asbestos
PFAS Chemicals

Frightful ingredients hiding in Halloween face paint

With Halloween around the corner, many kids will use face paint as the perfect finishing touch for their costumes. It’s a popular alternative to costume masks, which can obscure children’s vision on...

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Personal Care Products
Sunscreen
Toxic Chemicals

Lacking safety data, the FDA should act to ban oxybenzone in sunscreens

Time’s up, sunscreen industry. Last month, the clock ran out on the sunscreen industry to prove to the Food and Drug Administration that oxybenzone, a common ingredient in sunscreen, is both safe and...

Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Subsidies
Regional Issues
Midwest

Major USDA conservation program must change to prioritize climate stewardship

The federal Conservation Stewardship Program, or CSP, spends little of its billions in funding on practices and enhancements that reduce farming’s greenhouse gas emissions. But Congress could reform...
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Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Frightening food: The scary additives lurking in Halloween candy

Halloween is just days away, when children will dress up as ghosts, zombies and other scary creatures while they trick-or-treat.
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Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Halloween horror led to stricter food safety law – it’s time for another update

In the fall of 1950, a Halloween nightmare was unfolding. There was something in the candy and it was making kids sick. Across the country, dozens of children were suffering from severe diarrhea and...
Skeleton hand reaching for candy
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals

Personal care product chemicals banned in Europe but still found in U.S.

Toxic chemicals prohibited from personal care products in Europe because of their potential health and environmental harms continue to be used in U.S. hair dyes and other items, a new EWG analysis has...
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

To dye for: Chemical that makes sweet treats look irresistible linked to health risks

Synthetic food dyes that have been used for over a century to make snack cakes like Entenmann’s Little Bites Party Cake, and candies like Laffy Taffy and Brach’s Candy Corn, look brighter and more...
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Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals

New study links chemicals in hair straighteners to uterine cancer

Women who often use chemical hair straighteners may be twice as likely to develop uterine cancer as those who never touch the treatments, a new study finds.
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Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Thousands of children’s sweets STILL contain additive unsafe for human consumption

Skittles, Starburst and thousands of other sweet treats marketed to children contain titanium dioxide – an additive European food safety regulators say is no longer safe for human consumption. Yet the...
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Food & Water
Food
Water
Personal Care Products
Sunscreen
Household & Consumer Products
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Lead
Pesticides

How to protect kids during the EPA’s Children’s Health Month

The Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating national Children’s Health Month, with tips for shielding kids from potential health harms caused by lead contamination, pesticides on produce and...

Farming & Agriculture
Climate & Agriculture
Conservation
Subsidies

How to make climate change a priority in the next farm bill

Next year, Congress will renew the farm bill, which provides funding to our farmers and ranchers. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, annual spending by the Department of Agriculture on farm...

Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Disparities in exposure to chemicals with links to weight gain

In addition to changes that make our lives more sedentary and perhaps also shifts in genetic makeup, the sharp increase in obesity and overweight we are seeing may be caused by far more exposure to...

Feet on scale
Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Flawed WHO report on ‘forever chemicals’ fails human health, EWG scientists find

A draft World Health Organization analysis of the two most notorious “forever chemicals” disregards hundreds of health risk studies, claiming there are too many uncertainties to calculate a safe...
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Food & Water
Food
Personal Care Products
Cosmetics
Sunscreen
Household & Consumer Products
Cleaning Supplies
Family Health
Reproductive Health
Toxic Chemicals

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors

For almost four decades, the U.S. has recognized October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month to spotlight the disease and funding for research on breast cancer diagnoses, treatments and prevention.
Food & Water
Food
Family Health
Children’s Health
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Not so sweet: Study shows artificial sweeteners’ health harms

Whether it’s yogurt, bread, soda or thousands of other widely consumed products, your sweet treat might lead to a not-so-sweet health problem. If the label says “reduced sugar,” it could contain...
Soda fountain
Food & Water
Food
Toxic Chemicals
Food Chemicals

Turn over a new leaf: Ditch your salad's harmful chemicals with healthier dressings

Salad is the original health food, full of vitamins and nutrients and ideal for a healthier lifestyle. Just beware of dressings containing chemicals that could do more harm than good.
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Food & Water
Water
Toxic Chemicals
PFAS Chemicals

Dow, 3M and others likely exploit loophole to avoid reporting ‘forever chemicals’ releases

At least five facilities around the U.S. operated by Dow Chemical, 3M and other companies are using very large amounts of the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS but are likely using a regulatory...
Farming & Agriculture
Farm Pollution
Toxic Algae

Dogs still not safe from toxic algae blooms in 2022

EWG’s annual tracking of algae bloom news reports finds more than 400 stories already this year, and further proof that toxic algae can be deadly for dogs.
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