Household chemicals possibly causing cancers, fertility problems.
Posted May 15th, 2012
The significant growth in many human diseases and disorders in recent decades is connected to the rising levels of exposure to mixtures of some chemicals in widespread use, according to a review of recent literature commissioned by the European Environment Agency.Research adds to BPA fear of cancer.
Posted May 15th, 2012
New findings suggests a link between breast cancer risk and prenatal exposure to bisphenol A, or BPA, giving more ammunition to groups that want to ban the substance, which is found in baby bottles, food containers and numerous other consumer products.Household chemicals’ ‘cocktail effect’ raises cancer concerns for watchdog.
Posted May 15th, 2012
Europe's environmental watchdog, the European Environment Agency, has warned that products containing endocrine disrupting chemicals should be treated with caution until their true effects are better known.Toxic roulette.
Posted May 10th, 2012
Chicago Tribune
May 10, 2012
Michael Hawthorne
Firemaster 550, touted as safe, is the latest in a long line of flame retardants allowed onto the market without thorough study of health risks. By the early 2000s, the flame retardant known as penta had become a villain.
Packed by the pound into couches and other furniture, the chemical was turning up in the blood of babies and in breast milk around the world. The European Union voted to ban penta after researchers linked it to developmental and neurological problems in children, and manufacturers pulled it from the market.
Chemical industry lobbyists keep stronger oversight plan at bay.
Posted May 10th, 2012
Chicago Tribune
May 10, 2012
Michael Hawthorne
With efforts to revamp the nation’s chemical safety law stalled in Congress, the Obama administration’s top environmental regulator vowed three years ago to act on her own to beef up the oversight of toxic substances.
But key parts of the initiative by Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are still bottled up in an obscure White House office under intense pressure from industry lobbyists to back off.
US scientist: ‘Many routes of exposure’ to endocrine disruptors.
Posted May 10th, 2012
Shanna H. Swan, a renowned scientist specialising in reproductive medicine, has warned about the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals known as phthalates which can end up in food via pesticides or plastics. In an interview with EurActiv, she calls on regulators to better protect consumers against those "hidden chemicals".Can heavy metal in foods, cosmetics spur breast cancer spread?
Posted April 26th, 2012
Prolonged exposure to low levels of the heavy metal cadmium may fuel the growth of some breast cancer cells and encourage them to spread, preliminary research indicates.Womens’ chemical exposure during pregnancy promotes obesity in daughters.
Posted April 26th, 2012
Pre-birth exposures to low doses of a compound-- PFOA -- that has been widely found in fast food packaging and household products, may increase body weight in women but not men, a new study finds.FDA Issues draft guidances on nanotechnology risks.
Posted April 24th, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration issued two draft guidances April 20 on the assessment of the effects of nanotechnology on food and cosmetics safety.Toxic polishes found in salons.
Posted April 24th, 2012
Some nail polishes commonly found in salons and advertised as free of chemicals actually have high levels of agents known to cause birth defects, according to California chemical regulators.
