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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...
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...
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, reduce your exposure to endocrine disruptors
Not so sweet: Study shows artificial sweeteners’ health harms
Pregnant with PFAS: The threat of ‘forever chemicals’ in cord blood
EWG VERIFIED™ Baby Diapers: Filling the gap when regulators fail to protect our most vulnerable
European regulators have rejected a proposal to restrict a handful of harmful chemicals in baby diapers, yet again showing basic government failures abroad and in the U.S. to protect our most...
Survey: Safer baby diapers are more important than ever
To clean up the baby diapers available in the marketplace, EWG surveyed more than 1,800 parents and caregivers to better understand what they know about diapers and what they want from these products.
Honeywell moves to introduce more PFAS into your home
While the PFAS-contamination crisis threatens U.S. public health and the environment, the North Carolina–based company Honeywell has begun marketing new uses for its trademarked “forever chemicals,”...
Serve up healthy mornings at home with EWG’s top organic cereal choices
Kids and plant-based proteins: Getting your children on board
What are endocrine disruptors?
Keep your kids safer in the sun this Fourth of July
Tampon shortage: Beware ‘forever chemicals’ in backup options
Are food and consumer product chemicals contributing to our obesity crisis?
Produce industry picks wrong side by fighting EPA ban of brain-damaging pesticide
EWG applauds Senate bill to close food chemical safety loopholes
Environmental injustice: Passing on the costs of ‘forever chemicals’ cleanup
FDA food safety inspections plummet, despite congressional mandate
Staying healthy on Memorial Day weekend and beyond
It’s almost Memorial Day, when many people will enjoy a holiday weekend packed with backyard barbecues, picnics and fun in the sun. When you’re stepping out over the long weekend, and for the rest of...
Four infant formula questions for Commissioner Califf
Several factors have contributed to the infant formula crisis we are witnessing now and, though the operations at Abbott Nutrition warrant scrutiny, we must look at how failures at the Food and Drug...