PFAS Contaminated Sewage Sludge Fertilizers Can Cause Cancer and Other Diseases – US EPA
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International Experts Call for Urgent Action to Protect Children’s Health from Harmful Chemicals
EU Glyphosate Approval Reaches European Court of Justice
Expert Groups Sue US FDA to Remove Hormone Hacking Chemicals from Food Packaging
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Manufactured chemicals pose a real danger to children’s health, due to inadequate legal controls, said leading international health experts at the launch of the Institute for Preventive Health (IPH) on Tuesday. Exposure to manufactured synthetic chemicals has worsened the levels of chronic disease and developmental...
A group of health advocates, including Center for Food Safety, and represented by Earthjustice sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in late December to force the agency to reevaluate its decades-old authorizations for the use of certain phthalates in food packaging and food production materials. Phthalates are a group of hormone-disrupting chemicals that leach into food from these food-contact...
The EPA recently released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic “forever chemicals” in sewage sludge applied to farmland can cause cancer and other diseases in people who live near farm fields where the sludge is applied, or consume tainted milk, beef or other foods from these farms. The chemicals – per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – contaminate wastewater...
