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Generation Green’s Environmental Health Tip of the Week

Feb 12, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips, Uncategorized

With all this talk and media coverage of hazardous ingredients in purses and jewelry, it’s about time that we think about making more informed choices of the consumer products we buy. These days, there are many helpful blogs with safety information and consumer...

Book Review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck

Feb 2, 2010Peter SullivanChildren's Health, Food, Tips

by Guest Blogger Peter Sullivan Toxins are a common and widespread problem that is even more inconvenient and has even more personal impact than global warming. The topic leaves most people feeling a mix of overwhelm, anger and hopelessness. But as you may have...

Hamburger Helper? Slime, Ammonia and Cow Shit

Feb 1, 2010Charles MargulisFood

In our ongoing series “There’s WHAT in My Food?”, we submit for your reading pleasure (though probably not while you’re eating) our comments on a stunning New York Times investigation that exposed how an ammonia-treated beef filler used in 50% of the nation’s ground...

Tell EPA: No Secret Ingredients in Pesticides

Jan 25, 2010Center for Environmental HealthChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, Laws & Regulations

Inert ingredients are the thousands of chemicals that the pesticide industry is allowed to keep secret. Some of these chemicals are anything but inert: they can cause cancer, genetic damage, reproductive harm, and other serious health problems. EPA recently announced...

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Produce Stickers: How NOT to Spot GMO Food

Jan 22, 2010Charles MargulisFood

Are you concerned about the known and unknown health effects of eating genetically engineered (GMO) foods, such as new food allergies and an increased risk of antibiotic resistance, among others? Do you worry that, because these foods are engineered to withstand...

John Wayne, Chemical Cowboys Want You to Keep Eating Hormones

Dec 28, 2009Charles MargulisFood

Last week, we wrote about the poultry industry supersizing chickens with arsenic-based drugs. Today, there’s news about cows on performance enhancing drugs of their own. First, the back story: In 1971, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the first...

Supersizing Your Chicken, with Arsenic

Dec 22, 2009Charles MargulisFood

Earlier this month, CEH joined a legal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calling on the agency to ban poultry feed additives containing arsenic, a carcinogen associated with other serious health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, and...

Avoiding Fleas and Bug Bombs: Keeping Pesky Pests Away Without Chemicals

Dec 18, 2009Ali Geering-KlineFood

A few years back, a friend of mine accidentally applied a dog-formulated flea pesticide on her cat. The next day she found her cat dead. The cat’s veterinarian determined that the only feasible reason for the cat’s death was the exposure to the more highly...

Tips for a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving

Nov 23, 2009Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Food, Tips, Uncategorized

Thanksgiving: it’s supposed to be about enjoying homemade meals and family around the dinner table. But with constant the rush of our daily lives, we inevitably run out of time in our preparations for the big meal. With all the commercial products on the market...

Is There Life on Mars?

Oct 26, 2009Sean SullivanFood

Two weeks ago we asked you to join us in urging multinational candy conglomerates Hershey’s and Mars to stop using sugar made from untested sugar beets that are genetically engineered to withstand megadoses of pesticides. We were encouraged to see thousands of CEH...