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Playing Ball Just Got a Little Safer

Jul 16, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Thanks to research and legal action by the Center for Environmental Health, millions of children who play on fields of artificial turf will no longer be exposed to potentially hazardous levels of lead. A 2008 CEH expose showing high levels of lead in many varieties of...

CEH Action Prompts Nationwide Jewelry Recall

Jul 13, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Following an investigation and legal action earlier this year by the Center for Environmental Health, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Tween Brands today announced a recall of 19 styles of children’s metal necklaces, bracelets and earrings due to high...

CEH Wins the SF Business Times’ Green Business Award

Jun 14, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action, Uncategorized

“In its mission to create a safer environment, the Center for Environmental Health uses both carrots and sticks”, Michele Chandler wrote in last week’s San Francisco Business Times. This year, CEH is proud to join the prestigious list of the San Francisco Business...

Where’s Wal-Mart? Still Selling Lead-Tainted Purses, That’s Where!

Jun 3, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action

Last year, the Center for Environmental Health found high levels of lead in hundreds of handbags, purses, wallets and other accessories purchased from dozens of leading retailers. This week, we announced our legal settlement with more than forty major companies,...

Listen to CEH Executive Director Michael Green on Your Call, KALW Radio

May 27, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, Food, General Insights, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

“The reason that the government has focused so much on cure and so little on prevention is because there’s a buck to be made”, Michael Green said on today’s Your Call, KALW Radio program. The topic of today’s Your Call looks at the connections between the parallel...

Walmart Knew About Cadmium In Its Jewelry

May 20, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action

The Center for Environmental Health has filed legal notice against Wal-Mart for selling cadmium-tainted jewelry. Independent testing commissioned by the nonprofit found that a pendant on a Miley Cyrus/Max Azria necklace contained high levels of cadmium, in violation...

Take Action to Protect Kids from Toxic Jewelry

Apr 22, 2010Caroline CoxChildren's Health, Legal Action

Urge your Senator to support SB 929 to ban cadmium in jewelry.

Kiss Me, I’m Infertile! A St. Patrick’s Day Surprise You Don’t Want to Hear

Mar 10, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, General Insights, Legal Action, Tips

As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, our thoughts turn to parades, green beer, and of course, infertility. Infertility? Apparently that’s what some jewelry makers want us to think about when we see a St. Patrick’s Day pendant on a necklace for young girls. Because the St....

At Target this Valentine’s Day: L is for Lead

Feb 9, 2010Charles MargulisChildren's Health, Legal Action, Tips

A Valentine’s Day stuffed bear sounds like a great gift for the kids in your life. But at Target, don’t get too close to the bear! After all the public attention to lead-tainted children’s products, you might think that major companies like Target would have systems...

Aeropostale Bans Cadmium-Tainted Products from its Stores!

Feb 5, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Laws & Regulations, Legal Action

Cadmium – if you slept through high school chemistry, you may have never heard of it. But cadmium is all over the news suddenly, with AP reporting that two national retailers are pulling jewelry items contaminated with the carcinogenic crap. If you’re just tuning in,...