Publications
Books
Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home
A user-friendly and practical lifestyle guide about how to reduce toxic exposure in our homes, our new book is a perfect resource of credible and easy steps to creating a healthier environment and lifestyle for all stages of parenting. It’s sure to be a hit on Earth Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and everyday - with information on pregnancy, cleaning, foods, toys, and even green baby showers, healthier air fresheners, gardening, beauty care, and much more!
Besides the up-to-date health content, what sets this book apart are the long list of health experts and notable parents contributing their essay. These contributing "voices" and stories are selectively added to the book to build on the approachable and fresh tone.
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Reports
90 Tips For 90 Days
Last year we kicked off our new blog with our 90 Tips For 90 Days. These tips will help you to make your home and environment safer and healthier for you and your children.
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Volatile Vinyl: The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell (June, 2008)
New laboratory tests reveal the familiar “new shower curtain smell” may be toxic to our health. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic shower curtains purchased at Bed Bath & Beyond, Kmart, Sears,
Target, and Wal-Mart all contain avoidable toxic chemicals including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phthalates, organotins and metals.
The release of this report is sponsored by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice’s (CHEJ) PVC Campaign and the Work Group for Safe Markets.
Plactics that May Be Harmful to Children and Reproductive Health (June 2008)
Written by Environment & Human Health, Inc.
The plastics problem is growing in scale and complexity due to a collision of factors, including government neglect of the importance of endocrine disruption; the explosive growth of the U.S. and international plastics industry; the absence of any plastic ingredient and source labeling requirements; nearly complete recycling failure for PVC and polycarbonate plastics; environmental contamination of air, water, soils, oceans, fish and wildlife; nearly universal human exposure to BPA and DEHP from food and beverages in high income nations; the dependence of the plastics industry on petroleum; and government failure to require health and environmental testing prior to chemical production, sale, and disposal. Collectively, these pose a serious challenge to the environment and human health.
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Killer Cribs (May 2008)
Protecting Infants and Children from Toxic Exposures
Written by Sara Schedler with contributions from Russell Long Ph.D., Arlene Blum Ph.D., Jen Holzer, Bob Badgley, Bart Broome and Mary Brune.
This report demonstrates that commonly used baby and children’s products, and upholstered household furniture, contain dangerous levels of toxic chemicals called halogenated fire retardants.
In hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and animal experiments, halogenated fire retardants have been linked to serious health disorders such as cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, neurological and reproductive dysfunction and learning disabilities such as ADHD, mental retardation, and hyperactivity. Human testing suggests that most Americans now have halogenated fire retardants in their bodies, with babies and children showing the highest levels.
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Killer Couches (March 2008)
Protecting Infant and Children from Toxic Exposure
Written by Sara Schedler
New data collected by Friends of the Earth demonstrates that a high percentage of California’s furniture contains toxic chemicals called halogenated fire retardants.* In hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and animal experiments, halogenated fire retardants have been linked to serious health disorders such as cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, neurological and reproductive dysfunction and learning disabilities such as ADHD, mental retardation, and hyperactivity. Today, Californians who undergo testing are finding halogenated fire retardants stored in their bodies at increasing rates, with babies and children showing the highest levels.
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Baby’s Toxic Bottles (February 2008)
Written by WORK GROUP FOR SAFE MARKETS
The test results of this study indicates that the United States’ current lack of regulation of bisphenol A exposes infants and children to potentially dangerous levels of this unnecessary toxic chemical. The study confirms the findings of the 2007 Environment California study that tested Avent, Dr. Brown’s, Evenflo, Gerber and Playtex baby bottles. All five brands of the popular polycarbonate bottles tested in Environment California’s study leached bisphenol A the range of 5–10 ppb.3 This report is the first dual-nation study to measure BPA leaching from baby bottles purchased from U.S. and Canadian retailers.
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Face to Face with Toy Safety (February 2008)
Understanding an Unexpected Threat.
Written by Charles W. Schmidt
Published by Environmental Health Perspectives
VOLUME 116 | NUMBER 2 | February 2008
Until March 2007, thousands of kids around the country could be found playing with toy trucks, helicopters, and soldiers sold under the Elite Operations brand name. The toys were fun, and they looked great with their thick coat of glossy paint. Trouble was, that paint was loaded with 5,000 ppm lead, a potent developmental neurotoxicant with no known safe exposure level.
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Household Hazards (July 2007)
Potential Hazards of Home Cleaning Products
Written by Alexandra Gorman
A look at the potential hazards of chemicals in household cleaning products and their association with asthma and reproductive harm.
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Toxic Baby Bottles (2007)
Scientific study finds leaching chemicals in clear plastic baby bottles
Written by Rachel L. Gibson
ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER
This study analyzes the extent to which five popular brands of baby bottles leach bisphenol A, a developmental, neural, and reproductive toxicant, into liquids coming into contact with them.
They found that all five brands leach bisphenol A at dangerous levels found to cause harm in numerous laboratory animal studies.
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Bad Chemistry (Winter 2006)
Hundreds of man-made chemicals - in our air, our water, and our food - could be damaging the most basic building blocks of human development.
Written by Gay Daly
NRDC On Earth
A large, uncontrolled scientific experiment has been in progress for the last 60 years, and the questions now is: Can we figure out what the results are? And if those results show we are in danger, what we can do about it at this late date?
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Recipe for Change (2006)
One Lunch Lady's Fight for Our Children's Future
Written by Chef Ann Cooper
ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS
Read Ann Cooper's Journey from "white tablecloth" celeberty chef, never cooking for kids nor even knowing what they ate, to an unlikely advocate for childhood nuturition.
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The Right Start: The Need to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals from Baby Products (October 2005)
BY ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER
A child’s first few years are an exciting time for parents who hope, if for nothing else, that their child starts his or her life happy and healthy. Unfortunately, not all products marketed for children and babies are completely safe for their use. Many contain toxic chemicals that may have detrimental health impacts for children exposed during critical stages of development.
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Fathers for Organic (2005)
Written by Alan Greene, M.D.
ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS
Dr Greene's personal experience as a father and a husband adding to his understanding as a physician and being for organic foods.
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Growing Up Toxic (June 2004)
Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease
Written by: Travis Madsen, Yana Kucher, Teri Olle
ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER
This study focuses on the most recent science surrounding several emerging chemical hazards—a growing body of evidence showing that chemicals found in the home and in common consumer products may hinder normal development.
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Body Of Evidence (February 2004)
New Science in the Debate Over Toxic Flame Retardants and Our Health
Written by: Yana Kucher and Meghan Purvis
U.S. PIRG Education Fund and ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER
New evidence indicates that the chemical flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca) may threaten the health of Americans.
Manufacturers of common household products add Deca to plastics or fabrics to make them resist the spread of fire. A growing body of evidence shows that exposure to Deca may cause adverse health effects in developing children, including damage to the nervous system and impaired motor skills.
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The Organic Manifesto of a Biologist Mother (2003)
Written by Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
ORGANIC VALLEY FAMILY OF FARMS
From the life of a gypsy biologist to an environmental writer with two kids, Sandra Steingraber writes on the benefits of being organic.
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The State of Children’s Health and Environment (February 2002)
Written by John Wargo, PhD, Professor at Yale University and Healthy Child Healthy World - Science Advisory Board Member
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Almost every year, U.S. officials ban several chemicals to better protect health or environmental quality, while several thousand new chemicals are introduced to international commerce. There is little if any understanding of the potential health threats of these new chemicals.
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