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Protect Yourself & Your Family From Pesticides: What You Need to Know

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By Rachel Sarnoff of mommygreenest.com

What Parents Need to Know About Pesticides: A Five-Minute Guide to Protect Your Kids for Life, from MommyGreenest.com

In 2012, PANNA (the Pesticide Action Network North America) called for a social media day of action to hold the “Big 6” pesticide corporations — Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, Dow and DuPont — accountable for harming our health. Together, these companies control the global seed, pesticide and agricultural biotechnology markets.

Ever since I heard Healthy Child Healthy World co-founder Nancy Chuda’s story of losing her five-year-old daughter Colette to cancer caused by pesticide exposure, my mission has been to build awareness of this issue. Continue reading →

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FDA Rejects BPA Ban in Packaging

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By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World

Late in the day last Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would not place on ban on BPA in packaging because there wasn’t enough scientific evidence that it harmed humans. We wonder whether they’ve missed the volumes of studies finding BPA associated with some cancers, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive disorders.

If you’re unclear on exactly what it is, BPA is short for bisphenol A. It is an industrial chemical that has been used to make certain plastics and resins since the 1960s.

Manufacturers are moving away from the chemical even without FDA action. Last month, Healthy Child Healthy World and the Breast Cancer Fund announced that Campbell’s Soup was moving away from BPA in its cans, in part due to dropping consumer demand and public campaigns to eliminate BPA from foods targeted at kids. Continue reading →

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How ‘Clean’ Are Your Cleaning Products?

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By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World

Cleaning used to be a simple thing. You learned what to use from your parents and bought the same products when you moved into your own house. But new reports just emerging may make you rethink choosing some of those brands.

In March, a report conducted by the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, MA and published in the online Environmental Health Perspectives Journal revealed chemicals linked to asthma and hormone disruption in 200 common household products.

Personal care products such as soaps and lotions, household cleaners, sunscreens, air fresheners, vinyl shower curtains and pillow protectors—even kitty litter—were found to contain chemicals such as phthalates (linked to reproductive abnormalities and asthma) and parabens (linked to hormone disruption and associated with breast cancer), among others. Continue reading →

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