Poisonous Products

• Pregnant Women

  Teflon Chemical Increases Risk for Pregnant and Other Women

  A major study published in Human Reproduction (January 2009), a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in the United States are at greater risk than previously thought for infertility and reproductive problems as result of exposure to the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid).
• Child Safety

  Children\'s Bath Products Contaminated with Formaldehyde, 1,4-Dioxane

  Chemicals not listed on product labels due to weak regulatory standards.
• Safety

  Government Regulations - Why They Often Don't Protect Consumers from Harmful Chemical Exposure

  The laws protecting citizens from potentially dangerous cleaning and personal-care products remain absent, minimal, or rarely enforced.
• Phthalates

  National Research Council: EPA Should Pursue Cumulative Risk Assessment of Phthalates and Other Chemicals

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council.
• Child Safety

  This is Your Brain on Shoe Polish?

  Or maybe hairspray, air freshener or glue?