We have been in need of a new crib mattress. While we are expecting our third baby (and you’d think we already had a crib mattress), we have decided to keep our 2 year old on it in his crib for now. We bought a second hand crib from a neighbor but didn’t want to [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Organic, PBDEs on February 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Environmental Working Group wants to collect 75,000 signatures to show that Americans support the Kid Safe Chemical Act. We don’t think that current chemical legislation is adequate (see my letter) and believe that all chemicals should demonstrate safety before they can be sold. The EWG has already gotten 40,000 signatures in one week. Consider [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Environment on February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
This is what my congresswoman wrote in response to the letter I sent her:
Thank you for contacting me about your concern with the regulation of toxic chemicals. I appreciate the opportunity to learn your views and share mine.
I am concerned with the number of chemicals used in commerce today without sufficient toxicity testing. The Centers [...]
Filed under: Chemicals on February 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was encouraged by the book The Body Toxic to write my representatives in government regarding my concerns about the lack of chemical regulation. It took me less than an hour to craft my letter and send it. All my senators and congresswomen have websites that make sending communications a piece of cake. If you’re [...]
Filed under: Chemicals on January 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
HealthyChild.org is a great online resource for parents. It’s the website for an organization called Healthy Child, Healthy World and on it you can find great information about creating a greener, safer home and environment for your child. In 2008, the CEO and executive director of the nonprofit wrote a book: Healthy Child, Healthy World. [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children on January 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
As you can probably tell, I’ve been reading a lot lately. I just finally have the time to tackle some subjects I’ve always wanted to read more about. One of those topics I’m very passionate about is toxic chemicals in our environment and how to best avoid them. If that is interesting to you too, [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Environment, PBDEs, Perflourinated chemicals, Phthalates on December 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Protecting my children from the chemicals and toxins in their environment is the passion that caused me to launch this blog 2.5 years ago. After researching BPA and phthalates and working hard to eliminate them from our home, I decided to start this blog to share what I had learned. Now that it is almost [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Lead, PBDEs, Phthalates on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
I have recommended the book Raising Baby Green on this blog, and now the author, pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, has recently released another similar book called Feeding Baby Green. Even if you’re not pregnant or don’t have babies, this is a fascinating book on food and feeding children. Dr. Greene theorizes that the reason so [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Food and Nutrition, Genetic Modification on December 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Several studies (see video) have found that toxic substances, many of which have been banned for decades, can be found in our bodies. Most saddening to me is that many of these subtances have been found in the blood of umbilical cords of pregnant women, meaning that children are exposed to harmful chemicals before they’re [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Children on December 5th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A friend of my mother wrote Muir Glen lately asking “why aren’t your tomatoes in jars since cans have BPA, which is detrimental to our health, in the lining?”
This was their response:
Dear Valued Consumer,
Thank you for contacting Muir Glen regarding bisphenol-A in food packaging. Bisphenol-A is a critical component of protective coatings used with [...]
Filed under: BPA, Chemicals, Food and Nutrition on November 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »