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. [...]
Archive for the ‘Chemicals’ Category
27 Jan
Write your representatives
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 [...]
16 Jan
Healthy Child, Healthy World
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. [...]
26 Dec
The Body Toxic
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, [...]
21 Dec
Protecting our children from the chemicals in their environment
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 [...]
16 Dec
Feeding Baby Green
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 [...]
5 Dec
Babies exposed to BPA before they’re born
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 [...]
13 Nov
Muir Glen tomato cans lined with BPA
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 [...]
1 Sep
Our SIGG replacement
Just over a week ago, I found out that SIGG water bottles are lined with BPA (at least the older ones are, which were mostly what we had). I thought about sending my older ones back to BPA and requesting gift certificates for new ones, which I heard SIGG was doing, but I honestly was [...]
15 Apr
Kid Safe Chemical Act
Consider signing this declaration in support of the Kid Safe Chemical Act. The Envrionmental Working Group is trying to get 500,000 signatures. For more info on the Act, open this pdf.
