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Lynne Peeples

Are You Eating Flame Retardants With Your Peanut Butter And Jelly?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pbdes, Tsca, Toxic Substances Control Act, Peanut Butter, Fire Retardants, Safe Chemicals Act, Meat, Pcbs, Flame Retardant in Food, Peanut Butter Flame Retardant, Flame Retardant Peanut Butter, Green News

Nothing says "lunch time" to an American kid quite like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Slices of deli meat might be a close second. Unbeknownst t...

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Lynne Peeples

A 'Toxic Treadmill': Dangerous Flame Retardants Remain Widespread In Children's Products

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Chlorinated Tris, Pbdes, Video, Baby Products, California, Fire Safety, Flame Retardants, Fire, New York, Pcbs, Green News

Flip over your couch cushion or desk chair and chances are, you'll see the same tag that is affixed to the bottom of many others: "This article meets ...

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Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Chlorinated Tris, Washington Toxics Coalition, Polyurethane Foam, Tdcpp, Pbdes, The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011, Toxic-Free Kids Act, Healthier Greener Homes, Flame Retardant, Flame Retardant Pbdes, Tris, Fabric Flame Retardant, Flame Retardants, Flame Retardant Material, Flame Retardant Fabrics, Flame Retardant Clothing, Healthy Living News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Think the flame retardant Tris is a thing of the past? Think again. Last week the Washington Toxics Coalition and Safer States released a study that found 80 percent of new baby and children's products tested positive for chlorinated Tris (TDCPP).

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New Study Links Flame Retardants to Lower Birth Weight

Sarah Janssen | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Pbdes, Flame Retardants, Personal Health, PBDEs Birth Weight, Flame Retardants Birth Weight, Green News
Sarah Janssen

The importance of this new study is that it has identified another potential contributor to low birth weight in a population of infants already at risk: those born to low-income populations with poor access to good nutrition and prenatal care.

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California's Flammability Standard Puts Children at Risk

Sarah Janssen | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Hormone Disrupters, Reproduction, Pbdes, Chemical Policy, Tsca, Infertility, Health, Endocrine Disrupters, Home News
Sarah Janssen

A study published this week in the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives is further evidence that California children are the most highly exposed...

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PHOTOS: 7 Toxic Chemicals In Your Seafood That You Don't Know About

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pbdes, Ddt, Chlorinated Dioxins, BP Oil Spill 2010, Fish Safety, Green Living, Gulf Oil Spill, Toxic Chemicals, Arsenic, Toxic Chemicals in Seafood, Melamine, Chemicals in Fish, Fish, Oil, Environment, Our Oceans, Food Safety, Food, Dioxins, BP Oil Spill, Seafood Safety, Slidepollajax, Pcbs, Smarter Ideas, Green News

Since the smell test doesn't really cut it, we decided to investigate the chemicals in seafood that you might not know about. We all know that mercur...

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Up in Smoke: The Reality of Preventing Fire Deaths

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Endocrine Disruptors, Toxic Chemicals, Pbdes, Exposure to Chemicals, Human Health, Fire, Fire Retardants, Chemicals, Healthy Child Healthy World, Healthy Living News
Christopher Gavigan

Generally, I'm a strong advocate for prevention. But what happens when your method of prevention creates its own set of risks? This is increasingly the case with flame retardants.

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Our Flame Retardants -- Ourselves

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Pcbs, Consumers, Ddt, Chemical Pollution, Chemicals, Fire Retardants, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Freons, Pbdes, Green News
Bill Chameides

Introduced as the miracle compounds, halocarbons have revealed themselves as fools good. The flame retardant chemical often leach, leading to lower IQs and depressed fertility.

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