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  • Terrific Green Tool: Precautionary List From Perkins+Will


    TreeHugger — Authority Authority: 703
    Architects usually keep their proprietary research locked up and closely held. Perkins + Will has done the opposite and made it a public service. Launched at Greenbuild the Precautionary List is a compilation of available data on chemicals and materials that may well become "a catalyst for marketplace change". Jetson ...
    5 days ago

  • Prenatal phthalate exposure de-masculinizes boys’ play?


    iHealthBulletin News — Authority Authority: 135
    URMC.Rochester.edu - A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers’ prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting.The study by the University of ...
    6 days ago

  • Plastics: Phthalates are true ‘gender benders’


    Fire Earth — Authority Authority: 137
    Disappointed Your Last Baby Not a Girl?Don’t Despair! You may still be in luck (!)Did you always want to a have a baby girl and are disappointed because the ultrasound revealed your final attempt to be yet another boy?Phthalates, chemicals found in plastics, are hormone endocrine disruptors. They can alter the brain ...
    1 week ago

  • First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US


    Stupidica — Authority Authority: 175
    More than a decade after Congress directed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out assessments of endocrine disrupting chemicals, the agency has announced the first set of compounds to be screened under its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can ...
    1 week ago

  • Is That a Plastic Bottle Youre Drinking From?


    Nicholas D. Kristof — Authority Authority: 624
    BPA is a common chemical used in plastics and cans used to contain food, yet it seems to have far reaching effects on our health -- particularly for young children. Yet the government has dropped the ball on regulating it.
    3 weeks ago

  • An EPA-funded study gives BPA a clean bill of health


    Shaw's Eco-Logic — Authority Authority: 117
    While we can only speculate as to how many studies of this type will be necessary to remove the scarlet letter from BPA, unjustly stitched on it by the fear entrepreneurs, a new rodent study—funded and conducted by EPA—finds that low-dose exposures of bisphenol A (BPA) showed no effects on the range of ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Denmark Exposes the Risks of Two-Year Olds


    GoodGuide - Home — Authority Authority: 116
    With two young nephews, I’m very concerned about their exposures to chemicals in consumer products and food, since we don’t know how all the chemicals may add up or how they may interact. Based on what science we do have, it’s possible that multiple chemical exposures may lead to much higher risks. With strong ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Gender Bender Chemicals and Boys Turning Into Girls


    Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority Authority: 126
    Heres something rather rotten from the State of Denmark.
    4 weeks ago

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