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Latest scoop on flame retardant chemicals

Who knew that toxic flame retardants would be making headlines the way they are these days? There’s been so much new scientific research breaking on this class of chemicals and regulatory steps in the works, we thought it would be nice to summarize all that’s taken place in the last few weeks.

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Toxics Turn Up in Fresh Food

Phthalates are insidious chemicals that are seemingly turning up everywhere. Research increasingly shows they can interfere with the production or activity of hormones in the human endocrine system. New research from the University of Texas School of Public Health says chemicals the industry adds to many consumer products isn’t just getting into some of our food, […]

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International community kicks it up a notch

By Baskut Tuncak, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Recently, the global community kicked it up a notch by issuing a simple statement on hormone disrupting chemicals during negotiations on a process intended to achieve the sound management of chemicals globally by 2020 (called “SAICM”).  Despite seeming like an innocuous statement, it lays the groundwork […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: BPA, Canada, EDCs, endocrine disrupting chemicals, hormone disrupting chemicals, international action, phthalates, SAICM, TSCA reform

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