• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

A national effort to protect families from toxic chemicals.

  • Get Involved
  • Our Work
    • News
    • Public Policy
    • Mind the Store
    • Successes
  • Get the Facts
  • About
  • Donate

link

breast cancer awareness

New study finds 102 common chemicals linked to breast cancer

A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives identified seventeen types of chemicals, 102 in total, linked to breast cancer. The study spearheaded by the scientists at the Silent Spring Institute, found areas in which policy and personal steps are a major opportunity for breast cancer prevention. As Silent Spring put it, “Every woman in America has […]

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: benzene, breast cancer, breast cancer prevention, cancer, cancer prevention, chemicals, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, flame retardants, health, health science, link, New study finds 102 common chemicals linked to breast cancer, phthalates, policy, products, Report, research, retailers, safer, saferchemicals, silent spring institute, state, store, studies, styrene, toxic, toxic chemicals

child lost in thought

30% increase in Autism rates brings urgency to chemical reform

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced their new autism spectrum disorder prevalence figures, and they are alarming. An estimated 1 in 68 children has an ASD.[1] The likelihood that a child will be diagnosed with the disorder has increased 30% in the last two years. This increase follows a consistent (if somewhat […]

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: 30% increase in Autism rates brings urgency to chemical reform, asthma, autism, awareness, bill, chemicals, children, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, health, industry, light it up blue, link, month, new, phthalates, policy, products, rates, retailers, safer, saferchemicals, state, stats, store, toxic, toxic chemicals

Primary Sidebar

person in front of streaming TV

Best Buy: Protect Americans from toxic plastic chemicals banned in European TVs

Take Action

Subscribe to Posts

Get our latest posts delivered to your inbox.

Get the Facts

These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
Other Chemicals »

Footer

Contact Us

641 S St NW, 3rd Flr
Washington, DC 20001
Email

Search

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

© 2019 Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families — All rights reserved.

  • About Us
  • Privacy policy
  • Disclaimer
  • Feed