Recent Posts Tagged With chemicals

• Recall of the Week: Tylenol, other popular over-the-counter drugs due to musty smell

  Posted on Sunday January 17th, 2010 at 10:19 pm in health companies Government safety chemicals

  Several hundred batches of over-the-counter drugs are being recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC Inc. The drugs include Children’s Motrin, Children’s Tylenol, Benadryl, Extrastrength Tylenol, Motrin IB, Regular Strength...

• Federal law allows companies to keep secrets about harmful chemicals

  Posted on Thursday January 7th, 2010 at 10:50 pm in toys companies Government chemicals consumers

  It's one of huge issues in consumer protection today – the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products. Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States – from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners – nearly 20 p...

• Preventing breast cancer: 20 risk factors

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 09:39 pm in politics education science health women

  October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Breast Cancer Fund is an organization that works to identify – and advocate for elimination of – the environmental and other preventable causes of breast cancer. It says: Research has taug...

• Do chemicals and radiation cause breast cancer?

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 11:20 pm in health women environment Government research

    Growing up on apple farms after World War II where pesticides were sprayed liberally on everything, I began to wonder at an early age about the dangers of the wide use of chemicals. As a consumer journalist, I’ve interviewed Devra Lee Davis...

• Federal agency’s effort to revamp the nation’s chemical management program laudable, but doesn’t go far enough

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 08:46 pm in politics science health environment companies

    With cancer rates skyrocketing and continual questions about how chemicals affect the health of consumers, the Obama Administration has announced its goals for reforming of this country’s chemical management law, the 1976 Toxic Substances C...