Onset of kids' food allergies linked to infant wipes

>STATEMENT - As a public health agency, there is no greater impact we can have to improve the health of our nation than to significantly reduce the rate of tobacco-related disease and death. Through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s comprehensive framework for regulating nicotine and tobacco, we’re developing policies tha...

Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency head whose anti-regulation crusade couldn’t save his job from his repeated ethics scandals, picked out an ornate desk for an expensive office remodel last year that concerned his staff because it contained toxic Formaldehyde.Prutt’s underlings sought to protect him from effects of ...

Many parents and teachers shopping for their students’ 2018-19 school supplies look for a non-toxic “AP” certified label on the products, but many products don’t have that label, so it’s unclear if they’re safe or not. U.S. PIRG Education Fund is releasing a guide that warns consumers about some product...

The Netherlands has prepared a proposal to support a possible restriction to address the risks from eight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) found in granules and mulches used in synthetic turf pitches, or in loose forms at playgrounds and other sports facilities.The proposal, prepared by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the ...

EFSA published in July its assessment of four recent scientific studies on Titanium Dioxide. This is based on a  request from the European Commission on 22 March 2018 to assess four studies (Heringa et al., 2016; Bettini et al., 2017; Guo et al., 2017; Proquin et al., 2017), published after the EFSA scientifi...