Reducing Toxic Exposure
- Plastics of Concern
- Creating an Eco-Healthy Home
- Simple, cost-effective tips on making your home environmentally safe for your family.
- Eco-Healthy Home Tips: The Sources
- Here's a list of the expert studies that guide our Healthy Home Tips on cleaning during the flu season.
- Ventilation for healthy indoor air
- If you've done your best to remove sources of pollution indoors, the next step is to make sure air is flowing freely. Here's some tips for improving ventilation.
- Safer Alternatives to Bisphenol A (BPA)
- Due to growing scientific and public concern about BPA, leading U.S. retailers as well as chemical manufacturers have created safer, cost-effective alternatives to this toxic chemical. Below are the descriptions and uses of those alternatives.
- PCP Report Recommendation
- From the President's Cancer Panel Annual Report: What individuals can do to reduce environmental risks of cancer.
- Skip the antibacterial triclosan
- Plain soap and water is a great germ-fighting tool. Here's why you don't need (or want) antibacterial soap and other products made with triclosan.
- BPA and fertility
- The chemical BPA found in some plastics and epoxy linings of canned food is linked to infertility in men, women--a woman’s ability to become pregnant later in life.
- Eco-Healthy Home Tip Archive
- Take a look at the email tips sent each month to our Healthy Kids Network--and then join the list!
- BPA Message in a Bottle Report
- Message in a Bottle: A Market Survey on Bisphenol A (BPA) in Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups
- Toxic-reducing tips for artisans
- Artisans can be exposed to toxic substances when they inhale, ingest or absorb their working materials. A few simple precautions can help artists and crafts people avoid long-term health consequences.
