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"Chemical Industry Archives, a project by environmental working group www.chemicalindustryarchives.org Environmental Health Perspectives www.ehponline.org United States National Library of Medicine, Environmental Health and Toxicology http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html The Right-to-Know Network, which provides free access to numerous databases and resources on the environment www.rtknet.org/rtkdata.php Skin Deep, a cosmetic safety database by Environmental Working Group www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/ The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics www.safecosmetics." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The most telling work detailing what contaminants are entering our bodies and how much toxicity accumulates in our cells and bloodstreams over time comes from a 2003 study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, in collaboration with the environmental working group (EWG), an advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. Their findings reveal the "body burden" of environmental chemicals and heavy metals carried by the average American." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "According to another study by the environmental working group, in a test of fifteen thousand cosmetic products, almost 80 percent contained harmful impurities that include known or probable carcinogens, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, plasticizers, and degreasers. Despite these impurities, many of these products were nevertheless labeled as "organic" or "natural" because the government does not regulate personal-care-product labeling, and a product need only contain one or two botanical extracts to acquire the "natural" or "organic" label." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Recently a series of comprehensive studies intended to illustrate the human body burden has been conducted through the collaborative efforts of two nonprofit health and environmental research organizations: environmental working group (EWG), based in Washington, D.C., and Commonweal, based in California. Both strive to use the power of communal information to contribute to and protect public and environmental health." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "One of the most surprising discoveries of late has been the detection of perchlorate in 160 public water systems in 22 states, which urged the environmental working group to publish a press release in 2006 declaring perchlorate a "widespread public health threat" for pregnant women. The vast majority of perchlorate manufactured in the United States is used by the Department of Defense to make solid rocket and missile fuel, while smaller amounts are used to make fireworks and road flares." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"And while you're on the Environmental Working Group's Web site, you should spend some time exploring other topics as well. You can access a wealth of useful information on a wide range of environmental issues, from drinking-water standards to carcinogenic ingredients in cosmetics. For nonproduce items, the rules are even simpler. If you eat meat, eggs, and dairy products—which I don't recommend—you should only buy organic versions of these items, to protect yourself from antibiotics, growth hormones, and other dangerous toxins that nonorganic animal products all too frequently contain." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "To help you prioritize, the environmental working group has come up with a list of the twelve most important fruits and vegetables to buy organic. These rankings take into account the high pesticide residue levels found on the conventional versions. The produce items with the highest levels of pesticides are: 1. Apples 2. Bell peppers 3. Celery 4. Cherries 5. Grapes (imported) 6. Nectarines 7. Peaches 8. Pears 9. Potatoes 10. Red raspberries 11. Spinach 12. Strawberries You can find a printable wallet guide of this list at www.foodnews.org/ walletguide.php." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "But a groundbreaking 2004 study by the environmental working group (EWG) showed that the umbilical cord ferries "not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol." The EWG called this phenomenon the "human 'body burden'—the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "This constantly updated Web site, provided by the environmental working group, evaluates thousands of personal-care products?from shampoos to makeup to moisturizer—and rates them according to toxicity. It also lists which popular products might be cotaminated with impurities. Products that may be contaminated with impurities. 9,747 (76.8%) products may be contaminated with impurities. Showing top 20 product categories, ranked by prevalence. Category Percent of Products Varicose/Spider Vein Treatment 100.0 (9) Hair Color and Bleaching 98.1 (156) Bubble Bath 97." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and Teflon chemicals, according to a 2004 study by the environmental working group (EWG). Teflon: This chemical in cooking pots is also carcinogenic. Food should never be prepared in Teflon cookware. Use glass, cast iron, carbon steel, titanium, and enamel cookware. PVC shower-curtains: They emit a strong smell can cause serious damage to your liver as well as to the nervous, reproductive, and respiratory systems." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"All pesticides must be registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, but, as the environmental working group warns, "Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible." Ninety percent of new compounds are granted restriction-free approval. National Geographic reports that "only a quarter of the 82,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. have ever been tested for toxicity" There's no transparency with synthetic inputs: they're never listed as ingredients." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"In its petition to the FDA, the environmental working group had requested that several categories of cosmetics products carry the warning label: "Warning. The safety of this product has not been determined," as allowed by FDA regulations. These categories were taken from an analysis of actions taken (or rather, not taken) by the Cosmetic Ingredients Review, an industry-funded science panel that has evaluated the safety of just 11 percent of the more than 10,000 ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "A 2004 petition to the FDA filed by the environmental working group, requesting warning labels on 356 personal care products, received this 2005 response from the FDA: "The [Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act] contains no provision that requires demonstration to FDA of the safety of ingredients of cosmetic products ... prior to marketing the product.... The Act does not authorize FDA to order a recall for a defective or possibly harmful cosmetic product." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Two years later the environmental working group tested umbilical cord blood from newborns and detected 287 synthetic chemicals, including 180 chemicals that are known to cause cancer in humans or animals, demonstrating that mothers are passing their body burdens of synthetic chemicals directly into their unborn children during gestation, with unpredictable consequences for their children's health later in life. All of this history, taken together, illustrates how and why we in the U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Luckily for us, the environmental working group researchers have created a remarkable database that pairs the ingredients in nearly 25,000 products against 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. It is a safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products. Go to www.cosmeticdatabase.com and check the cosmetics you use." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "According to the environmental working group, the average American is exposed to more than a hundred different chemicals from personal care products every day.2 And although the cosmetic industry asserts that its products are safe, 89 percent of the ingredients used in cosmetics today have not been assessed by either the FDA or the industry itself.3 This is because there are major gaps in public health laws that allow cosmetics companies to use almost any ingredient they choose with no restrictions and no requirement for safety testing." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"A subsequent study by the environmental working group concluded that at least one-quarter of all personal care products sold in the U.S. are contaminated with dioxane (5 ). With odds like these, the risk of exposure, to our children and ourselves, is gravely high. Types of Carcinogens There are two major classes of carcinogenic ingredients. The first is "frank" carcinogens, a category that includes over forty substances. The second is "hidden" carcinogens, a category that includes approximately thirty substances." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"In fact a recent study of the umbilical cord blood of ten American newborns commissioned by the environmental working group proved that pesticides and other chemicals are found in the blood of newborns. The analysis found 287 foreign, toxic chemicals in total, while the babies averaged 200 contaminants each! Ideally, one should come to pregnancy having already been cleansed and raw for years. But that is not always possible, as in the case of unplanned pregnancy. In such a case, there are those who feel pregnancy is nonetheless a great time for a woman to go raw." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"For produce, choose organic varieties if you're buying one of the items found by the environmental working group (a nonprofit group of researchers who investigate environmental health threats) to be among the most contaminated (see chart on page 293). If you must buy nonorganic, choose produce that is least likely to be contaminated. Wash the nonorganic produce vigorously under running water to remove as much potentially harmful residue as possible. (Organic produce also should be washed." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Even waterways that are far away from any ocean, such as the Elkhorn River in Nebraska or the Colorado River in the Western part of the United States, are known to have mercury-contaminated fish. The environmental working group (EWG) issued the following list of high-mercury fish: 1. Swordfish 2. Tuna 3. King mackerel 4. Halibut 5. Sea bass 6. Tilefish 7. Pike 8. Walleye 9. Largemouth bass 10. White croaker 11. Marlin 12. Shark 13. Gulf coast oysters There are other environmental concerns related to fish farming." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The FDA recommends that a woman weighing 130 pounds can safely eat half a can of albacore tuna per week. The environmental working group (www.ewg.org) states that no amount of albacore tuna is safe for a woman of this weight based on More die in the the high levels of mercury in tuna fish. Sadly, there are few u.s. from too freshwater or saltwater fish that are safe for human con- much food than sumprion on a regular basis. tOO little ^a^' neres a run t'P: you kn°w that the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allows toxic Galbraith waste to be "recycled" and placed into fertilizer?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"The babies were born in US hospitals in August and September of 2004 and chosen at random by the Red Cross for the study conducted by the environmental working group, a Washington DC research organization, and Commonweal, a California health and environmental group.1 It was the first time such a wide range of pollutants had been measured in the umbilical cord blood of newborns who had never been in direct contact with industrialized society." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Parents know intuitively that babies in the womb are more vulnerable to the effects of industrial chemicals than adults," said Jane Houlihan, vice president of research at the environmental working group and lead author of the cord-blood study. "This intuition is backed by science that has unfolded primarily over the past two decades." Pound for pound, kids absorb more chemicals into their bodies, and their immature systems often don't detoxify and eliminate chemicals as efficiently as adults." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "In one of her last activist projects, Andrea's photo appeared in a full-age ad in the New York Times and she flew to Washington, DC to speak at a press conference organized by the environmental working group. She had been among the Commonweal Cohort, the first nine people in the world to know their personal chemical body burden from their participation in the EWG/Mount Sinai study.1 "Warning, Andrea Martin contains 59 cancer causing chemicals," read the headline over her photo in the ad.2 "My body biology is susceptible to cancer," Andrea said." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"Ginty from Women's eNews and posted on the environmental working group Web site, here is another example of the cost of dangerous cosmetics: When Olivia James gave birth to her son Darren seven years ago, she learned he had bright eyes and a dimple on his right cheek. She also learned he had hypospadia, a birth defect in which the urethra fails to extend the whole length of the penis. Repeated surgeries have corrected Darren's problem." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"If you decide to eat a mixture of organic and conventionally grown produce, here are the best vegetables and fruits to buy organic, because otherwise they're found consistently contaminated with pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group: ¦ Apples ¦ Peaches n Bell peppers » Pears « Celery s Potatoes « Cherries ¦ Red raspberries b Imported grapes Spinach Nectarines > Strawberries Stop SUGAR SHOCK! to Lose Weight Sugar Kickers around the world say that kicking sweets and refined carbs peeled off pounds like no other diet they've undertaken." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the environmental working group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put imported grapes on its 2003 list of twelve foods most contaminated with pesticides. The organization suggests you buy organic. I agree. Griiava * Guavas are fragrant, delicious tropical fruits that many Americans know only because they're frequently used in jellies. But these red-fleshed (and sometimes white-fleshed) fruits pack an amazing nutritional wallop. Neva government research demonstrates that guava may indeed deserve a place among the antioxidant elite." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "The environmental working group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put broccoli on their 2003 list of twelve foods least contaminated with pesticides. Nice to know! < m m 00 r— m to Broccoli It a be Broccoli rabe is really only a very, very distant relative of broccoli, and is in fact a lot more related to the turnip (it's often called a "turnip green"). But from the point of view of taste, you might think of it as broccoli on steroids." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "C Unfortunately, the environmental working group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put apples on its 2003 list of twelve foods most contaminated with pesticides. The organization suggests you buy organic. I agree. Apricots An apricot is basically a tasty little low-calorie bundle of nutrients put together in a beautiful, sun-colored package. What's not to like?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, the environmental working group, a consumer advocate and protection nonprofit research organization, put cherries on its 2003 list of twelve foods most contaminated with pesticides. The organization suggests you buy organic. I agree. Coconut * I really looked forward to writing this section, because I felt it would give me a chance to right one of the greatest nutritional misconceptions of all time: the idea that coconut, because it contains saturated fat, is bad for you. Let me be very clear at the outset: Coconut and coconut oil are superfoods." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

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