Katy Farber is an author, teacher and green blogger. In her latest work, she takes busy parents by the hand to help them navigate each aspect of safer, healthier eating. Katy’s insight and experience is especially helpful for new parents who are trying to tackle this mountain of information alone. Eat Non-Toxic: a manual for [...]
A few years ago, I never would have imagined that dust could be such an issue. I saw it as nothing more than an “unsightly” lack of motivation on my part. Much to my dismay, house dust now tops the list as one of the most significant sources of childhood exposure to toxic substances. Chemicals [...]
Awareness of BPA in plastics is becoming more common, but did you know that children’s lunch boxes, binders, backpacks and nap mats can contain chemicals linked to learning disabilities, ADHD, obesity, and asthma? A new 2011 study found PVC is one of the most widely used hazardous plastics in the world because it’s made with [...]
Phthalates were banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2008 for products intended for children under the age of three. But don’t be lulled into a false sense of security when “phthalate-free PVC” is proudly displayed on that new baby toy you’re thinking about buying. Phthalate-free Vinyl (PVC, #3) is Safe, Right? While it’s [...]
Emily Barrett of Environmental Health Perspectives recently provided a great synopsis of an updated review of food contact materials and their potential to leach endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC’s) into our food. Author of the review, Jane Muncke, didn’t mince words when issuing her findings, calling into question the current means of estimating the true level [...]
The Ecology Center (HealthyStuff.org) tested 68 Christmas light sets and found that a shocking 54% of the products contained more than 300 parts per million of lead in PVC …
We learned a lot about PVC and lead last year in our research on artificial Christmas trees. The toxic couple made yet another grand appearance as we turned our attention to Christmas lights this season. It turns out that lead is specifically chosen as the main stabilizer in the PVC casing used on the electrical [...]
If this most recent news highlighting the woes of PVC doesn’t convince America that it’s time to make a major move toward PVC-free alternatives, then nothing will! The nonprofit Ecology Center tested over 1,000 flooring samples and nearly 2,300 types of wallpaper for substances that have been linked to asthma, birth defects, learning disabilities, reproductive [...]
You may have noticed that we just added a bunch of awesome, non-toxic HABA toys to our store (yeah!). You may have also noticed that we had their Bath Squirters listed until yesterday morning – then WAH-BAM-POW, they were no more. Here’s how everything went down . . . We are constantly in the hunt [...]
