Growing plastic pollution not only poses a threat to wildlife and the environment, but increasingly also to human health due to pervasive microscopic plastic particles that people are ingesting through their diet, according to a research report released Monday.
EPA’s long-awaited update to its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) handbook is drawing measured praise from academics and industry but also targeted concerns, particularly regarding elements of its systematic review approach -- which the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has touted as a model for EPA’s TSCA program. A systematic review expert with the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at the University of California San Francisco praised the handbook’s approach to that discipline in a recent interview, and even said it should be a model for operations across the agency, and specifically the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) program.
Inside his lab, the biggest on Stanford’s perennially sunny campus, the director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine pulls up a seat and walks me through his very specific everyday carry.
A group of more than 40 scientists behind a series of proposals to overhaul how EPA reviews chemical risks under TSCA and across its programs is planning how to advance those reforms through Congress or public pressure, in hopes of reforming what they have described as “deficiencies” in the agency’s existing approaches.
Environmental groups used a flurry of recent meetings with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew their calls for a strict TSCA rule banning all use of the solvent methylene chloride, highlighting research they say shows both its acute toxicity and ongoing worker deaths even under OSHA’s current safety standards.
The air quality regulator for much of Southern California is risking public health by allowing emissions of ethylene oxide, a highly toxic gas associated with lymphoid and breast cancer, at levels far above the federal cancer risk guidelines for the chemical, warn environmental health experts.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed maximum limits for the amount of lead in baby foods like mashed fruits and vegetables and dry cereals, after years of studies revealed that many processed products contained levels known to pose a risk of neurological and developmental impairment.
A group of 48 US scientists from academia, NGOs and government agencies have developed five principles, with associated recommendations, for improving risk assessment and management of industrial chemicals at the EPA.
Scientists, industry and environmental groups are all pushing EPA to reconsider its approach to chemical risk assessments as it readies a slate of landmark steps on TSCA reviews, including its first moves toward considering cumulative risks under the law as well as statutory deadlines for completing 20 evaluations of existing chemicals.
Common chemicals called phthalates found in hundreds of household products have been linked to uterine fibroids—non-cancerous tumors ranging...
A group of more than 40 scientists from academia, citizen groups and state and federal agencies are floating a slate of proposals to overhaul both how EPA implements the reformed TSCA and its approach to chemical risks more broadly, saying the agency’s current methods are rife with “deficiencies” that understate the dangers of chemical exposure.
Tania Pacheco-Werner put on her walking shoes. She was halfway through her first pregnancy and had just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Her doctor's advice? Stay active.
As we near midterm elections, a new poll has done the unthinkable: found an issue that doesn’t divide us.
Most American voters say they want more government and industry protection from toxic chemicals, a new poll has found.
Do the majority of Americans want government to make sure the products they buy are free of harmful chemicals?