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The European Union marks one year of its BPA ban…where is the FDA?? - EDF Health What’s new: January 20, 2026 marks the first-year anniversary of the European Union’s (EU) ban on most uses of bisphenol A (BPA) on most uses of bisphenol A (BPA) — an industrial chemical that’s commo...

In May 2022 FDA filed a petition by NGOs to ban and restrict certain uses of #BPA based on the latest EFSA risk assessment. Jan 20th marks the first year of the EU ban on most uses of BPA. FDA has yet to take substantive action. By law, FDA has 180 days to act.

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How these chemicals went everywhere and threatened our health These chemicals continue to contaminate Americans’ food, decades after scientists recognized their dangers.

Phthalates are the quintessential example of failure to protect the public from exposure to toxic chemicals. No matter how high the mountain of evidence is, it's never enough for the regulators to act. wapo.st/4otSko4

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New analysis identifies 14 cancer-causing substances allowed in U.S. food - EDF Health Despite a clear legal prohibition of carcinogens in food, several are still permitted, posing a risk to Americans’ health. By Maria Doa, Liora Fiksel and Emma Barrett What’s new? A new EDF analysis ha...

New analysis identifies 14 cancer-causing substances allowed in U.S. food. Despite a clear legal prohibition of carcinogens in food, several are still permitted, posing a risk to Americans’ health. @envdefensefund.bsky.social blogs.edf.org/health/2025/...

Senate hearing exposes divide over chemical safety law Industry leaders and Republicans in Congress again signaled their desire to hasten federal reviews of new chemicals at a Senate hearing, while an environmental health expert warned such changes will l...

“While industry says ‘faster, faster’ and uses buzz words like ‘progress and innovation,’ it is essential that policymakers understand the repercussions of unleashing new toxic chemicals on the population,” @traceywoodruff.bsky.social
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Today a diverse coalition of 84 organizations called on House and Senate lawmakers to oppose any legislative efforts that would block state laws protecting consumers from toxic chemicals in food. www.ewg.org/news-insight...

steviosides, stevia, saccharin, sucralose, or any sugar alcohols (glycerol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, erythritol, and Lycasin and Palatinit). Also artificial colors, processed meats and preservatives.

New N.Y.C. Food Standards Could Spell Doom for Chicken Nuggets

NYC prohibits the use of the following low- and no-calorie sweeteners: acesulfame potassium, advantame, allulose, aspartame, brazzein, monatin, monk fruit, neotame, polydextrose, rebauside, rebaudioside, (continues)
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

ProPublica analysis shows the administration cuts to health agencies are deeper than it has acknowledged. Though Kennedy said he would add scientists to the workforce, agencies have lost thousands of them.
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Opinion | The Problem Is With Men’s Sperm

Mounting evidence suggests that exposure to so-called endocrine-disrupting chemicals present in many products, from food and beverage containers to furniture and agricultural pesticides, may affect male potency from the very beginning of life.
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FDA must fix food packaging rules for MAHA to matter, scientists say By Brian Bienkowski A grim assessment of children’s health released by the Trump administration last month that pointed to several types of chemicals as contributors to chronic disease has scientist...

“The science is established that mixtures of chemicals present below the individual threshold can cause effects,” said @jmuncke.bsky.social. Roughly 3,600 food contact chemicals have been detected in humans, & at least 80 are linked to health concerns.
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FDA Seeks Input on a New Method for Ranking Chemicals in Food for Post-market Assessments. Deadline for comments is July 18. See the docket 👇
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Congreso SEMG No podemos hablar de una salud alimentaria si no hay seguridad en el envase Cómo perjudican a nuestra salud los microplásticos y otros disruptores endocrinos La SEMG advierte sobre el papel de los envases en la exposición a

La SEMG advierte sobre el papel de los envases en la exposición a disruptores endocrinos y sus efectos en la salud pública.
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Nora, el que habla no es el presidente de Harvard, es el periodista Scott Pelley.

Currently, companies can designate the use of a substance as generally recognized as safe (GRAS), & market their products without telling FDA. While companies may voluntarily submit a notice to FDA offering safety evidence, they are not required to & often don’t. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

We did the math. EPA’s calculations of male reproductive harm from DCHP are off by 50,000x. Despite decades of scientific research and evaluation linking phthalates to male reproductive harm and infertility, these chemicals remain largely unregulated in the United States. There is little ind...

@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social did the math: EPA’s calculations of male reproductive harm from exposure to endocrine disrupting phthalate DCHP are off by 50,000x. prheucsf.blog/2025/05/15/w...

Markers in blood and urine may reveal how much ultraprocessed food we are eating Scientists have identified molecules from blood and urine that may reveal how much energy a person consumes from ultraprocessed foods.

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Agree!

To curb chronic disease in Americans, the FDA needs to regulate toxic chemicals in our food. ​FDA reform — not just narrow ingredient bans — is needed to make America healthier.

To curb chronic disease in Americans, the FDA needs to assert regulatory control over toxic chemicals in our food. www.ehn.org/fda-gras-loo...

Opinion | What Kennedy Gets Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

What Kennedy Gets Right About the Chemicals in Our Food @juliabelluz.bsky.social

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this is such important work. Thank you, Mariah for elevating the struggles and resilience of the communities affected by PFAS!

Join us on Wed, April 30th for webinar Ultra-Processed Food & Plastics: A Toxic Relationship, organized by Interfaith Public Network. Learn about the health concerns and opportunities for action from US and EU experts.

Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists Abigail Dillen sees the increase of lawsuits targeting green groups as just one of the growing threats to environmental advocacy organizations — and the people who staff them.

One day they’re working on fulfilling grant requirements, the next they’re being accused of participating in a criminal “scheme.”

The new threats facing green groups — and the people who work for them.
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RFK Jr. announces intent to phase out synthetic food dyes The HHS secretary has frequently blasted food dyes found in candy, cereals, drinks and snacks, and he has made cracking down on color additives a focus of his agenda.

“There’s no one ingredient that accounts for the childhood chronic disease epidemic,” Makary said. Taking petroleum-based food dyes out of the food supply is not a silver bullet. But it is one important step.” wapo.st/4joy5X7

EPA orders staff to begin canceling research grants Agency targets programs that award up to $40 million annually

EPA ordered its staff to start canceling grants already awarded. Although EPA is not a large funder of R&D compared with other agencies, it does provide $35 million to $40 million each year to researchers studying the impacts of pollution & ways to reduce them.
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Trump administration targets academic journals with attorney letter, proposed funding cuts Budget plan would kill two CDC journals, while U.S. prosecutor accuses some nongovernmental publications of being “partisans”

Are scientific and medical journals the latest target of efforts by the administration to reshape U.S. research? The interim U.S. attorney for the DC has sent multiple journal editors letters asserting their publications are “partisans in various scientific debates”
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Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr.
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FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a 'paradigm shift' The move comes after lawmakers sought to force the agency to update regulations that would allow alternatives to animal testing.

The FDA announced plans this week to reduce — and possibly replace — animal testing with other methods for developing certain medicines in a bid to lower R&D costs and, eventually, the prices for prescription drugs.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today led a coalition of 16 attorneys general in suing the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts over its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the NIH.
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RFK Jr. says 20% of health agency layoffs could be mistakes Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC's lead poisoning program will be reinstated.

if this happens in the private sector, none of these people will survive a day on the job. But here we are...
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