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Our Victories 2006: In a letter to makers of children’s vinyl lunchboxes, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July warned that lead from lunchboxes could leach into children’s food, a vindication for Generation Green and CEH, which had been warning the public about the threat since 2005. 2004: Congress passes the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization, with the last-minute addition of language on irradiated food in the school lunch program that provides several key pieces of protection we and our members had pushed legislators to support. 2004: Department of Defense decides to put surplus mercury into long-term storage rather than keep it in current locations or sell to other countries. 2002: After more than a year fighting for a ban on arsenic-treated wood in play structures, decks and picnic tables, with our members generating a tremendous number of letters to government and retailers, a phase out of arsenic-treated wood is announced. 2000: Generation Green collects numerous signatures and letters to show the EPA that the public wanted children protected from the dangerous pesticides Diazinon and Dursban, and the EPA announced a phase-out soon thereafter. 1998: The Consumer Product Safety Commission affirmed our concern that toxins ingested by children sucking on PVC plastic toys can lead to cancer, kidney problems, and reproductive health risks. This acknowledgement has helped pressure manufacturers to make safer toys and baby products. Lead Campaign
Lead is a potententially daily threat to our families, thanks to corporate greed and lax governments protections.
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Cloned Food Fears Slowly but surely, cloned animals are working their way toward your table. But the companies that want to use cloned animals don't seem to want to study the risks or let you know which milk products and foods are cloned, and we need to correct that. (Details)
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A New Era Tens of thousands of harmful chemicals are currently in commercial and industrial use in the United States. Our friends, families and neighbors live every day in an unregulated soup of well-known pollutants and industrial chemicals. I founded the Center for Environmental Health in 1996 to help protect the public from toxic chemicals. Ten years later, CEH has a track record of doing just that: from getting the lead out of baby powder, imported candy, children’s jewelry, and lunchboxes to creating markets for sustainable food and less-toxic electronics to crafting our nation’s first municipal ordinance that acts on the prudent, early warnings of science. Along the way, we have admired the success of Generation Green’s efforts to eliminate the threat that lead, mercury, arsenic, and other chemicals pose to children. When Rochelle Davis suggested CEH and Generation Green come together, it was a natural fit. It unites CEH’s far-reaching legal work, our collaborative relationships with industries, and our efforts to help government adopt sound policy with Generation Green’s track record of educating the public and equipping them to push for change. I am delighted to introduce CEH to Generation Green members. You’ll be hearing much more from us in the coming months. In the meantime, thank you for caring about this vital work. ------------------------ Generation Green Project
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Generating a grass-roots movement... Generation Green: uniting citizens for a toxin-free world ------------------------ Fresh Choices
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