Is Toxic the New Black?

The fashion industry seems to think that toxic is the shade of the season, with new evidence of toxic clothes to match toxic purses and toxic jewelry. Greenpeace has recently released a report that uncovers the use of a cocktail of toxic chemicals in clothing by 20 major fashion brands, including Calvin Klein, Armani, Victoria’s

Non-Toxic Halloween Candy: To Protect Your Health, Be Picky and Choosy

You may have heard by now that CEH has found dangerous levels of lead in some types of plum and ginger candy.  We’ve taken legal action against eight retailers and distributors of plum and ginger candies, urging the companies to take immediate action to get the products off of store shelves. But Halloween is right

Eco-Tip: Avoiding Toxic Chemicals in Kids PJ’s and other products

Recently I got an email from a pregnant woman wondering about the safety of using hand-me-down pajamas for her newborn given the historic use of flame retardants in children’s sleepwear.  The issue of flame retardants in sleepwear is not as straight forward for consumers as it should be. But let’s see if I can shed

Halloween Hyperactivity Comes in Bright Colors

Halloween is one of those holidays where even the most rational, health-conscious adults give their kids, and themselves, a break and let all junk food precautions fall by the wayside?.  They fill their homes with all the Snickers, Skittles, M&Ms and other Halloween candy goodness that they can find, for their kids, trick-or-treaters, and for

Eco-Tip: Why You Shouldn’t Use RoundUp (or Trust Its Labels)

At the risk of sounding like the geek that I really am, I’ll make this confession: I’ve been reading the fine print on the back (and front) of Roundup bottles for a couple of decades. The Roundup I’m talking about here is not cowboys chasing down straggling cattle or horses. Roundup, along with other brand