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. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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/...

“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 www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/tsca...

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...

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) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/n...

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. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...,

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. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

“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. www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/fda-...

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 👇 www.regulations.gov/docket/FDA-2...

La SEMG advierte sobre el papel de los envases en la exposición a disruptores endocrinos y sus efectos en la salud pública. www.immedicohospitalario.es/noticia/5164...

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...

@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...

apnews.com/article/ultr... in blood and urine may reveal how much ultraprocessed food we are eating

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...

What Kennedy Gets Right About the Chemicals in Our Food @juliabelluz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

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.

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. www.propublica.org/article/eart...

“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 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. www.science.org/content/arti...

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” www.science.org/content/arti...

Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. Watch the full video here: tinyurl.com/4fhc6k2c

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. www.mass.gov/news/ag-camp...

if this happens in the private sector, none of these people will survive a day on the job. But here we are... www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

At the center of the controversy, officials tell POLITICO, is the HHS DOGE lead’s secretive approach and his attempts to shield one agency he has ties to from the reduction in force process. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

CLF recruits a limited number of student Summer Research Assistants positions to work during the summer. This year these positions are only open to current JHU students. There are two openings at the Center. APPLY NOW. clf.jhsph.edu/employment/s...

"Make America Healthy Again" is dead heated.world/p/make-ameri...

“Very little has happened to protect these people. And one of the major reasons for that is that current approaches have not done a good job showing they’re in harm’s way,” Nachman said. “When we regulate chemicals, we pretend that we’re only exposed to one chemical at a time.” wapo.st/3FOsAC1

14 food chemical actions RFK Jr. can take to ‘Make America Healthy Again’. www.ewg.org/news-insight...

This is a sad story. Ultra-processed babies: are toddler snacks one of the great food scandals of our time? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Closing the GRAS Loophole is a Good Idea. The FDA has the clear authority to significantly strengthen oversight of food chemicals now; here are five major ways 👇 earthjustice.org/experts/pete...

I feel like this bit is still very relevant to describe what's happening youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU

He Fought Claims of Harm From Infant Formula. Now He Regulates It. Kyle Diamantas, defended a top formula maker in cases claiming the company had not warned of potential risks to very low-weight babies. He is the new director for the FDA food division. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research. Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs www.science.org/content/arti...

@hbottemiller.bsky.social @foodfixco.bsky.social you made to the late show. Congrats!

Scoop: Jim Jones has resigned as FDA deputy commissioner for human foods. The move comes after the Trump administration over the weekend fired thousands of employees across HHS, including many within FDA’s foods program. foodfix.co/jim-jones-re...

Trump and RFK campaigned on getting toxic chemicals out of food. But you can’t do that without scientists & staffing up the chemicals office has been a challenge for years. Axing the new hires means MAHA is off to a rough start apnews.com/article/fda-...

In a commentary published in Frontiers in Toxicology, researchers highlight the gaps preventing current regulatory approaches from adequately addressing harmful chemical exposures. @ehnewsroom.bsky.social www.ehn.org/insufficient...

ECHA takes on new role to improve safety of packaging materials. The first is to support the EC by preparing a study identifying chemicals of concern in packaging and related components assessing how these chemicals affect their safety, reuse and recycling. echa.europa.eu/-/echa-takes...

An excellent reporting by Alec Opperman on the broken generally recognized as safe (GRAS) system that allows companies to put chemicals in food of unknown safety. Neither FDA nor consumers know what's in our food. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTb8...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately wapo.st/3Q9DrIH

The Trump administration is “saying let them drink lead”, said Erik Olson, senior adviser to the NRDC Action Fund. @nrdc.org “It’s a bad look to support lead poisoning children,” Olson added. “Not the best foot forward for the new Congress.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

About two-thirds of Americans “somewhat” or “strongly” favor restricting or reformulating processed foods to remove ingredients like added sugar or dyes. This is an area where Democrats and Republicans agree: About 7 in 10 in each group favor the restrictions. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

between 1990 and 2019, the incidence of cancer in under-50s rose by 79%, that means the rise cannot be explained by genetic factors, said Tracey Woodruff, director of the UCSF's Programme on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Yesterday Trump EPA withdrew a pending Biden plan that would have set discharge limits on PFAS (forever chemicals). "It’s an unconscionable betrayal of the public’s health in favor of corporate interests," says @melaniebenesh.bsky.social www.ewg.org/news-insight...

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS Even more troubling to many researchers is a pause on study sections that many received word of today. Without such meetings, NIH cannot make research awards. www.science.org/content/arti...

“The question is how extensively is that pause enforced? If there is something that requires immediate action, it needs to be communicated because lapsed time means lost lives,” said Dr. Brian Castrucci, pres/CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation @reportergoodman.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...