Archive: Environmental Toxins
Mercury Fillings Revisited
With little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this week acknowledged on its Web site that mercury amalgam fillings -- the silvery material used for decades to plug cavities -- could be harmful. This admission, which came after the FDA settled a lawsuit with several consumer advocacy groups,...
By Jennifer Huget | June 6, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (7)
Breathe At Your Own Risk
Spring is in the air. And so, apparently, is a lot of soot. As was reported yesterday, the D.C./Baltimore/Northern Virginia area again has scored a spot in the American Lung Association's annual list of the top-10 cities with the filthiest air. Here's the full assessment. On the bright side, the...
By Jennifer Huget | May 2, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
Know Your Poisons -- And How to Get Rid of Them
Last month's worries about contaminated tap water and this week's concerns about bisphenol A (BPA) leaching out of the everyday plastic items we use have prompted understandable hand-wringing online. Are we being poisoned by our environment? Worse still, are we poisoning our babies? Thinking about those questions raised others: Isn't...
By Jennifer Huget | April 18, 2008; 07:05 AM ET | Comments (0)
First Baby Bottles, Now the Furniture?
First a new report raises "some concern" about the safety of BPA, a chemical found in many plastic products, including food containers and baby bottles. Now new research might make you want to throw out your furniture, toss your shampoo and tear the insulation out of your walls. It's...
By Rob Stein | April 17, 2008; 07:10 AM ET | Comments (0)
