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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Splash Animation On kiddie pools	Umbra Fisk	09 Jun 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Regarding your obsession with vinyl, as pertains to summer parenting: Greenpeace's thorough Vinyl Alternatives list indicates that no good alternatives to vinyl kiddie pools exist. Do you think it is worth it to put a huge effort into manufacturing or finding a vinyl-free backyard wading experience? I can't stop thinking about this, and think it merits faking a question. Yours as always, Umbra Dearest Me, What a great questi ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Leading to problems Implications of the study linking childhood lead exposure and adult criminality	Liz Borkowski	30 May 2008	Gristmill
A study just published in the journal PLoS Medicine (and written up in the L.A. Times) suggests a link between childhood lead exposure and adult arrests for violent crimes. Studying 250 adults for whom they had prenatal and childhood blood lead level measurements, University of Cincinnati researchers found that each 5-microgram-per-deciliter increase in blood lead levels at age 6 was associated with a nearly 50 percent increased risk of arrest as a young adult (the ris ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, health, parenting, scientific research, toxics (all these topics)

Candy-shaped rat poison on its way out EPA gives manufacturers three years to adjust to new regulations designed to protect children	Fawn Pattison	30 May 2008	Gristmill
The U.S. EPA announced today that it would be tightening up the safety requirements on ten nasty rodenticides that are blamed for poisoning around 10,000 children -- mostly black and Latino inner-city kids -- every year. Those ten chemicals will no longer be available in the form of little pellets that look like candy, and that small children are so prone to stick in their mouths. The new rules will require non-agricultural users of rat poison to use it only inside tam ...
Topics: green living, health, parenting, regulation, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Ew, Toxins Again? U.S. health agency says ubiquitous chemical may harm kiddos		16 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:24 PM on 16 Apr 2008 A U.S. federal agency has declared that there is "some concern" that chemical bisphenol A can harm the development of children's brains and reproductive systems. The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, issued a draft report following up on an 18-month review of BPA. The agency reported more concern than was suggested by its advisory panel, ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, parenting, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Polyvinyl Want an Attacker? PVC is latest target of folks concerned about toxic toys		13 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 11:57 AM on 13 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Lead-toy furor is so last year; the source du jour of parental outrage is plastic polyvinyl chloride in toys. Numerous playthings -- balls, dolls, rubber duckies, tea sets, you name it -- contain PVC, which is made with carcinogen vinyl chloride, often softened with phthalates, and frequently contains lead and other heavy metals. While the Toy Industry Associa ...
Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Toxic as a Baby's Bottom Lotioned-up babies have high phthalate levels, says study		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:58 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Photo: iStockphoto Ways to poison your kids: It's not just bottles, car seats, and toys anymore! Tots exposed to baby cosmetics -- lotions, shampoos, powders, and the like -- have high levels of toxic phthalates in their wee bodies, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. Lotion exposure led to the highest phthalate concentrations in infant urine; use of baby ...
Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

The Age of Ban Senate passes asbestos ban, Democrats want to rid toys of lead		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:38 PM on 05 Oct 2007 Hey, you with the asbestos-contaminated attic: The Senate has unanimously passed a measure to ban importation, manufacture, processing, and distribution of products containing asbestos. Forty other nations have already banned the cancer-causing mineral, which is found in more than 3,000 consumer products in the U.S. Speaking of things that should have happened a long time ago, Democrat ...
Topics: green living, health, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics)

To Freak or Not To Freak? How four green parents deal with the plastics scare	Katharine Wroth	20 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Pop quiz time: plastic baby bottles are a) completely safe, or b) a risk to you, your baby, and every other living thing in the entire universe? The answer lies somewhere in between -- but you wouldn't know it from most media reports. Over the last year, countless stories have sprung up citing research about the dangers of endocrine disruptor bisphenol A leaching from clear plastic baby b ...
Topics: consumerism, green living, health, parenting, shopping, special series, toxics (all these topics)

Two Words: No Plastics A guide to buying non-plastic baby products	Katy Balatero	20 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Worried sick about plastic -- or even feeling a teeny bit queasy? Here are a few alternatives for common baby items, and resources for where to buy 'em. (And don't forget, you could always make your own.) Squeaky clean and PVC-free. Photo: iStockphoto Bathtubs Non-plastic baby tubs seem to be hard to find; probably the best you can do here is to use a nylon mesh sling or recyclable polypropylene Tummy ...
Topics: green living, health, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Lead-ers of Tomorrow Lead levels in toxic toys were off the charts		19 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:04 AM on 19 Sep 2007 In reaction to the recent lead-painted-toy recalls, no doubt some laissez-faire non-parents shrugged it off -- when pretty much everything is tainted with toxins, what's a little lead in paint? Except that, well, it was more than just a little lead. Some of the toys recalled by Mattel this summer contained 180 times the legally allowable level of the heavy metal, while some kids' jewelry sold by ...
Topics: green living, health, news, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

Sex Education A primer on chemicals, fertility, and reproduction	Emily Gertz	18 Sep 2007	Grist Feature
Illustration: Keri Rosebraugh Feeling unusually infertile lately? You're not alone: according to a December 2005 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12 percent of American couples reported having a hard time conceiving a child and bearing it to term in 2002, up 20 percent from the 6.1 million couples reporting such "impaired fecundity" in 1995. Although the re ...
Topics: green living, health, parenting, sex, special series, toxics (all these topics)

Meany in a Bottle Baby bottles found to leak chemicals, California may ban them		01 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Meany in a Bottle Baby bottles found to leak chemicals, California may ban them Most parents discourage their kiddos from ingesting known toxics, so a new study from green group Environment California is a bit of a bummer: when run through a simulated dishwasher 50 to 75 times, name-brand baby bottles leach the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in levels that have caused reproductive abno ...
Topics: California, green living, health, news, parenting, politics, toxics (all these topics)

What not to buy for Christmas Watch out for scary chemicals in plastic toys for tots	Lisa Hymas	13 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Umbra offered up a number of clever gift ideas for kids in her latest column, focusing particularly on experiences rather than things. But if you still want to do some thing-giving for those wee ones, you might first want to check out 'What's Toxic In Toyland,' an article by Margot Roosevelt in Time. San Francisco has just banned some plastic toys aimed at kids under three. The prime targets -- bisphenol A and phthalates -- have been found in everything from rubber duckie ...
Topics: San Francisco, parenting, health, toxics, green living (all these topics)

How toxic is your breast milk?	Lisa Hymas	09 Jan 2005	Gristmill
A nice treatment of this topic in today's New York Times Magazine, from Florence Williams. When we nurse our babies, we feed them not only the fats, sugars and proteins that fire their immune systems, metabolisms and cerebral synapses. We also feed them, albeit in minuscule amounts, paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline byproducts, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides and flame retardants. If, as Ci ...
Topics: food, green living, health, parenting, toxics (all these topics)

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