Audio: Experts call for stricter regulation of chemicals endangering children’s health

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

The number of children with serious diseases has increased significantly over the past 50 years. An extensive array of research has found one of the primary causes is exposure to synthetic chemicals. Source: WBUR , By Lisa Mullins and Lynn Jolicoeur Now, a consortium...

‘We Give Manufactured Chemicals More Rights Than We Give Criminal Defendants’

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Over the past half-century, childhood cancer in the United States is up 35%. Pediatric asthma has tripled. And pediatric obesity has quadrupled. Source: Public Health Watch, By Jim Morris Why? An article by some of the world’s top health researchers published...

Synthetic chemicals and chemical products require a new regulatory and legal approach to safeguard children’s health

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Few legal or policy constraints apply to the global chemical inventories of an estimated 350,000 products, according to the Consortium for Children’s Environmental Health Peer-Reviewed Publication Boston College Nations must start testing and regulating chemicals and...

‘Grave Concern’: Chronic Diseases Are Killing Kids — and Exposure to Chemicals Is Driving the Epidemic

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

A paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that chronic diseases are the main cause of illness and death for children in the U.S. and Europe. The authors — 25 scientists, economists and legal scholars — called for new laws and...

Doctors ‘identify cause’ of surging childhood cancers and autism cases as they issue urgent warning

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

Top doctors have issued a global call to arms to regulate toxic chemicals that are linked to a spike in childhood cancers and autism. Source: Daily Mail, By Emily Joshu Sterne A group of scientists and doctors from 17 institutions in the US and Europe called for a...

Scientists Say Children Are Getting Sick and Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics – “Inaction is no longer an option.”

Jan 14, 2025 | Featured

A body of the world’s leading public health researchers says that the number of children dying from noncommunicable diseases over the past 50 years has gone up dramatically, largely because of exposure to synthetic chemicals and plastics. Source: Futurism, By...