Tag: cancer
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Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds
Photo: Woman pointing to area on mammogram x-ray, close-up CNN — Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware, and dozens of those carcinogens can migrate into the human body, a new study found. “There is strong evidence that 76 known or potential breast carcinogens…
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Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Ban on Trichloroethylene to Protect Public from Toxic Chemical Known to Cause Serious Health Risks
Proposal aligns with President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot by reducing toxic exposures known to cause cancer WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to ban all uses of trichloroethylene (TCE), an extremely toxic chemical known to cause serious health risks including cancer, neurotoxicity, and reproductive toxicity. TCE is used in cleaning and furniture care…
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Environmental group: Iowa’s waterway cleanup plan could take 22,000 years
The nonprofit’s latest review of the state’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy – the backbone of Iowa’s water quality efforts – found the plan still isn’t working, in the council’s view. State leaders, including the agriculture secretary, insist the program is making progress.
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Study finds pharmaceuticals, other chemicals in remote Minnesota lakes
Photo: A remote lake in Cook County, Minn. A three-year study by the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa found pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in 28 lakes in northeastern Minnesota, including some with little or no human development. Courtesy Grand Portage Band of Lake…
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Scientists: new way to get ‘forever chemicals’ linked to cancer out of our water
Photo: Clarkson University professors Tom Holsen and Selma Mededovic in front of a plasma reactor. Clarkson University They’re in the bloodstreams of 99% of Americans. More than 70 years ago, a group of chemicals known as PFAS promised to make people’s lives easier and more efficient. The category of chemicals — whose full name is…
