The latest from EWG’s staff of experts

EWG’s News Roundup (10/20): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Farming

Water

EWG’s News Roundup (10/13): Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Key Issues: 

Children's Health

Toxics

Energy

Eradicate poverty. End hunger. Reduce inequality. Stop climate change. Such huge, idealistic goals may seem impossible.

Key Issues: 

Farming

Food

Water

The overuse of antibiotics to raise livestock is creating superbugs, bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs such as penicillin. San Francisco could soon become the first U.S. city to require major grocery stores to tell consumers if meat comes from animals given antibiotics.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Farming

Food

A groundbreaking new study found that exposure to fluoride during pregnancy can harm IQ and cognitive development in children. Fluoride is added to the tap water of two-thirds of Americans.

Key Issues: 

Children's Health

Toxics

Tap Water

Here’s some news you can use going into the weekend.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Farming

Water

Each month millions of Americans wait impatiently for curated makeup and beauty boxes to be delivered to their doorsteps. 

Key Issues: 

Consumer Products

Cosmetics

Drinking water supplies for 70 million Americans in 48 states are contaminated with arsenic at concentrations above the level scientists say increases the risk of cancer, according to nationwide test results collected in EWG's Tap Water Database.

Key Issues: 

Arsenic

Water

Tap Water

When you think of chloroform, your thoughts may drift to faint memories of 1970s television shows in which a villain knocks out their victim with chloroform-soaked cloth.

Key Issues: 

Toxics

Water

Tap Water