TIP TOPICS --KIDS & TOXICS
This is our major focus for 2008! Stay tuned for more information and ways to protect our children’s health & safety! We will be updating this web page with new articles from time to time.
NEWS NOTE: Liberty Goodwin, TIP Director, has just agreed to write a column titled “AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION” for the publication Families Today. Watch for the first article, in the June issue, which will offer tips on how to identify safer plastics and toys!
Rhode Island Children’s Product Safety Bill: Your Help Is Needed Now To Protect Kids In Rhode Island From Toxic Chemicals In Their Toys & Other Products! The lead recalls were just the tip of the iceberg. We must act now to avoid harm to any more children! Click here to learn more:
Kids & Toxics Information Exchange : Important articles on the risks to children and how to protect them by avoiding harmful chemicals and choosing safer alternatives.
Kids & Toxics Information Exchange Flyer
Buyers at Risk Must-read article on consumer safety!
TO SEE “SAM SUDS & THE CASE OF THE POISON PLASTIC”, THE HILARIOUS CARTOON ON AVOIDING PVC (POLYVINYL CHLORIDE),
GO TO: WWW.SAMSUDS.ORG OR WWW.BESAFE.ORG
Toys
All I want for Christmas Are Some Lead-Free Toys
Time Magazine Tips for Safe Toys
USPIRG Trouble in Toyland 2007 Report
Toxic Toys, by Mark Schapiro
Less Toxic Fire-Resistant Sleepwear
Greenpeace 2003 Toy Report Card
Autism
Autism and Endocrine Disrupters
Making the Link Between Chemicals and Learning Disabilities
Autism: It's Not Just in the Head
Autism in Children Linked to Environmental Factors
Babies
FDA Petition on Bisphenol-A in Plastic Baby Bottles & Food Packaging
Folate Shields the Fetus Against a Chemical in Plastics
New C8 (Teflon, PFOA) Study Finds Baby Development Problem
Endocrine Disruptors
New Study: Common Air Fresheners Contain Chemicals That May Affect Human Reproductive Development
Sex Education: A Primer on Chemicals, Fertility, and Reproduction
Germs
Too Clean? Fight Against Germs Fuels Allergy Increase
War on Bacteria is Wrongheaded
Phthalates (plasticizer chemicals which make plastics soft)
The Association Between Asthma and Allergic Symptoms in Children and Phthalates in House Dust
Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Chemical in Toys
Toxic Phthalates Found in "Phthalate-Free" Products
Schools
Green Schools Offer Healthier Classrooms and Might Boost Test Scores
Is Dissection Necessary in Rhode Island Schools? Do Kids Have to Participate? Why is This a Health/Environment Issue?
Which Plastics are Safe for Lunchbox Use?
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New England Inhalant Prevention Coalition update, 3/07
2006 Articles
One in Six High School Students Has Asthma
Toxic Elements Found in Cord Blood
AMA: Kids Exposed to Pesticides on School Grounds
A Mother's Story of Pesticide Poisoning
Calcium Can Reduce Effects of Lead Exposure
Children, Pesticides and Schools
Children Harmed when Pesticides are Used at School
EPA Sued Over Children's Exposure to Pesticides
Inhalant Abuse, the Silent Epidemic
Inhalants Kill, a mother's plea. A different reason to throw away that can of air freshener.
Is Pollution Making Our Minds Melt? / Drawings by Yaqui Kids
Non-Toxic Treatment for Head Lice
Plastic Baby Bottles — Are They Safe?
