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?

 

 


Toxics Information Project (TIP)
P.O. Box 40441, Providence, RI 02940
Tel. 401-351-9193
E-Mail: TIP@toxicsinfo.org
Website: www.toxicsinfo.org