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• Support inquiry into fluoride as carcinogen

  An online petition calling for a Congressional investigation into the safety of fluoridation has been posted on the Fluoride Action Network website. Maureen Jones, the director of Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, is calling attention to the petition which, she says, supports the 11 environmental protection unions that are contending that there should be a […]

• EPA proposal to list new carcinogens: Vinyl fluoride and Tetrafluoroethylene

  Title: Addition of National Toxicology Program Carcinogens; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting ACTION: Proposed rule. Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–TRI–2010–0006 SUMMARY: EPA is proposing to add sixteen chemicals to the list of toxic chemicals subject to reporting under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986 and section 6607 of […]

• Carcinogen worries stick to food packaging

  The next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to voluntarily stop using by 2015. Studies show that this chemical — perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA — is present […]

• California Carcinogen Identification Committee new review on PFOS and Its Salts

  Note from FAN: See the first review by CA OEHHA, March 2009 See also the Environmental Working Group submission to OEHHA in May 2009 Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and Its Salts and Transformation and Degradation Precursors Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its salts are perfluorinated organic compounds with surfactant properties. Common salts of PFOS include the ammonium, […]

• EPA Unions Call on Agency, Congress To Recognize Carcinogenicity of Fluoride

  Unions representing Environmental Protection Agency employees and other public health professionals have asked Congress to impose a nationwide moratorium on drinking water flouridation programs and called on EPA to set a goal of reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water based on evidence it is associated with cancer. The request, set forth in letters […]

• Fluoride nominated for review for carcinogenicity and developmental neurotoxicity & endocrine disruption

  Nominations to the Report on Carcinogens and Office of Health Assessment and Translation; Request for Information Summary National Toxicology Program (NTP) Office of the Report on Carcinogens (ORoC) and Office of Health Assessment and Translation (OHAT) request information on nine substances, mixtures, and exposure circumstances (collectively referred to as “substances”). Six substances are nominated for […]

• South Orange responds to discovery of ‘likely carcinogen’ in water supply

  News articles in the past week have brought to light an issue involving contaminated water supplies in some New Jersey municipalities, including South Orange. A specific chemical, PFOA, was found in levels exceeding the NJ Department of Environmental Protection’s guidelines. PFOA is a “likely carcinogen,” according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The Village distributed […]

• Results and conclusions of the National Toxicology Program’s rodent carcinogenicity studies with sodium fluoride.

• Co-exposure of potentially toxic elements in wheat grains reveals a probabilistic health risk in Southwestern Guizhou, China.

  Introduction Soil pollution by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has spread worldwide, provoking the ecosystem and health risks to humans, owing to their stable, persistent, and irreversible properties (1). Crops grown in contaminated soils may accumulate PTE in their edible parts, resulting in an excessive human intake, which eventually poses adverse impacts to humans via the food chain […]

• A stable and sensitive testing system for potential carcinogens based on DNA damage-induced gene expression in human HepG2 cell