Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) applauds a recent article in the Boston Globe, “Skip the breast cancer awareness gimmicks and donate directly,” which cautions consumers to reconsider purchasing pink products during this month of breast cancer awareness promotion. MBCC renews our call to define “awareness” in broader terms – to move away from the highly … Read more
by Jennifer Ohayon, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Silent Spring Institute Previous studies may be greatly underestimating the toxicity of parabens with respect to breast cancer risk and reproductive problems according to new research published by the Silent Spring Institute and our collaborators. Estrogen-mimicking chemicals called parabens are a class of preservatives widely used in consumer products … Read more
MBCC Board President Margo Simon Golden joined with Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow on April 16th for their national “Mind the Store” day of action to raise awareness of toxic chemicals in consumer products found at Walgreens. Nationally and throughout the Commonwealth, concerned citizens descended on Walgreens to inform individual stores that … Read more
Mariah Blake, Reporter for Mother Jones, recently wrote a scary yet informative piece on a very real consequence of our virtually non-existent chemical regulatory system: when one chemical is removed from products, there is no guarantee in place that the replacement is any safer. She uses the recent example of BPA in plastic products to … Read more
