Smarter Choices About Personal Care Items + About Food + About Drinking Water

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Reposting from the Environmental Working Group's newsletter.

 

 

 

 

Every day, EWG's team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and

computer programmers pore over government data, legal documents, scientific

studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the

environment and to find solutions. As a new member of our community, I hope you

will take a moment to check out the resources that EWG has to offer. Some of

our most popular features include:

 

Smarter Choices About Personal Care Items

Check safety ratings for your shampoo, toothpaste, lip balm and thousands of

other products. Find out what you are really putting in and on your body:

http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep2/

 

Smarter Choices About Food

If we are what we eat then we all need to learn how to minimize our exposure

to pesticides on fruits and vegetables. Find out what's safe and what's not in

your grocery store aisle: http://www.foodnews.org/

 

Smarter Choices About Drinking Water

Many of us drink bottled water these days, but we may still use our tapwater

to wash our food, fill the tea kettle and brush our teeth. We found over 260

contaminants in the nation's water supply.

Find out whether the tap water in your community is safe:

http://www.ewg.org/tapwater/findings.php