The Center For Environmental Health
Many parents are unaware that harmful chemicals are sprinkled throughout their homes – and are even in their bodies and the bodies of their children. Many of these chemicals are already known to cause serious health problems, and many more have never been tested for safety. These dangerous and untested chemicals are in the items we all buy and use every day, like toys, children’s furniture, sippy cups, cosmetics, and food, among many others.
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) works to protect your family from these chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects, infertility, learning disabilities, asthma, and many other health problems.
In just the past few years, they’ve won major victories to protect American families. For example:
- CEH investigations, testing, and legal work ended lead poisoning threats to children from hundreds of products, and ultimately led Congress to adopt the first-ever national ban on lead in any children’s product.
- When they found cancer-causing arsenic in wood playground structures, CEH took action, and forced the entire industry to make safer playgrounds for children, without this toxic chemical.
- Their work exposed the threat to children and families from flame retardant chemicals used in virtually all furniture and many children’s products. What’s shocking is that fire safety scientists say that these chemicals — including substances linked to cancer, reproductive health hazards, and other serious health problems — don’t even help protect us in house fires.
There’s a reason why parents across the country support CEH: for nearly two decades, CEH has been the country’s leading nonprofit working to end the threat to children and families from harmful chemicals in our air, water, food and in many everyday products.
We envision a world where everyone lives, works, learns and plays in a healthy environment. We believe that toxin–free air, water, food, and consumer products is a basic human right and that we should be given the choice about what sorts of chemicals, if any, enter our bloodstreams. If you agree, please support CEH with your tax-deductible contribution today.
