EPA, fertilizer and testicular cancer

EPA Bans Two Cancer-Causing Chemicals: Check Your Products Now
The EPA's new ban on two dangerous chemicals affects products you might be using right now. Learn how these cancer-causing substances in cleaning products and dry cleaning could impact your family's health and what alternatives are safe to use.
EPA: Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer are causing cancer–here's who is most at risk
Chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer pose cancer risk, EPA says
When people eat or drink foods containing “forever” chemicals, the compounds accumulate in the body and can cause kidney, prostate, and testicular cancer.
EPA Report Reveals Health Impacts of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Sewage Sludge
Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge applied to farmland can cause cancer and other diseases in people who live near farm fields where the sludge is applied, or consume tainted milk, beef or other foods from these farms.
Use of PFAS-tainted sludge as fertilizer raises cancer risk on farms, EPA says
Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were fertilized with PFAS-laced sewage sludge, the EPA reported this week. The results do not suggest that the broader food supply is contaminated.
EPA finds possible health risks associated with PFAS in sewage sludge
Environmental advocates are calling for a ban the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. An EPA draft report found that there may be health risks associated with exposure to PFAS "forever chemicals" in the sludge,
Red dye No. 3 ban: Health watchdog warns of 3 other food additives linked to cancer
The president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest has pinpointed three more additives they’d like to see banned ...
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EPA ban on toxic chemicals found in Camp Lejeune water takes effect this week
A final rule from the US Environmental Protection Agency banning a toxic chemical found in Camp Lejeune’s drinking water is ...
EPA finalizes rule banning TCE, PCE chemicals
The agency will phase out degreasing substance trichloroethylene and dry cleaning solvent perchloroethylene to protect ...
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EPA restricts use of chemicals used in dry cleaning, brake cleaners
The Environmental Protection Agency has banned the use of perchloroethylene in dry cleaning processes. The chemical will be phased out over a 10-year period. The EPA has banned all uses of ...
Nonstick cookware industry sues over law banning cancer-causing chemicals
Not everyone is celebrating, of course. The Cookware Sustainability Alliance (CSA), a group advocating for the cookware ...
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FDA Finally Bans Red Dye No.3 from Food, Drinks and Medicines in US–Following Cancer Link
The decision comes after years of advocacy from organizations that point to evidence showing how RD3 has caused cancer in ...
EPA plans to phase out two common solvents, one that helped in the Space Race
The feds plan to ban two common solvents: one that cleansed NASA rockets, the other our clothes. Both fueled cancer fears in Brevard and elsewhere.
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Vermont welcomes new EPA ban on dry cleaning chemicals as cleanup continues
The cancer-causing chemicals TCE and PCE have been found at dozens of sites in Vermont that were home to dry cleaning ...
Denver health experts, parents support FDA move to ban Red 3
T he Food and Drug Administration has revoked Red 3's authorization to be added to foods, over concerns about how the food ...