The Breast Cancer Fund in the News

• 12.08.11

  Five Things You Should Know About Environmental Links to Breast Cancer (Forbes, 12/7/2011)

  Amy Westervelt's Forbes.com piece does a great job of parsing through the intricacies of the Institute of Medicine's new report. Here's an excerpt, with a quote from our president and CEO, Jeanne Rizzo...

• 11.30.11

  Campaign gets companies to make safer cosmetics (Associated Press, 11/30/2011)

  More than 400 cosmetics companies have removed chemicals linked to disease from their products under the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics' seven-year effort to shift the market toward safer products, reports the Associated Press.

• 11.17.11

  Johnson & Johnson, amid activists' push, steadily removing toxic chemicals from baby products (Associated Press, 11/16/2011)

  Iconic baby shampoo maker J&J has committed to removing formaldehyde-releasing preservatives from its baby products worldwide, under pressure from the Breast Cancer Fund's Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

• 11.15.11

  The BPA lurking in your Thanksgiving dinner (Fast Company, 11/15/2011)

  Fast Company published a great blog about our BPA in Thanksgiving Canned Food report, out yesterday.

• 11.01.11

  Groups push J&J on baby shampoo chemicals (Associated Press, 11/1/2011)

  A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund's Campaign for Safe Cosmetics reveals that Johnson's Baby Shampoo sold in some countries contains a formaldeyhde-releasing preservative, while formulations of the product sold in other countries use safer alternatives.

• 10.28.11

  Breast cancer awareness should be a year-round event (Huffington Post, 10/27/2011)

  Mounting scientific evidence links exposure to everyday chemicals -- in our food, our products, our air and our water -- to breast cancer.

• 10.25.11

  Pink Inc. has many starting to see red (Sacramento Bee, 10/23/2011)

  Now, Ann avoids the parade of pink walkers and product promotions. She feels they trumpet a superficial notion of "awareness," even if some groups do good things with the money raised and promote great solidarity among survivors and families.

• 10.13.11

  Chemical industry shifts on BPA after spending millions to fight legislation (New York Times, 10/12/2011)

  ACC had doggedly insisted that BPA is safe, and the group has fought fiercely against federal and state legislative proposals to ban the chemical, which public health advocates have linked to a hormonal disruption and other developmental problems in children.

• 10.07.11

  BPA in Kids' Canned Food report media roundup (9/21/2011-9/24/2011)

  The Breast Cancer Fund report, BPA in Kids' Canned Food, generated attention across the country when we released it on September 21.

• 10.04.11

  Could BPA predispose girls to breast cancer? (California Watch, 10/4/2011)

  An important new study demonstrates that BPA exposure in utero and through nursing appears to alter mammary tissue in such a way that predisposes the breast to later-life breast cancer.