The Breast Cancer Fund in the News

• 07.26.10

  How safe are cosmetics? New bill wants to find out (AOL News, 7/21/2010)

  "Most people assume the FDA regulates cosmetics the same way it does food and drugs to ensure they are safe. In reality, cosmetics are one of the least-regulated consumer products on the market today."

• 07.26.10

  The ugly side of beauty, some cosmetics can be toxic (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/20/2010)

  "Much like the tobacco industry, which denied for years the mounting body of evidence that smoking caused cancer and emphysema, the global $300 billion cosmetics industry argues that toxic ingredients are absorbed in such small amounts they have no dangerous effect."

• 07.26.10

  Bill calls for stricter rules on cosmetics (Chicago Tribune, 7/21/2010)

  The Safe Cosmetics Act made headlines last week, as the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives. The Chicago Tribune broke the story and quoted our own Lisa Archer.

• 07.01.10

  Walking away from kids' health: Legislators duck vote on bill to ban chemical from baby products (San Francisco Chronicle, 7/1/2010)

  Check out this powerful editorial (excerpted below) that calls out the 13 California Assembly members who abstained from voting in support of the Breast Cancer Fund-sponsored BPA bill. It's up for a final vote today.

• 06.22.10

  Lobbyist "fear tactics" to fight BPA ban seem to be working (California Watch, 6/22/10)

  The chemical and pharmaceutical lobbyists are at it again, and this time, the California bill that would ban the synthetic hormone bisphenol A, or BPA, from baby bottles and infant food containers hangs in the balance. Investigative journalist Christina Jewett explains...

• 06.15.10

  Clermont breast-cancer survivor to climb Mount Shasta (Orlando Sentinel, 6/15/10)

  "She questions whether her cancer is connected to her home's close proximity to the former Tower Chemical site in Clermont, which was poisoned by toxic chemicals and pesticides in the 1980s and placed in the Superfund program for the nation's most-hazardous sites."

• 05.27.10

  The Plastic Panic (The New Yorker, 5/31/10)

  In The Plastic Panic, an expansive article this week in The New Yorker, Jerome Groopman writes that BPA "may be among the world’s most vilified chemicals." So why are federal regulators still undecided about whether to ban it in food packaging?

• 05.19.10

  Burlington woman climbs for breast cancer prevention (Burlington Free Press, 5/19/10)

  Lindsey Stair, 24, a member of the Breast Cancer Fund's 2010 Climb Against the Odds expedition, did a Q&A session with her local paper, Burlington Free Press, about her upcoming climb of Mt. Shasta. On Saturday, May 22, Lindsey will...

• 05.10.10

  Remembering Mom with a climb to the top of the world (Contra Costa Times, 5/7/10)

  On June 16, Whitney Pond of Danville, Calif., will join a team of 26 women and men in a expedition to the summit of Mt. Shasta with the Breast Cancer Fund's 2010 Climb Against the Odds. The 16 year old...

• 05.06.10

  Americans "bombarded" with cancer sources: report (Reuters, 5/6/2010)

  "The 40-year war on cancer has been called for what it is ... a failure"