Isn't it so sad that in this day and age, we need to refer to lists of thumbs up/thumbs down items in order to prevent our families from getting slowly poisoned with chemicals. Nothing can be left to common sense anymore...and it's a wonder that parents can ever get a sound night of sleep with all the concerns floating out there. Your better and best list reminds me of the list of the most notorious pesticide-contaminated fruits and vegetables released by the Environmental working group. All of this nonsense would seize to exist if food and consumer products were produced exclusively using organic methods. Instead, our addiction to chemicals and higher yields has unleashed an environmental and health-compromising monster.

Children have the most to lose when toxins are in our food, our air, our water and now . . .products used on them. Thank goodness we can get a list of what to use, what NOT to use.

To combat the toxic effects of the above horrors, I do a total-body nutritional cleanse - a little each day to remove impurities from my body.

I am glad we have organizations like Environmental Working Group to help us through this maze of who is doing what to our food, our water, our air.

I read a lot about water bottles not fit to use. What about filtered water from the tap & stored in a hard plastic unit untill used to drink. I wonder where the correct gov. department is. Tap water is not good and buying bottled water is a crap shoot,as we have no idia where it was bottled. I could use some input in this inquary no BS.
Bob

Great topic. instead of inform on what we can't use we need to know what we can use. I will check that list out.

I posted this on the FAN page of the EWG facebook wall (no EWG comments yet...too bad)

From the Skin Deep database: "
A hazard rating of "low concern" (shown as a green circle in Skin Deep) might be rated in that category because of definitive data proving its safety, or because of a near absence of any safety studies that would illuminate hazards. The data gap rating helps site users know the difference,... and to buy products with low hazard concerns backed up by safety data."

Has there been any consideration given to assigning an "X" or "NA" rating to products whose ingredients have a large data gap? As I am sure you know, there are companies who are marketing that their products are safe, even "the safest" based completely on having a "ZERO" rating in the Skin Deep database...and in almost all of these it is not because their products ingredients are actually safer, it is because the ingredients have a 94-100% data gap. No data should not equal SAFE!

I am questioning the use of "phenoxyethanol" in practically every product from Dawn dish detergent to high priced face creams. Is it safe? Why has it been banned in Japan? Also why are our so called "healthy products" such as Motts apple juice, Tropicana orange etc. using produce (apples, oranges) from China, Venezuela, Brasil etc.? Are the regulations in these countries the same as ours regarding the use of pesticides on the fruit trees?

I called the Motts company only to be told that the factories in China follow the same strict regulations as the U.S.A. Also because these fruits are seasonal they are more readily available in other countries.

Great information. Pesticides are slowly killing us and we need to do all that we can to protect our health.