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Rachel Sarnoff is executive director and CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World.
Rachel Sarnoff
Rachel Sarnoff is executive director and CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World.
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December 13, 2011
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org The Environmental Protection Agency is cleaning house. Last week, Administrator Lisa P. Jackson released hundreds of chemical studies , which were formerly kept secret from the public as confidential business information. This week, National Public Radio reported that the EPA released information on pollution violations at more than 1,600 power plants, which expose communities to benzene, formaldehyde, mercury and other hazardous chemicals. According to NPR, at least 300 of these—considered “high...
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December 5, 2011
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Last week, the news broke that Consumer Reports had found traces of arsenic in apple juice. Naturally, I was alarmed. Although we don’t keep juice in the house—limiting the selections to filtered water and organic milk—my kids do drink apple juice in restaurants and friend’s houses. Could I have unintentionally exposed them to poison? This was a question running through many parents’ minds last week. And although the amounts of arsenic discovered were low—10 parts per billion—they were still...
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November 28, 2011
By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.HealthyChild.org I’m so inspired by last week’s Grist profile on Mari Rose Taruc , an environmental activist and a mother of two asthmatic kids who saw the connection between pesticides and health first hand when she emigrated from the Philippines to a farming community in central California, and now works on environmental justice causes as the staff director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network. Talk about a Mom on a Mission ! The effect of pesticides on our health cannot be understated, and this month’s...
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November 22, 2011
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org I just tuned in to the webcast of last week’s Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on the 2011 Safe Chemicals Act . Scintillating stuff. No, really. Healthy Child Healthy World has been pushing for chemical management reform for nearly 20 years. On a daily basis, we can help parents understand how to reduce toxic chemical exposures, but without a better chemical management policy at the federal level, we’re just spitting in the wind. But back to the hearing, where things...
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November 14, 2011
By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org I first heard the term “Generation Rx” in a speech given by Allergy Kids Foundation’s Robyn O’Brien, a long-time supporter and now board member of Healthy Child Healthy World. The idea is especially relevant this week, as I read about new study published in Pediatrics that focused on the over-prescription of antibiotics to kids . Researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City analyzed nearly 65,000 pediatric visits from 2006 through 2008 and found that doctors prescribed an antibiotic...
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