Subscribe with Feedburner

SafeMama Sponsors

Fellow Safe Mamas

Grab Our Badge!

Missions We Support

GoGoShopper.com: Daily Coupons

PR Web Coupons

Know you are protected with great local car insurance

baby shower decorations

Category: Articles

Holiday Safety Tips From SafeMama

Posted on: Dec 16, 2011

Filed Under Articles, Healthy Holidays | 4 Comments

Pin It

Hey everyone! Are you all getting jingled out like I am? My preparations are almost done and now the kids are off from school. They even slept late this morning so they are all revived and ready to drive me nutty! But I secretly love it. We have cookies to bake and neighbor gifts to [...]

General Mills Muir Glen Ditching BPA in Canned Tomatoes But…

Posted on: Nov 3, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Bisphenol-A | 12 Comments

Pin It

I ran over an article at the same time that my friend from Ely Organics did on Facebook and we were questioning the accuracy of the information. So of course we started digging around and I decided to give Muir Glen a call to get clarification. Or at least as much clarification as a helpful [...]

Study Finds Lead In Kids Drinks

Posted on: Jun 14, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Food Safety | 37 Comments

Pin It

One of our wonderful readers emailed me about this over the weekend (Thanks Vanessa!) and of course I was all over it, checking it out. I’m not the first to report on it but I felt it warranted SafeMama attention. A study done by the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) revealed that a large number of [...]

Toxic America Premiers Tonight on CNN

Posted on: Jun 2, 2010

Filed Under Articles | Comments Off

Pin It

I don’t usually post about television here on SafeMama but I thought this was particularly relevent, and exciting that this information is making it to CNN. A two part televised look at “Toxic America” – hosted by Sanjay Gutpa, MD, the medical correspondent for CNN. In the two part series, the first which debuts tonight [...]

New FDA Research Says Vitamin A Additive in Sunscreens May Speed Skin Tumors

Posted on: May 28, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Skin Care | 13 Comments

Pin It

Scary headline, huh? Some of you may have already read about this and I wish I had been able to post about it sooner but my kids are off from school and I’ve barely even had time to sit down let alone type. Anyway, recent research came to the surface from an FDA study that [...]

Government Bans DHA/ARA Additives in Organic Baby Formula

Posted on: May 18, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Food Safety | 23 Comments

Pin It

I have to thank Janelle from Healthy Child for reminding me to post about this. I read about it a few days ago and have been meaning to share it here. Since we published our Formula Analysis, it became evident that just about all organic baby formula uses the DHA/ARA additive using a controversial extraction [...]

Scientists Link Flame Retardants to Reduced Fertility

Posted on: Feb 1, 2010

Filed Under Articles | Comments Off

Pin It

We’ve covered the basics of flame retardants in the past. But new studies show that Flame Retardants may reduce Fertility. Epidemiologists from the University of California at Berkeley studied 223 pregnant women in California’s Salinas Valley, an agricultural community with predominantly low-income, Mexican immigrants. More than 97 percent of the women had PBDEs in their [...]

Study Links Non-stick Chemicals to Thyroid Illnesses

Posted on: Jan 22, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Chemicals, Food Safety | 1 Comment

Pin It

This is not shocking news to me. We wrote about safer cookware last year and the EWG has been hemming and hawing over PFOA‘s for years. A new study, done by British researchers found that people with high levels of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in their blood have higher rates of thyroid diseases — [...]

Cadmium in Children’s Jewelry

Posted on: Jan 12, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Toy Safety | Comments Off

Pin It

A few friends have mentioned this recent news to me and I’ve been meaning to talk about it here for a while. Children’s jewelry tends to pop up often in CPSC’s recall notices quite a bit due to lead. But now in the news is cadmium in childrens jewelry. Let’s talk about cadmium. Cadmium is [...]

Is your cell phone safe?

Posted on: Sep 15, 2009

Filed Under Articles | 5 Comments

Pin It

Remember when we were kids, phones were attached to the wall? You generally had one line for the whole house to share, and you had to practically cut the lines so your sister would let you use the phone already! Now we live in a day in age where just about everyone has a mobile [...]