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Survey results show that 33% of mothers and guardians are not aware of how to protect their children from lead. So, One Voice launched community education events, including the retrofit of local childcare center with toxic-free training and new paint.

A Mobile Food Market program partnered to provide in-home support to expectant and current mothers and babies from low-income families as well as local and organic produce.

Residents and leaders in Lynn, MA, are working together to address food insecurity by bolstering its Farmers Market and services to aid pregnant women and young children.

Top baby foods are contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, with amounts of arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury routinely found in excess of recommended limits, according to a new review of baby-food companies’ internal testing by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. The Congressional study was launched after Healthy Babies Bright Futures’ 2019 study finding heavy metals in 95% of baby foods tested drew widespread attention to the problem. All but nine of the 168 tested

Bright City Cleveland is focusing on three actions to help reduce lead and tobacco exposures — because 2020 reconfirmed and accelerated their laser focus on equity and health.

Yesterday, the USEPA released their update to the drinking water regulation called the Lead and Copper Rule.

To keep kids healthy, the City of San Francisco took a hands-on approach to reducing exposure to flame retardants in child care centers and family homes that serve the most vulnerable children.

One of every seven homes has lead amounts high enough to erase half an IQ point – or up to several points in some homes – for a baby drinking formula made with tap water.

For women who are pregnant (or thinking about getting pregnant), the FDA recently made important recommendations to avoid dental repair that uses amalgams made with mercury.

The Mack Park Food Farm replaced an unused baseball practice area at a city park in Salem, MA, and is a pragmatic model for other cities’ sustainable healthy food initiatives.