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Successes

Launched the EWG Healthy Living app

August, 2016

EWG heard its supporters loud and clear. Time and again, we’ve been asked to package our advice and consumer guides so our followers can use them on the go and make better choices every time they shop.

And now they can, thanks to EWG’s new Healthy Living app.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Toxics
Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Cleaning Products

Galvanized support for Calif. cleaning products bill

May, 2016

EWG has been working for years to close the labeling loophole that allows ingredients in cleaning products – including some that are potentially harmful – to remain undisclosed. The Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2016 would strip away the secrecy shrouding the chemicals used to make most cleaners.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Consumer Products
Cleaning Products

Launched the 10th annual guide to sunscreens

May, 2016

EWG launched its 10th annual guide to sunscreens, which found that almost three-fourths of 750 sunscreens reviewed provided inferior protection or contained worrisome ingredients.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Sunscreens

Led opposition to $10B in cotton farming subsidies

April, 2016

EWG led the fight to keep $10 billion in taxpayer dollars from subsidizing the cotton industry.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Farming
Subsidies

Released study on overabundance of mercury in women’s hair

March, 2016

EWG tested hair samples from 254 women in 40 states who ate two or more seafood meals per week – about the same as recommendations under consideration by the FDA and EPA. The tests found that nearly 30 percent of women tested exceeded the current EPA safety guideline for mercury exposure during pregnancy.

 

 

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Mercury
Food
Chemicals in Food

EWG VERIFIED™ reached shelves nationwide

March, 2016

EWG VERIFIED™ now features 118 products, allowing shoppers to quickly and easily identify cosmetics and personal care items that meet our strictest health and transparency standards.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Consumer Products

Released 2 eye-opening agriculture reports

February, 2016

“Fooling Ourselves: Voluntary Programs Fail to Clean Up Dirty Water” continued our push for mandatory farming standards, while “Crop Insurance: A Lottery That’s a Sure Bet” revealed that crop insurance is not insurance at all, but just another way to subsidize industrial agriculture.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Farming
Subsidies
Crop Insurance

Launched Farm Subsidy Database for mobile

February, 2016

EWG’s Farm Subsidy Database documents why free-spending federal crop insurance subsidies need substantive reform. The database is now mobile optimized for the first time in its nearly 20-year history.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Farming
Subsidies

Uncovered vast anti-GMO labeling lobbying efforts

February, 2016

An EWG investigation found that anti-GMO labeling interests spent over $100 million on K Street lobbying since 2014.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
Farming
Food
GMO Foods

Kept the DARK Act out of end-of-year spending bill

January, 2016

Due in-part to EWG’s relentless supporters and staff, the DARK Act was left out of the end-of-2015 omnibus spending bill.

Key Issues, Toxics, Health Concerns: 
GMO Foods