Steven Hentges, Ph.D

According to the headline of a recent Bloomberg story, “Trader Joe’s to Remove Controversial Chemicals From Receipts.”  In particular, as noted in its… Read More

If you search the term “detox” on the internet you’ll find more than a few results.  In particular, Google returned about 161,000,000 results this afternoon. … Read More

Have you seen any BPA-Free labels lately? You know what I mean – the ones that appear on the packaging of all manner of foods and consumer products, often with green imagery to let you know that the product is safe for you and the environment. Have you ever wondered what exactly those labels mean?  If your answer to either of those questions is yes, you’ve probably been misinformed.   Read More

Whether you’re interested in BPA or not, you might at least want to know what are the facts about BPA safety.  For some time, BPA… Read More

If you browse around on this website, you’ll quickly find the answer to the first question. The most common way we encounter BPA is… Read More

It sometimes seems not a day goes by without another article on the internet announcing 5, 7 or even more reasons not to drink out of plastic water bottles. That recommendation could only make sense if the reasons are valid, and this is where the articles come up dry. With the three reasons below, you can safely ignore the 5, 7, or more reasons in so many other articles and continue to drink out of plastic bottles to your heart’s content. Read More

Last week Health Canada released an anticipated report with important new data on exposure of Canadians to a variety of chemicals. It’s important because… Read More

The days of river pollution causing fires are long over. These days Americans almost take it for granted that the rivers, streams and lakes around… Read More

Dust is commonly defined as the fine, dry particles of matter that are present anywhere matter is present. It’s pretty much everywhere, including the ubiquitous… Read More

Due to years of attention to bisphenol A (BPA), used primarily to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, there is now quite a bit of… Read More