What is ewg

Department of Agriculture testing results on the twelve fruits or vegetables with the highest pesticide residues; EWG presents the results as a reason to switch to organic food. Environmental Working Group is one of the leading pressure groups opposing modern agricultural practices including the use of gene technology to improve crop performance.

While EWG claims the safety of these technologies is not proven, the National Academy of Sciences has found no difference in safety between ordinary foods and those produced using these technologies.

Environmental Working Group does not fully disclose its donors. The organization provides a partial breakdown of its support on its website with a list of some foundation supporters and a pie chart showing support from individuals, foundations, and corporations and revenue from consulting and investments. EWG receives substantial support from foundations, including donor-advised funds. Other foundation contributions to EWG pass through donor-advised funds, vehicles that donors may use to preserve their anonymity.

Ken Cook is the founder and president of Environmental Working Group. Faber has lobbied for environmentalist groups American Rivers and Environmental Defense Fund before taking a lobbying position with the Grocery Manufacturers Association. The FDA has published a handy chart , depicting which fish we should eat and which we should avoid.

The EWG, of course, distorts this information. For example, EWG says that pregnant women "should limit or avoid" canned light tuna. The FDA disagrees, saying that pregnant women can safely eat 2 to 3 servings per week.

This is like saying "chemicals. Nonstick materials. The EWG is conducting a war on Teflon and other nonstick materials. They don't like the molecule perfluorooctanoic acid, which is possibly toxic and used to make Teflon. The same will be true of other polymers and the PFCs polyfluorinated compounds from which they are derived.

The EWG misleadingly calls perchlorate a component of "rocket fuel. The FDA recommends that drinking water contain less than 15 ppb perchlorate, and it also says that a study showed that people's perchlorate consumption was less than the current EPA reference dose i. The EPA will set additional guidelines by the end of October Both conventional and organic pesticides are safe, as long as they are applied at or below approved levels. Phthalates are used to make flexible tubes.

Like BPA, they won't disrupt your endocrines. The EWG is right to be opposed to triclosan but for the wrong reasons. Once again, EWG is worried about your endocrines being disrupted. That's nonsense. The amounts of pesticide residues ingested are so small, relative to levels that have been shown to have toxicological effects, they are toxicologically implausible as health risks.

Finances Related People Donations. Phthalates in Pregnancy Most expecting mothers constantly question whether various things they do or consume during their pregnancy will have a negative effect on their newborns. Paraben Scare EWG has also launched a fear mongering campaign against parabens- the most widely used preservatives in cosmetics. Organic Agenda The EWG has long argued in favor of organic agriculture, claiming that pesticides are a danger to our health and a horrible threat to humanity.

Superbug Scare The Environmental Working Group also has a nasty habit of overstating other risks associated with farming and livestock rearing.

Vice President for Public Affairs. Co-founder, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Director of Government Relations lobbyist. Form Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Barbra Streisand Foundation. Bauman Family Foundation. Brainerd Foundation. Bullitt Foundation. California Endowment. California Wellness Foundation. Charles Engelhard Foundation.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation. David B. Gold Foundation. Educational Foundation of America. Environment Now Foundation. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. Fiduciary Charitable Foundation. Fred Gellert Family Foundation. George Gund Foundation. Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. German Marshall Fund of the U. Glaser Progress Foundation. Global Environment Project Institute. Heinz Family Foundation.

Henry Luce Foundation. James Irvine Foundation.