Increased support for organic agriculture, the fastest growing sector of the agriculture industry. Cutting wasteful spending to profitable large farm operations, absentee landlords, ‘hobby’ farmers. In the 2007 Farm Bill, EWG is advocating for: The information is obtained directly from the United States Department of Agriculture via Freedom of Information Act requests. Only 17% of the products on the market are both safe and effective, blocking both UVA and UVB radiation, remaining stable in sunlight, and containing few if any ingredients with significant known or suspected health hazards.ĮWG operates the farm subsidy database, an online searchable database of recipients of taxpayer funded agriculture subsidy payments. The investigation revealed that 83% of 911 sunscreen products offer inadequate protection from the sun, or contain ingredients with significant safety concerns. In June of 2007, EWG updated Skin Deep with a report on sunscreen toxicity. The database is intended as a resource for consumers, who can search by ingredient or product when choosing personal care products. Skin Deep is a cosmetics safety database which pairs ingredients in over 27,000 products against 50 toxicity and regulatory databases. The organization investigates and publishes information regarding oil and gas drilling and Mining projects that may pose a threat to human health and the environment. fruits and vegetables), and organic agriculture. The EWG Action Fund advocates for farm bill reform in the form of decreased disaster payments and subsidies for commodity crops, and increased funding for nutrition programs, conservation, specialty crops (i.e. Their work has extended to a variety of other chemicals, including Bisphenol A, Perchlorate, Mercury (element), flame retardants, and Arsenic in treated wood.ĮWG publishes a database of agricultural subsidies and their recipients. The organization has also constructed a national database of tap water testing results from public water utilities. 
A series of studies testing for the presence of chemicals in people's bodies is known as Body burden. Their Guide to Pesticides in Produce lists 44 fruits and vegetables based on the number of pesticides they were found to contain according to USDA data. ĮWG has created a cosmetics safety database which indexes and scores products based on their ingredients. 52% of EWG's resources go to toxic chemicals and human health.
3.1 Involvement in reprimand of John Stossel by ABCĮWG works on three main policy or issue areas: toxic chemicals and human health farming and Agricultural subsidies and public lands and Natural resources.
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