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Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBCreating a healthier, brighter, toxic-free future for all children. Since HBBF’s founding, we have: Led the charge to pressure major food brands, state-level WIC programs, and the FDA to take action on arsenic in infant rice cereals. Tested the tap water of more than 1,000 families for lead. Implemented more than 35 cities projects across the

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Healthy Baby Food Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBHealthy Baby Food. The chemicals found in baby food – arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury – are neurotoxins that can permanently alter the developing brain, erode IQ, and cause behavioral problems. Our 2019 study found that 95% of baby foods tested were contaminated with toxic heavy metals, starting a national conversation about the need

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About HBBF Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBWe measurably reduce babies’ exposure to toxic chemicals that harm brain development. We focus on chemicals with the strongest bodies of evidence supporting their role in developmental harm, such as lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium. HBBF leverages data-driven opportunities to reduce chemical exposures that harm babies’ brain development.

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HBBF Lead Test Kits for your Home

WEBWe are committed to helping every family test their water for lead. Choose the payment option that works for you: The kit cost is $47, with shipping. Below-cost kits may be available to community groups that need this option. Contact [email protected] to ask about this. 100% of proceeds cover the cost of the test kits, analysis, results

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Report: What’s in my Baby’s Food

WEBOur new study finds 95 percent of tested baby foods contain toxic chemicals that lower babies’ IQ, including arsenic and lead. What it means for babies’ health: The chemicals found in baby food – arsenic, lead, cadmium, and mercury – are neurotoxins that can permanently alter the developing brain, erode IQ, and affect behavior. Why baby foods …

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5 Cities Focusing on Climate and Health

WEB5 Cities Focusing on Climate and Health. Kyra Naumoff Shields, PhD. April 20/2021. Healthy Babies Bright Futures’ Bright Cities program works with city leaders to equitably safeguard all children's futures. Nearly 30 cities across the country have worked to mitigate air pollution, trained childcare providers and parents to reduce toxic

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How To Ensure Your WIC Program Supports Healthy Food Choices

WEBArsenic causes cancer and permanently harms babies’ brain development. Rice cereal is babies’ top source of arsenic exposure. This news tipped the scales for Oregon. It was time to act. Fortunately, this coincided with starting revisions to our WIC Food List. Typically it takes 9 to 12 months to complete a full review to revise the Food List.

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Bright Cities Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBLittle by little amounts to a lot. Cities can use our resources to build a brighter future for babies—one city at a time. From 2016 to 2024, the Bright Cities program presented cities with funding to integrate neurotoxic exposure reductions into their sustainability, health, and resilience planning —which builds communities that are safe for babies’ brains.

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Anchorage Shares Toxic-Free Childcare Training & Other Big Steps …

WEBAnchorage, AK, has scaled up nap mat education and replacement to have a measurable and positive impact on health of Alaska’s babies. They’ve been a Bright City since 2018, and have steadily and significantly grown strategies to …

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Pine Bluff, AR Planted Trees and Turned City Land into Gardens to

WEBPine Bluff, Arkansas, a city of approximately 41,253 residents located just south of Little Rock, implemented projects to support healthy brain development in children like planting trees, increasing access to organic produce, and reducing lead exposures.

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Blog Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBBecome “Caregivers of Mother Earth” to Reduce Neurotoxicants and Partner with Like-Minded Cities. We aim to reduce pesticide use that can impact the health of all the kids in our lives and share how to reduce our everyday exposure to toxicants. Learn more. Blog.

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Tree Planting in Ann Arbor to Better Children’s Health through Air

WEBAnn Arbor will continue to sponsor tree planting events to provide environmental and health benefits (e.g., reduced neurotoxic exposure, green stormwater infrastructure, etc.) in neighborhoods where these benefits are needed most.

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‘Best Babies Zone’ Reaches Community Members in Wilkinsburg, PA

WEBThe Best Babies Zone helps streamline collaboration of local health providers and community support services and serves as a catalyst for community-wide change.

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Do Mercury Dental Fillings in Pregnant Women Impact Their …

WEBFor 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. This is important, but not surprising, news. Mercury is a toxin that can do harm at any level of exposure.

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Community Advocates in Wilkinsburg, PA, Ensure Every Baby …

WEBWhat is the Best Babies Zone in Wilkinsburg? The Best Babies Zone engages the Wilkinsburg community by streamlining collaboration of local health–service providers and community

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$20,000 Healthy Babies Initiative Grant Award

WEBWe invite concise proposals from US cities to apply for a $20,000 grant for projects that aim to replicate, in a tailored fashion, one of the five projects in the RFP . Each project must equitably reduce air pollution, lead, or other neurotoxic exposures that harm children’s brain development, have resilience co-benefits, and leverage

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Dirty and Dangerous: Damages to Health from Coal-Fired …

WEBSUMMARY Burning coal for energy comes at a significant cost to human health. Coal’s serious adverse health impacts are broadly accepted by scientific and medical communities and include:

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New Report Finds Arsenic, Lead and Other Toxic …

WEBNew Report Finds Arsenic, Lead and Other Toxic Contaminants in 95% of Baby Foods Tested Higher Risk Foods for a Baby’s Developing Brain include Rice-Based Foods, Sweet Potatoes and Fruit Juices

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Contact Us Healthy Babies Bright Futures

WEBOur Focus Areas. Our work measurably reduces the largest sources of babies’ exposures to toxic chemicals that harm brain development. We target chemicals with the strongest body of evidence supporting their role in developmental harm.

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