David Steinman is an award-winning journalist who has written best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the environment and health. His work in the area of safe cosmetics, taken from the forthcoming book Raising Healthy Kids (Skyhorse Publishing, fall, 2023), is featured in the HBO Max documentary Not So Pretty.

His investigative reporting and writing have won awards from Best of the West, California Newspaper Publishers’ Association, Sierra Club, and the Green Book Festival.

He’s also the full-time chief officer of the non-profit Chemical Toxin Working Group (CTWG, also known as the Healthy Living Foundation), a public-interest environmental and consumer advocacy organization that takes legal action and litigates on behalf of consumers and the environment. CTWG has won major court and legal cases against brands such as Herbal Essences, Pantene, Chicken of the Sea, Bumble Bee, Alberto VO5, Trader Joe’s, and Mrs. Meyers for selling products with high amounts of toxic chemicals that required their removal or labeling.

Among his books:

Diet for a Poisoned Planet (Harmony, hardcover, 1990; Ballantine, softcover, 1992; Running Press, revised softcover edition, 2007); 

The Safe Shopper’s Bible (Macmillan, softcover, 1995; Wiley, 2001);

The Breast Cancer Prevention Program (Macmillan, hardcover, 1996; Macmillan, softcover);

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Running Press, softcover, 2007).