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Your Body Your Rights
For too long, citizens have been made to accept chemical assaults as simply an unavoidable hazard of everyday living. But when you think about this, it’s clear that toxic chemicals have more rights than you or your loved ones. Chemicals are allowed to maim and kill tens of thousands of persons, causing cancer, reproductive harm, and loss of IQ yet are almost never locked up. This reality is a symptom of a sick system and is why so many persons today are sick, too.
Healthy Living Foundation is fighting to establish your human right to be protected against chemical assaults and to know about the hazardous compounds found in our foods, beverages, and consumer products. We believe in zero tolerance for chemicals that cause cancer or reproductive harm.
A GUIDE TO THE LEGAL CASES
HEALTHY LIVING TAKES ON THE NATION’S Seafood INDUSTRY
Seafood can be dangerous to the human fetus when it contains high amounts of heavy metals. The cases that HLF has taken on involve amounts of lead in one meal that supply more than 10 times the amount in a single glass of the most contaminated drinking water from Flint, Michigan, at the height of its crisis. None of the companies are complying with California law that is designed to protect the fetus. California law requires them to disclose that their products contain harmful amounts of lead and cadmium that could cause reproductive harm. But they aren’t.
One particular offender, Goya Foods, continued to violate California law even when the HLF notifed them of their violation. The group through its counsel explained to the company that all of its competitors were offering warnings and that the amount of lead in their products would harm the fetus not only when consumed regularly but even once at a meal.
In one analysis, the product was found to supply 15.5 micrograms of lead and 11.8 mcg cadmium. The safe harbor in California is .5 mcg lead and 4.1 mcg cadmium. This makes these products among the most horrendous sources of heavy metal poisons in the US market.
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I began the Healthy Living Foundation in 2012 in California at a time when, as an individual citizen, I sued Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea, Crown Prince, and other major seafood brands for selling canned shellfish products with harmful amounts of lead and cadmium. Those legal actions resulted in consent judgements (CJs) between the companies and the HLF to label their products (prior to purchase) for their hazardous heavy metals. The CJs also required extensive, devoted oversight in the future to ensure these companies’ compliance. A non-government organization or, in this case, nonprofit, would do the job most efficiently. I’m proud to be the chief officer of the HLF and that we have celebrated ten years of devoted public service.
Since then, the HLF has been at the forefront in consumer advocacy in California, New York, and Washington, D.C. going well beyond the entire shellfish category(which we also still police).
Its mission is to eliminate carcinogens and reproductive toxins from food and consumer products. The foundation represents the vision of creating a movement of anti-toxic activists who make their voices heard by their informed shopping choices.