The California Legislature passed Senate Bill 646, the first law in the nation to require testing and public disclosure of toxic heavy metals in prenatal supplements. This landmark bill will protect maternal and fetal health by requiring manufacturers to test for and disclose levels of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead—substances that can impair neurodevelopment and cause other serious harms.
Contra Costa County, California, will likely become the first county to pass an ordinance improving the nutritional quality of the foods and beverages sold in the only place in the grocery store where customers must pass through and wait: the checkout aisles.
The undersigned organizations, including CSPI and representing patients, consumers, workers, health care providers, and more, urge Donald Trump to fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) immediately.