With spring comes gardening and, for many Minnesotans, with gardening comes pesticides. Use the Clean Water Action Pesticide Toolkit to know what to do in the case of pesticide exposure. The Toolkit also leads you to less harmful alternatives to pesticides.

Pesticides have become a common tool used to beautify our yards, landscaping and gardens. Unfortunately, most pesticides are also toxic chemicals that carry a burden of adverse health affects for our children, elderly and pets – even our strongest and healthiest can be severely harmed by pesticides.

Ask General Mills if they’ll phase out BPA

Contact General Mills today and ask them when they will phase out BPA in all their canned product lines.

General Mills brand Muir Glen recently announced they are transitioning to BPA-free can liners for their tomato products this year. While this is great news, other General Mills canned food brands, Progresso and Cascadian Farms, continue to use BPA can linings.

Unfortunately, the majority of our canned food is lined with BPA, the estrogenic chemical linked to diabetes, lowered sperm count, prostate cancer, and other health effects. This toxic chemical has been shown to leach out of the can lining into canned foods and liquids. Due to this exposure, the majority of Americans have BPA in our bodies from BPA can liners and other sources.