Last week, the President’s Cancer Panel released a new 200-page study that calls for stricter regulation of chemicals that cause cancer, which are routinely found in everyday consumer products.

They also recommend steps we can take as consumers, such as buying organic food, checking radon levels in our homes, filtering drinking water, and avoiding plastic containers that contain BPA.

The President’s Cancer Panel is about as mainstream as you can get. It is a small group of three experts who review America’s cancer program and report directly to the President.

Read more about the report at New York Times: New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer.

Read the report at National Cancer Institute: Presiden’ts Cancer Panel Annual Report 2008-2009: Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk–What We Can Do Now