Arsenic in apple juice. Apples, pears, and cherries on the Environmental Working Group’s latest “Dirty Dozen List.” Canned fruit contaminated with BPA, a chemical in the lining of cans. A dangerous synthetic pesticide—pick your specific agricultural chemical—should have its registration pulled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Brushfires of these and other similar media headlines aimed at all consumers, but with special impact on parents with young children, seemed ever present this past year. What to do about these and other future threatening flames? While some of the stories covered by newspapers, cable talk shows, social media, and the Internet […]