The chief aim of this paper is to examine the present state of environmental pollutants in the food subject area of family and consumer sciences textbooks for senior high school level. First, the author showed how course of study and textbooks for senior high school students deal with environment pollutants in the food subject area. Second, after considering their contents from the viewpoints of food life, books and experimental reports that deal with environmental pollutants were reviewed and good points for the development study materials for environmental pollutants were found. The author proposes learning materials on environmental pollutants in the food subject area of family and consumer sciences textbooks for senior high school level as follows; We should consider the fact that we have been taking meals containing environmental pollutants, It is necessary to connect the contents of environmental pollutants with nutrition. In addition, the present study suggested that an application of experimental research in the family and consumer sciences textbooks or in the learning materials for the family and consumer sciences is not easy.