- Toxic food packaging at the grocery store?
New laboratory testing reveals PFAS likely in Albertsons’s popcorn packaging, dental floss, & other products There’s nothing like spending an evening on the couch with our families, binge-watching the Great British Baking Show and passing around a bowl of scrumptious popcorn. But that popcorn may be carrying a hidden hazard. ... - Washington Attorney General compels Amazon to remove toxic school supplies – more action needed
Yesterday, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Amazon announced an important enforcement action that will keep brain-damaging lead and cancer-causing cadmium out of the hands and mouths of children. This follows an investigation that revealed consumers in Washington and across the country made at least 15,188 purchases of ... - Connecting the dots between plastic, mercury, asbestos and PFAS: A new report confirms PVC’s toxic lifecyclePlastics production imperils life on earth in many ways, from the pursuit of fossil fuels to the pollution of the oceans. All petrochemical plastics exact some toll in their manufacture. But there is one type of plastic that is particularly harmful: polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as vinyl or PVC. A ...
- A new resource: safer paint strippers for consumers and workers
There is a growing movement away from paint strippers that contain methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) because of serious health risks including developmental toxicity and even death. Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families’ Mind the Store campaign, together with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other coalition partners, have catalyzed this ... - Toxic paint strippers still available on Walmart.com, despite pledge to consumersAmazon moves quickly to remove toxic paint strippers for sale on its website Over the past year, our Mind the Store campaign and coalition partners at NRDC won commitments from 13 top home improvement, big box, and auto-parts retailers to ban the sale of paint removal products containing the hazardous ...
- Toxic paint strippers: Ace Hardware (finally) acts; Trump EPA stallsOn Monday, Ace Hardware Corporation became the 13th U.S. retailer to publicly commit to stop selling and distributing paint removers that contain the toxic chemicals methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP). This latest commitment comes after a sustained campaign by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families’ ...
- Home improvement chain Menards joins the growing chorus of retailers banning dangerous paint strippersToday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel broke the news that Menards has become the latest retailer to phase out the sale of paint strippers containing the dangerous chemicals methylene chloride and NMP. The company has over 300 stores across 14 states. Menards’ new commitment comes on the heels of a new ...
- Buyer beware: dangerous paint strippers still sold at The Home Depot, AutoZone and other stores
In 2018, we won a wave of commitments from eleven of North America’s largest retailers to ban the sale of paint strippers containing the toxic chemicals methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP). How are these policies being implemented? To see how these retailer policy commitments have been implemented, campaign staff, partner organizations ... - Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s pledge initial action on toxic PFAS
Yesterday, our new report revealed that toxic PFAS chemicals are hiding in common takeout packaging and other food contact materials at some of the nation’s largest and most popular grocery stores. When used in food packaging, these harmful chemicals can leach out of the packaging and get into the food ... - New study finds nonstick PFAS chemicals in takeout packaging at top grocery stores
Study shows PFAS-free alternatives widely available and in use (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Takeout food packaging from several leading U.S. grocery stores is likely treated with harmful PFAS chemicals, according to a new study released today by Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Toxic-Free Future. PFAS are highly persistent and toxic chemicals ...