About the Safer Products Project

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About the Safer Products Project

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Clean Production Action launched the Safer Products Project to generate

public support for safe chemicals. Our household dust study demonstrates that

hazardous chemicals, used widely in common household products, are

contaminating

household dust and presenting yet another exposure to dangerous chemicals.

Yet this is a totally avoidable situation. Companies can indeed replace these

chemicals of high concern with safer alternatives. But voluntary action by

innovative companies is not enough to remove hazardous chemicals from the

market. Our government has a responsibility to protect public health by

demanding

that the chemical industry start manufacturing chemicals that are safe for

the environment and human health.

Hazardous chemicals are regularly used as additives in consumer goods. Some

of these chemicals are known to be hazardous—yet our current system of

regulation allows them to continue to be brought into our homes in products.

As we

learn more about the risks of using toxic chemicals that persist and build

up in the environment, companies are finding ways to replace high concern

chemicals with safer alternatives.

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