Today, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families joined with 35 local, state, and national groups in sending a letter to the White House calling on the president to fulfill his campaign commitment to tackle PFAS by “prioritizing substitutes through procurement.”
Joining forces with Toxic-Free Future
I am so excited to welcome supporters of Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store to our organization through our recent integration. Building on your support, we joined forces to achieve our shared mission: to protect your health and the health of our planet from harmful chemicals and pollution.
Bipartisan bill to ban PFAS chemicals in food containers introduced in Congress today
The Keep Food Containers Safer from PFAS Act would ban the use of toxic PFAS in food containers and cookware and empowers the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to deem PFAS substances in any food containers or cookware as unsafe. The bill gives the FDA until 2022 to enforce this ban.
