Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and the Mind the Store campaign fight for strong chemical policy, work with retailers to phase out hazardous chemicals, and educate the public about ways to protect our families from toxic chemicals. Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store are programs of Toxic-Free Future.
Our mission
- Policy: Safer Chemicals Healthy Families supports strong federal and state policies that protect the public from toxic chemicals.
- Retailers: The Mind the Store campaign works to transform the marketplace by winning comprehensive corporate policies that eliminate toxic chemicals.
- Education: Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store develop content and advocate for a public that can use its power as citizens and consumers effectively.
Our work
We collaborate with hundreds of organizations and businesses. Our work is united by our common concern about toxic chemicals in our homes, workplaces, schools and products we use every day.
Our founder
Safer Chemicals Healthy Families was founded in 2009 by environmental health trailblazer Andy Igrejas. Andy built a diverse coalition of hundreds of organizations and businesses that worked together to reform our nation’s broken chemical safety system, which resulted in Congress’s 2016 update to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). He conceived our Mind the Store campaign as a tactic to drive the chemical industry to the table in our fight for this reform for fear of losing market share at retail. Andy passed away in 2018 and we miss him dearly. Our staff and coalition partners honor his legacy by carrying on this work.
Our accomplishments
Learn about some of our successes.
Offices
Washington, DC
200 Massachusetts Ave NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20001
New York
109 S William St
Newburgh, NY 12550
Washington
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 540
Seattle, WA 98103