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Retailers have the power and a moral responsibility to ensure that consumer products and packaging are free of harmful chemicals. With great market power comes great responsibility. The Mind the Store campaign challenges the largest retailers to eliminate toxic chemicals in products and packaging and develop comprehensive safer chemicals policies. To protect families, communities, and workers, we are working to transform the marketplace and drive a competitive race to the top. Learn more.

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Beth Kemler / November 5, 2020

This Alabama resident is calling out McDonald’s for PFAS—and 70,000 people agree

Chemical plants that make toxic PFAS used in food packaging can pollute waterways that provide drinking water. Brenda Hampton knows all too well.

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Mike Schade / October 6, 2020

Retailers taking action on toxics: Target & CVS make progress, Walmart slides backward

In brief: Target and CVS Health made progress on phasing out toxic chemicals in their products, while Walmart’s chemical footprint grew by millions of pounds. Top highlights include: Target will phase out BPA, BPS, and all bisphenols from its thermal receipt paper by the end of 2020, and it made progress on PFAS in private-label […]

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Jen Dickman / August 10, 2020

How retailers can stop packaging food with “forever chemicals”

The Mind the Store Campaign, in partnership with Toxic-Free Future, has developed new guides for grocery and quick-service restaurant chains. We’re offering straightforward steps for chains to make sure their food packaging is truly free of all PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

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These chemicals are linked to serious environmental and health problems. Check out our fact sheets, which draw from the leading peer-reviewed science.

  • Bisphenol A (BPA) & Bisphenol S (BPS)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Methylene chloride
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (PBTs)
  • PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)
  • Phthalates
  • Toxic flame retardants
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