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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).

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: food, food packaging, grocery stores, PFAS, restaurants

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New study finds toxic chemicals in plastic gloves used at McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s

Harmful plasticizer chemicals in some food service gloves leach into food upon contact. Children and pregnant women are most vulnerable to harmful health effects.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Ecology Center, fast food, food, Mike Belliveau, phthalates, PVC, Leonardo Trasande, Burger King, McDonalds, Starbucks, Subway, Wendy's, Panera Bread, Lauren Olson, Ami Zota, food-handling gloves

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Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos!

Last week our allies achieved a big win for Americans’ health! A federal court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward with a ban on chlorpyrifos—a toxic pesticide known to harm children’s brains that is used on many different crops, including nuts, apples and berries—within 60 days.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: earthjustice, EPA, food, Learning Disabilities Association of America, NRDC, pesticides, pesticide action network north america, chlorpyrifos, Trump administration

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