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Amazon announces ban on toxic chemicals and plastics in food packaging

PFAS, phthalates, BPA are among the dangerous chemicals Amazon Kitchen brands now prohibit. Amazon joins a growing trend of companies eliminating toxic chemicals in food packaging.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: 2-Ethoxyethanol, 2-Methoxyethanol, Amazon, bisphenols, BPA, Laurie Valeriano, maine, Mike Belliveau, Mike Schade, N-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP), perchlorate, PFAS, phthalates, plastic, polycarbonate plastic, polyhyrdoxyalkanoates (PHAs), polystyrene, polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), PVC, rigid polylactic acid (PLA), success, toluene, Washington state

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People-powered science: Send your bottle caps for toxics testing

Did you know that some bottle caps come with a toxic liner on the bottom? Yuck!

Bottle cap liners are used to form a seal against the bottle rim. And testing has found that many of these liners contain toxic chemicals called phthalates. The caps may leave phthalate residue on the bottle rim before you take a sip.🤢

What can you do? Send in your bottle caps for testing! We’re looking for caps from any beverage in a glass bottle—juice, iced tea, iced coffee, kombucha, wine, beer, soda, sparkling water, whatever!

Filed Under: Find Safer Products Tagged With: beverages, phthalates

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Dismantling racist systems includes the toxic beauty industry

Skin lightening creams with mercury. Hair relaxers with parabens and estrogenic chemicals. Douches and vaginal sprays with phthalates.

In the US, beauty products are largely unregulated. Everyone is at risk, but women of color face extra hazards from the products that are marketed to them. And these hazards pile on top of health disparities created by other systemic injustices.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Beauty Inside Out campaign, beauty products, Eurocentric beauty standard, hormone disruptors, Leslie Martinez, mercury, phthalates, products, racism, retailers, toxic chemicals, WE ACT

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