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TJX announces new restrictions on toxic chemicals as part of new chemicals strategy

Recently, TJX—the parent company of TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Home Goods, and Sierra Trading Post—announced on its website it is developing an expanded “Chemical Management” strategy. The new program, which follows more than three years of advocacy by the Mind the Store campaign, Clean Water Action, Trillium Asset Management, First Affirmative Financial Network, and the Investor Environmental Health Network, takes an important step forward towards protecting customers, workers, and the environment from toxic chemical exposure, and paves the way for future action. 

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, BPA, BPS, Clean Water Action, PVC, chemical footprint project, Who's Minding the Store? retailer report card, TJX Companies, PFAS, success, Don't Take That Receipt!, First Affirmative Financial Network, Trillium Asset Management, Investor Environmental Health Network

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

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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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