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Consumer looking at ingredients

How businesses are responding to rising demand for chemical transparency

The inevitable road to full ingredient disclosure

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Beverley Thorpe, business, chemical ingredients, chemicals, Clean Production Action, ingredient disclosure, the Chemical Footprint Project, transparency, Transparency is good for business, UL Purview, Wercs system

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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families congratulates Target on new chemical policy and goals, urges Amazon and other retailers to follow suit

Today Target announced a new chemical policy and goals. Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families’ Mind the Store campaign has challenged Target and other retailers to develop comprehensive policies to eliminate and substitute toxic chemicals.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Amazon, chemical policy, consumers, Costco, flame retardants, fragrance, PFCs, phthalates, retailers, safer alternatives, safer products, success, suppliers, Target, toxic chemicals, transparency

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Why you should be worried about toxic chemicals in fragrance

Chances are you are exposed to at least a dozen products that contain fragrance on a daily basis. Unfortunately we are unknowingly being exposed to potentially hundreds of chemicals as a result, some of which are toxic to our health.

Filed Under: Mind the Store, Policy & Regulation Tagged With: air fresheners, benzophenone, California Prop 65, candles, carcinogens, cologne, compliance, detergent, fragrance, Galaxolide, hormone disruptors, IFRA, IFRA standards, industry, International Fragrance Research Association, methyl eugenol, perfume, personal care products, phthalates, pyridine, regulation, Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, REXPAN, RIFM database, RIFM Expert Panel, safety standards, scent, shampoo, styrene, synthetic musk, Tonalide, transparency, volutary, Women's Voices for the Earth

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