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The Home Depot strorefront by Mike Mozart

The Home Depot announces new strategy to remove toxic chemicals in building products

Today, The Home Depot announced a new Chemical Strategy to remove harmful chemicals in building products such as paints, carpet, and flooring. The policy addresses dangerous chemicals like flame retardants, phthalates, and nonylphenol ethoxylates.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs), brominated flame retardant, carpet, formaldehyde, halogenated flame retardants, methylene chloride, nonylphenol exthoxylates (NPEs), organotins, paint stripper, paints, perfluorinated chemicals, phthalates, success, The Home Depot, Triclosan, vinyl chloride, vinyl flooring

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Beyond the Pink to Breast Cancer Prevention

Kristin Winchell’s mom was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 51. After aggressive treatment and a double mastectomy she was healthy for eight years. She only lived eight months after her second diagnosis of Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. “My mom always thought that the products on store shelves and the foods she ate were free of toxic chemicals.”

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Toxic Chemicals and the Rise of Childhood Cancer: What is the Relationship?

Listen to the teleconference: Toxic Chemicals and The Rise of Childhood Cancer: What’s the Relationship? https://saferchemicals.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/audio/cancer-tele-26jan11.mp3 Since 1975 cancer in American children has increased, especially childhood leukemia and brain cancer. Meanwhile, 80,000 chemicals have been produced in the U.S. to create commonly-used products, which include known carcinogens such as asbestos, formaldehyde, lead, cadmium, trichloroethylene, and […]

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