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Jennifer Canvasser

Tired of waiting

I joined the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Stroller Brigade in DC to advocate for safer chemicals in honor of my twin boys, Micah and Zachary. After three years of struggling with infertility, my husband and I were ecstatic to have twins on the way. Unfortunately, our boys were born three months early and weighed less than 3 pounds at birth.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, cancer, chemicals, children, Congress, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, health, ICU, infertility, lobbying, medical community, mom, phthalates, policy, pregnancy, products, reform, retailers, safer chemicals, stroller brigade, toxic, toxic chemicals, Washington DC, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Keep up with the times, Congress!

It’s been decades since the Flashdance legwarmer craze, and thousands of new chemicals have been created since the 80s for products we use every day, most of them untested for long-term safety.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: action, anne brock, cancer, Chemical Safety Improvement Act, chemicals, Congress, environmental, EPA, exposure, families, FlourSackMama, health, Jennifer Beals, lobbying, parents, phthalates, policy, products, reform, retailers, stroller brigade, toxic, toxic chemicals, Washington DC, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Dr. Yolanda Whyte speaks to the ‘Stroller Brigade’

As a pediatrician, I recognize this issue is vast. We’re exposed to chemicals in our products, homes, places of work and in our communities and we need a strong federal system that takes into account all of these exposures and adequately protects our children.

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: action, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, American Society of Reproductive Medicine, cancer, chemicals, children's health, Congress, doctors, Dr. Yolanda Whyte, environmental, environmental justice, EPA, exposure, families, health, hot spots, medical community, National Medical Association, pediatrician, phthalates, policy, products, reform, retailers, stroller brigade, toxic, toxic chemicals, Toxic Substances Control Act, vulnerable populations, Washington DC, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

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