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Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act

Even worse, they've only banned or restricted five of those chemicals. And, despite enormous advances in our scientific understanding of the connection between chemicals and disease, TSCA has not been updated since it was passed in 1976.

Congressional Action

On April 14, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), a longtime champion for the reform of TSCA, introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011.

• Ask your Senators to co-sponsor the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011.

The Breast Cancer Fund supports the Safe Chemicals Act because it provides:

• Quick action on the chemicals we already know are bad for human health and the environment
• Basic safety information on ALL chemicals in commerce, with industry bearing the burden of proof to show that chemicals are safe
• A health standard that will truly protect the public, including our most vulnerable citizens: our children

Together with our colleagues in the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition, the Breast Cancer Fund is advocating for chemical management reform laws that will finally give the EPA the tools it needs to truly protect public health, helping to prevent not only breast cancer, but many other diseases as well.