Make Our Products Safe
The products we use every day contain toxic chemicals that have been linked to breast cancer and other diseases. But the Breast Cancer Fund is working hard to change that, and to change the system that let it happen in the first place. We’re focusing our efforts on making products safe through strategic policy initiatives, both at the state and federal level. Here are some of the things we’re working on:
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Cans Not Cancer
Learn about our market campaign to get BPA out of canned food, policy solutions and the facts about BPA.
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Making Cosmetics Safe
In addition to co-founding the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, we're advocating for federal legislation that will ensure the safety of personal care products.
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Protecting Kids from BPA
BPA is a problem for Americans of all ages, but babies are especially vulnerable.
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Revealing What's in Cleaning Products
Exercise your right to know what the labels of household cleaning products won't tell you.
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Ensuring Non-toxic Toys
The Breast Cancer Fund mobilized a coalition that brought about the first federal ban on phthalates in toys, despite aggressive lobbying by the chemical industry.
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Addressing the Larger Problem: California's Green Chemistry Initiative
This program was supposed to protect Californians from chemicals in everyday consumer products but doesn't live up to its promises.
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Campaign gets companies to make safer cosmetics (Associated Press, 11/30/2011)
More than 400 cosmetics companies have removed chemicals linked to disease from their products under the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics' seven-year effort to shift the market toward safer products, reports the Associated Press.
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11.30.11
Market shift: hundreds of cosmetics companies fulfill safe-products pledge
Good news! The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics , a project of the Breast Cancer Fund, announced today that 321 cosmetics companies have met the goals of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics...
