Featured Action

Support the Safe Baby Products Act

Cancer-causing chemicals can sneak into children's bath products unlabeled, according to product tests from the Breast Cancer Fund’s Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The Safe Baby Products Act aims to stop the contamination and protect kids first.

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More Opportunities for Action

Inert, But Not Safe

"Inert" ingredients sound so harmless. But current law allows inactive ingredients linked to cancer – including formaldehyde, BPA, toluene and benzene – to be unlabeled on household pesticides. And while they may not kill pests, these chemicals might harm you. Now's your chance to change this.

Tell the EPA you want full disclosure of inert ingredients »

What's in Your Cleaning Products?

You likely can't find the answer on the bottle because no law requires cleaning products to be labeled with their ingredients. Yet these sprays, detergents and polishes can contain chemicals linked to cancer, early puberty, birth defects and asthma. Exercise your right to know by supporting the newly introduced Household Product Labeling Act.

Ask your senators to co-sponsor the Household Product Labeling Act »

Ask the Senate to Ban BPA

Like many other hormonally active chemicals, bisphenol A (BPA) has been shown to increase breast cancer risk. A primary source of this synthetic estrogen is no further than your dinner plate: food and drink that has been contaminated by the cans or hard plastic containers in which it was packaged, stored or heated. Now the Senate is considering a bill that would ban this toxic additive from all food and beverage containers.

Ask your senators to co-sponsor the BPA Act »

A Platform for Prevention

At a time when virtually every American has been touched by breast cancer, we are long past the need for awareness. Ask your Congress members to support the public policies that can help prevent breast cancer in the future by identifying and eliminating the environmental causes of the disease.

Sign on to our Prevention Platform »

Demand Answers – and Refunds – from SIGG

SIGG, maker of the popular metal water bottles that were sold as an alternative to plastic bottles made with bisphenol A (BPA), has admitted that it used BPA in its bottles until last summer. Ask SIGG for a refund – not just a replacement – on your old SIGG bottles, and press the company to tell you what's in its new bottle liner.

Write to SIGG »

We Need Health Tracking!

For nearly a decade, the Breast Cancer Fund has been working with Congress to create a national health-tracking program that would give us better data about environmental links to disease. Today, our efforts have new legs: the Coordinated Environmental Public Health Network Act.

Write to your representative »

Time for EPA to Act on Dioxin Dangers

Dioxin is one of the most toxic chemicals in the world, it’s a breast carcinogen, it builds up in our bodies and it’s even found in breast milk. The EPA is forming a scientific advisory panel to study dioxin even more — but how do we protect public health in the meantime?

Ask EPA to act now on dioxin »

Legislative Tools

The Breast Cancer Fund has led efforts to pass bills in California and Washington to bring safe cosmetics, radiation safety measures, biomonitoring and safe toys to state residents. Now you can lead the charge in your own state.

Legislative toolkit »

Past California bills »

Past Washington bills »