Meliora Cleaning Products is Adopting the Health First Roadmap
Meliora Cleaning Products announces their commitment to adopting our Health First Roadmap and to making their ingredient screening process even better. Learn more and follow their journey!
New Tampon Testing Confirms Need for Ingredient Disclosure!
This testing doesn’t tell us everything we need to know. It is just one snapshot demonstrating that there is more to these products than is currently being disclosed.
New Tampon Testing Reveals Undisclosed Carcinogens and Reproductive Toxins
National women’s health nonprofit, Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), has released independent product-testing results that reveal undisclosed toxic chemicals in tampons. The results of the testing detected carbon disulfide, a known reproductive toxin, in all four brands of tampons that contain rayon. Carbon disulfide is a chemical that is predominantly used in the manufacture of rayon; it was not detected in the all-cotton tampons that were tested.
New Yorkers — Take action for your right to know what’s in menstrual products!
Legislation has been introduced in New York that will require disclosure of ingredients in menstrual products, including pads, tampons and menstrual cups. TAKE ACTION for your right to know!
Yes, Talking About Periods is That Powerful
It is so encouraging (and so important) to see the conversation on periods and period health move into the mainstream. Because that conversation is MOVING the mainstream.
Defining “Safe”: 5 Things the Health First Roadmap Means for You
Cleaning product companies each have their own version of what “safe” or what “toxic” means. This inconsistency and confusion is hurting both companies, and most importantly, our health. Enter, The Health First Roadmap...
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Cleaning Products
Did you know that there is such a thing as disinfectant overkill? Or that harsh cleaners have been linked to COPD? What you don't know about cleaning products may surprise you!
CA Governor Signs Historic Law Requiring Companies to Disclose Ingredients in Cleaning Products
In a major victory for consumer and worker right to know, Governor Brown has signed into law a bill that requires manufacturers of a wide array of cleaning products to disclose their ingredients. The Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 258, authored by Senator Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens) requires the ingredients in cleaning products – particularly chemicals whose ability to harm human health or the environment has been recognized by established scientific authoritative bodies – to be listed on both product labels and online. Under this law, the mandatory disclosure also applies to ingredients in fragrance mixtures, which have been tightly-held secrets until now.
VICTORY! Cleaning Product Ingredient Disclosure Becomes Law in California
Historic legislation was just signed into law in California that requires disclosure of ingredients used in institutional and household cleaning products.
In California, Cleaning Product Companies To Come Clean on Ingredients
Right to Know Act Mandates Ingredient Disclosures on Labels and Online - In a major victory for consumer and worker right to know, California lawmakers today approved legislation to require manufacturers to disclose the ingredients in home-use and institutional cleaning products. If Gov. Jerry Brown signs the bill, California will once again become a national leader by requiring greater transparency of ingredients in consumer products.