TIP TALKS, NOVEMBER, 2015
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IN THIS ISSUE
in Personal Care & Household Products & Help
With Alternative Choices
**GOOD NEWS: Halifax Celebrates 20 (Now 25) Y
**RESOURCES: Top Ten Toxic Skin Care Ingredients,
Ava Anderson – A Source for Less Toxic Options
LIB TALKS
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**SIMPLIFYING HEALTHY HOLIDAYS As Thanksgiving
lot of shopping and cooking! Although there is much
detailed
info on what gifts & food to buy, it can be hard to find
time
for real “research”. So, I suggest you use our TIP
Thoughts
to pick up some quick holiday tips. Scroll down to
find lots of
ideas & resources, including those in our previous
Healthy
at: http://toxicsinfo.org/house/FoodFacts.htm in our Food
Facts & Fantasy flyer. (Note: All these are
formatted for
printing out as two-sided, folded over handouts).
Finally,
http://toxicsinfo.org/house/ModusVivendi.htm .
CONSUMER ACTION WORKS! As indicated via our new
Clever Consumer Campaign, consumer power can be awesome
– and quicker than the legislative route to change! This
month’s
TIP TALKS provides several examples of success, by groups
us what WE want! ALSO, SEE OUR NEW CLEVER CONSUMER
CAMPAIGN FLYER FOR SOME IDEAS & RESOURCES FOR
ACTION: It’s online on the “Thoughts” page:
http://toxicsinfo.org/thoughts.htm
NON-REGULATION OF PRODUCT INGREDIENTS: We can’t
the concerns we’re here to address. And, protection by
the
Federal agencies just isn’t good – too much corporate
influence.
So, since you want to look great for holiday partying,
here’s a
include ANY chemicals, without testing or approval by any
federal agency – it’s called “trade secrets”. So, this
month’s
stinkers – and find the (fortunately available)
alternatives.
(Don’t forget also our plea at the bottom of this page to
support
our TIP efforts – especially the one of benefiting us at no
cost to you
Finally, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours –with the
non-toxic these days, if we just reduce our exposure to
bad stuff, and embrace the good, our wonderful immune
systems can do an excellent job of handling the rest!
Blessings, Liberty G
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GOOD NEWS
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HALIFAX CELEBRATES 20 YEARS FRAGRANCE FREE
January 15, 2011 (Shared in September, 2015 by Nancy
Alderman of EHHI in CT) “This is a really interesting article
-
even if it is a bit old. Today, I guess they would be
celebrating
25 years of being fragrance- free. "Now voluntary
anti-fragrance
policies are the norm in most workplaces, churches, schools
and public spaces in the entire province of Nova Scotia”
saiys Nancy.
In 2011 Halifax marks its 20th anniversary as the first city
in
North America to go fragrance free at work. The idea started
in a local hospital and spread to other businesses. Now an
entire
generation of young people has grown up without wearing
scented
beauty and body products in public spaces.
Brenda Marsh is the former director of occupational health
services at the QEII Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She
and
fragrance-free policy for a hospital in 1991 and went on to
do
the same for the entire city of Halifax, including a
voluntary ban
on scented products in public schools, libraries and
buses.
Now voluntary anti-fragrance policies are the norm in most
workplaces, churches, schools and public spaces in the
entire
province of Nova Scotia. Marsh's policies serve as the
original model.
Nancy Alderman, President, Environment and Human Health,
Inc.
http://www.ehhi.org,
http://ehhijournal.org
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CLEVER
CONSUMER ACTION
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TELL SALLY HANSEN, WET N WILD, OPI & OTHER NAIL POLISH
BRANDS: STOP USING ENDOCRINE-DISRUPTING CHEMICALS
If you’ve painted your nails lately, there’s a good chance
you used
one of these brands: Sally Hansen, Essie, OPI, Revlon, Wet n
Wild,
Maybelline, or a handful of others. There’s also a
chance that a
suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical known as triphenyl
phosphate (
TPHP), has ended up in your body as a result. This chemical
is added
to polish to improve its flexibility and is also commonly
used in
plastics manufacturing and as a fire retardant in foam
furniture.
A new study co-authored by researchers at EWG & Duke
University
found that 10 to 14 hours after polishing their nails, the
levels of a
metabolite of TPHP in all 26 participants had risen by an
average of
nearly sevenfold. Besides disrupting hormones, TPHP
could contribute
to weight gain & obesity., according to scientific
research. In animal
studies, it has caused reproductive & developmental
problems.
In other words, it has no place in our nail polish or in our
bodies.
Sign EWG’s petition here:
http://action.ewg.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=2168&tag=201510NPAction
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CLEVER CONSUMER SUCCESS - &
ACTION
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SUBWAY: THANKS FOR PROTECTING ANTIBIOTICS
(From US PIRG) Subway just announced it will phase out
the use of
antibiotics from its entire meat supply. This is a major win
for public
health, and we're ecstatic that Subway will be living up to
the healthy
image they've created. As the largest fast food
restaurant in the
United States, this decision will put major market pressure
on meat
producers to change their practices, and stop overusing
antibiotics.
This major victory came just two days before we planned to
deliver
more than 270,000 petition signatures calling on the chain
to take
action to help save antibiotics. So, we quickly shifted our
message
to one of thanks and marched all those “thank you's"
straight to
Subway’s front door in Milford, Connecticut. We wanted
Subway
-- and the entire industry -- to know just how much
consumers
appreciated their commitment to public health.
Subway’s plan to eliminate antibiotics from its entire meat
supply
means fewer poultry & livestock operations will dose
healthy animals
with our life-saving medicines. It means halting a practice
that breeds
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which already sicken two
million & kill
will keep working to save lives today, & for generations
to come.
Join in telling Subway, "Thank You."
https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13327
MACY’S PLANS TO STOP
SELLING FURNITURE
WITH TOXIC FLAME
RETARDANTS SAYS NGO
Retailer Takes Step at Urging of Safer Chemicals, Healthy
Families
Concerned parents and health advocates had asked Macy's to
commit to adopting a policy eliminating the toxic chemicals
in
furniture by this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The groups had planned a national "day of action"
today at Macy's
Herald Square and other stores around the country. Over the
past
two weeks, Macy's had received thousands of e-mails from
customers
encouraging them to address the harmful chemicals.
Macy's responded to Mind the Store yesterday, saying in
part,
"We expect that our suppliers (the manufacturers of
furniture sold at
Macy's) are no longer using the chemicals in question, and
we believe
a majority are already in compliance…We will be instructing
any
remaining suppliers who are using these chemicals to cease
doing so.
If we do identify a vendor that is still applying the old
flame
retardants, we'll be requiring them to cease doing so
immediately."
Numerous competing retailers like IKEA, Walmart, and Ashley
have
already announced that they are phasing out toxic flame
retardants
in furniture. Some chains like Pier 1 Imports, Rooms to Go,
and
Berkshire Hathaway's furniture stores have not yet made
announcements.
The Mind the Store campaign is challenging major U.S.
retailers to
adopt policies to identify, restrict, and safely substitute
the
Hazardous 100+ chemicals in common consumer products.
http://dev.thedailysmell.com/2011/01/15/halifax-nova-scotia-celebrates-20-years-fragrance-free/
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RESOURCES
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TOP 10 TOXIC SKIN CARE INGREDIENTS (AVOID
PUTTING ON YOUR SKIN AT
ALL COSTS)
NEW
EWG VERIFIED PROGRAM
EWG is going beyond Skin Deep® with their new EWG VERIFIED™
program. Whether you’re in a brick-and-mortar store or
online, you
will now be able to see instantly which products meet EWG’s strictest
standards. With EWG VERIFIED™, you’ll be able to identify
the EWG
VERIFIED™ mark right on products – from shampoo to
moisturizer to
toothpaste – to make your shopping experience quicker.
See: http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/27/ewg-verified-toxic-cosmetics/
AVA ANDERSON NON-TOXIC, PERSONAL, HOUSEHOLD
& PET PRODUCTS WITHOUT HARMFUL CHEMICALS
(An online source where you can avoid the “Toxic Ten” and more!
http://avaandersonnontoxic.com/why-non-toxic/
www.avaandersonnontoxic.com/shop/
www.AvaAndersonNonToxic.com/lorigibson
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Liberty Goodwin, Director, Toxics Information Project (TIP)
P.O. Box 40572, Providence, RI 02940
Tel. 401-351-9193, E-Mail: liberty@toxicsinfo.org