Frequently Asked Questions
- Resources for finding healthier products
- Tips on shopping for children
- Product safety information
- Lead in children's products project
- Lead in children's products: FAQ for Health Care Providers
- Lead poisoning facts
Healthier Products
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics - Consumer information and actions on txocis in personal care products.
- Cars - HealthyStuff.org’s Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Cars.
- Childproofing our Communities Campaign - Guide to making homes and schools environmentally safe for children.
- Children’s Car Seats, Toys, and other Children’s Products - HealthyStuff.org’s Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Products.
- Computer Take Back Campaign - Information on toxic chemicals used in computers.
- Environment California - Research on phthalates in toys, bisphenol-A in baby bottles, and formaldehyde in furniture.
- Environmental Working Group - Consumer tools databases with information about personal care products, how much tuna is safe for pregnant women, which fruits and vegetables are lowest in pesticides, and more.
- Good Guide - Information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products.
- Green Guide – A variety of information on products for the home, garden, and personal care. Includes room by room guides.
- Guide to Less Toxic Products - Provides information about potential health risks of commonly used products, helps identify less toxic alternatives for personal care, household cleaning, baby care, and household pest control, and contains information to help evaluate products not in this Guide.
- Healthy Building Network - Guide to healthy home building materials.
- IATP: Food and Health - Tips for parents and children on how to avoid environmental and health risks from plastic packaging of food.
- Smart Plastics Guide (PDF)
- Smart Children's Products (PDF)
- Pet Products - HealthyStuff.org’s Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Pet Products
- Pollution Issues - From toxics in products to factory contamination to noise pollution to waste hazards, Pollution Issues is an accessible resource on environmental health issues in everyday life.
- Safer Products - Gives a room by room collection of household products and ranks them in order of safety.
- Skin Deep - Rates many cosmetic and personal care products based on number of toxic ingredients.
- U.S. PIRG's Trouble in Toyland Report – 24th annual Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey of toy safety. Also includes a shopping guide.
- Washington Toxics Coalition - Guide to safer household cleaners, art and hobby supplies, and home repair/building materials.
- Women's Voices for the Earth's Safe Cleaning Products Initiative - Gives information on ways people can protect their health through safer cleaning products.
- For additional resources on safer products and children's environmental health, please visit http://www.mnceh.org/resources.safer.php.
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