Cancer-causing Chemicals in Everyday Products: Your Right-to-Know and Necessary Actions to Prevent Harm

Welcome back! We are continuing to look at product safety as we move further into the Holiday Season. This week’s selection is a webinar. The slides and other written resources are also available on the website.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics has a long and productive history of community-based participatory research and peer-reviewed publications. I have had the honor and privilege of calling them friends and colleagues.

The featured speaker is Stacy Malkan. UJDP worked with Stacy Malkan on Johnson & Johnson talc baby powder campaigns.

Excerpt: “Despite a growing body of research around the toxicity of chemicals used in consumer products and within our food system, regulation of chemical manufacturers lag behind the science. Chemicals are used in production, processing, and packaging that are known or suspected to be harmful to humans (e.g. interfere with our endocrine system, cause reproductive harm, cancer and other serious chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease). During this month’s call, entitled ‘Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Everyday Products: Your Right-to-Know and Necessary Actions to Prevent Harm’, we discussed the path that led to the current state of affairs (i.e. lack of federal oversight, industry-funded research, self-regulation), how the adverse health effects of these toxic products disproportionately harm women and communities of color, as well as successful and ongoing methods to address these serious environmental health and justice issues.”

Citation: Cancer-causing Chemicals in Everyday Products: Your Right-to-Know and Necessary Actions to Prevent Harm. (2022, October 2). [Video]. ACAT. https://www.akaction.org/webinars/cancer-causing-chemicals-in-everyday-products-your-right-to-know-and-necessary-actions-to-prevent-harm/