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TOXIC
DANGERS
helped lead more than 200 moms
and kids as part of the National
Stroller Brigade in Washington,
D.C. Their mission: convince Congress to retire the outdated Toxic
Substances Control Act of 1976
(TSCA), the country’s main law
regulating chemicals used in everyday products, and replace it with
the stronger, more precautionary
Safe Chemicals Act. That legislation, first proposed by Sen. Frank
Lautenberg (D-NJ) in 2010, now
awaits a Senate vote.
The swap would essentially
shift the burden of proof for
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chemical safety from the current
assumption that a chemical is safe
until proven toxic by the EPA to a
requirement for industry to prove
that a chemical is safe prior to
placing it on store shelves.
Of all the parents among the
nearly 3,400 people who have so
far attended screenings of his film
worldwide, Brown said that at least
nine out of every 10 had no prior
idea that most of the products they
buy have never been tested for effects on a child’s brain, immune or
reproductive system.
“We fundamentally need better
laws to protect the public,” said
Dahl, “not better shopping lists.”
Sen. Frank
Lautenberg
(D-NJ)
proposed
the Safe
Chemicals
Act in 2010.