Toxic Consumer Goods
General Resources on Toxic Consumer Goods
- Behind the Label (The Ecologist)
- Environmental Working Group
- Health Care Without Harm: Pesticides, Fragrances and Cleaners
- Healthy Child Healthy World
- Household Products Database (US Department of of Health and Human Services)
- Phthalates in Cosmetic Products
- The Smart Mama
Cars
Ozone Machines
- Indoor Smog-Making Machines
- Ozone Generators that are Sold as Air Cleaners (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Warning: Avoid ozone generating air machines (The Canary Report)
Perfume and Fragrance
- Air Freshener Fragrance Ingredients
- Chemical Sensitivities and Perfumes
- Exposure Assessment (Anne Steinemann, PhD)
- Fragranced Consumer Products and Undisclosed Ingredients (a study by Anne Steinemann, PhD, 2008)
- Hidden Hazards in Fragranced Consumer Products (Anne Steinemann, PhD)
- The International Fragrance Industry’s list of fragrance ingredients used in consumer goods by their customers worldwide.
- Scents and Sensitivity
Pesticides
- Atrazine Lovers (website of biologist Tyrone Hayes)
- Glyphosate: public health vs profit in Argentina (Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Round-Up herbicide)
- Glyphosate Formulations Induce Apoptosis and Necrosis in Human Umbilical, Embryonic, and Placental Cells
- Health Care Without Harm: Pesticides, Fragrances and Cleaners
- National Pesticide Information Center
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database
- Pesticide Education Center
- Project Safe Yard (Protecting kids from pesticides)
- Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?, a scientific paper by by Michael Antoniou, Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostafa Habib, C. Vyvyan Howard, Richard C. Jennings, Carlo Leifert, Rubens Onofre Nodari, Claire Robinson and John Fagan; Earth Open Source, 2011.
- Scientists Reveal Effects of Glyphosate (active ingredient in Round-Up herbicide)
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Media Reports on Toxic Consumer Goods
- Common Synthetic Fragrances Found to Harm Wildlife, Humans (Labour Environmental Alliance Society)
- Highly toxic chemicals are found in laundry detergents, dryer sheets, deodorants, perfumes, soaps and other household products (Natural News)
- Many Cleaners, Air Fresheners May Pose Health Risks When Used Indoors (Science Daily)
- New clothing often finished with fumigants, disinfectants, insecticides and antimildew sprays (Karen Youso at Star Tribune)
- Synthetic Bed Mattress Health Effects Report Page: Reports of health problems linked to chemicals in new mattresses
- Synthetic Chemicals on Tap (Environmental Science and Technology)
- The Dangers of Dryer Sheets
- There Is No “Away”: Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care Products, and Endocrine-Disrupting Substances: Emerging Contaminants Detected in Water (Susan Holtz, 2006)
- The Truth About Tattoos: Health Risks, Toxicity and More
- Toxic Chemicals Found In Common Scented Laundry Products, Air Fresheners (Science Daily)
- “Toxic Inaction: Why poisonous, unregulated chemicals end up in our blood” (Harper’s Magazine)
The above links are posted for informational purposes only. The Canary Report is not responsible for the content of external websites, and the listing does not infer endorsement.
