Principles for Safe, Healthy, Responsible and Toxic-Free Retail [Friends of the Earth]

Thousands of toxic or untested chemicals are in the products sold in major retail stores and are placed into workers’ and communities’ environments during the production and disposal of products we buy and use every day from these stores. Many of these chemicals have been linked to serious impacts on the environment and human health, including cancer, mutations, birth defects, infertility, damage to the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems, and respiratory damage.
We are calling for major retailers to act in a morally responsible way by phasing out toxic chemicals in the products sold in the largest chain retail stores and in the production processes used to make these products. We want the largest retail chain stores to protect the health and safety of workers and communities here and abroad by minimizing and eventually eliminating the use of toxic chemicals produced or used in the extraction, production, transport, and disposal of products and in the products themselves.