Make sure your children’s back to school supplies are safe & PVC free!
Parents & children have options when it comes to choosing school supplies that are healthier and safer – in other words no PVC, the poison plastic included. To help you prevent any potential harm from coming to your schoolchild, CHEJ’s researchers have compiled a brand new guide for back to school purchases complete with safer PVC free products and commonly found products which do contain PVC, a plastic to be avoided. Click here for your copy:

Do you have a chemically laden, potentially harmful shower curtain hanging in YOUR bathroom?
Chances are you do. Check out CHEJ’s newest report: Volatile Vinyl The New Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell & watch the slide show, find out safer purchase options and much more: Click here

"Sign the Petition for PVC-Free Shower Curtains"

I thought I saw a giant rubber ducky?!
Don’t run to the eye doctors….CHEJ’s B. Safe Duck is one well traveled 25 foot tall ducky!Click here to learn all about B’s coast to coast travels, her rallies in Washington State and Maine. Can you guess where B will go next? Contact CHEJ if your group would like a visit from B. Safe the Giant Rubber Duck!
[Check out a slideshow of photos from the trip to Washington]
[Read all about the ducky's trip to Washington]

Didn’t mom always say better to be safe than to be sorry?....
Why does the chemical industry disagree? Learn more about how Washington State wants to ban phthalates from children’s toys, yet is getting industry push back.Click here to read the article

Dangerous Ducky and Other Toxic Toys
Would you believe it? Another study has found high levels of phthalates, toxic compounds that have been linked to birth defects, in popular children’s PVC toys.
[Read the report]

We Did it Again! Toys"R"Us Getting the Nasty Toxins Out!
CHEJ's PVC campaign is on a roll! Toys"R"Us is the latest mega-retailer to adopt a PVC-free goal and is phasing out phthalates in juvenile products.
[Read CHEJ's press release]