Press buzzing over healthystuff.org
The release of healthystuff.org last week had newspapers, bloggers, TV news and radio buzzing. The new site is a resource that rates a variety of products based on the presence of toxic chemicals.
Healthystuff.org focuses on toxics in pet products, women’s handbags, toys, car interiors, car seats and back to school items.
The New York Times wrote about the site’s release in its article Environmental Group Reveals Toxic Chemicals in a Range of Consumer Items.
The Times interviewed Jeff Gearhart, research director at the Ecology Center, which developed healthystuff.org.
Mr. Gearhart said the center’s announcement was timed to give a lift to current efforts in Congress to introduce legislation to more closely regulate toxic chemicals that end up in so many household products.
“Current laws that regulate individual products are stopgap measures,” he said, “Ultimately we need to move to a system that doesn’t regulate the end product but regulates the chemicals themselves.”
The Times also interviewed Charlotte Brody, the national field director for Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, which lobbies for better regulation of toxic chemicals
“The honest answer to this report is we do not know how big a deal it is,” she said. “Every year we learn that what we had learned was a safe level of a chemical turns out not to be that safe.
“If people are telling you lead is safe, even in small amounts, it isn’t science. It is hubris.”
Other coverage of the healthystuff.org release includes:
Public News Service: Time to Perform a Health Check on Your “Stuff”
KTLA: Study Finds Toxic Chemicals in Pet Toys
Consumeraffairs.com: Report Finds Toxins Common in Products for Children, Pets
Talk Radio News: Internet Startup Seeks to Reveal Safest and Most Dangerous Consumer Products
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