Industry and Products That Kill
Tags: Poison, poisonous, toxic, health, detox, chemical, chemicals
SAFE PRODUCTS LISTS
- MADESAFE.org - Making products safe. Keeping families healthy.
- Health Impact News - Shining the Light of Truth into the Darkness of Deceit
Documentaries & Information
- The Devil We Know - The Chemistry of a Cover-Up
- Take Action To Reduce Harmful Chemical Exposure - REDUCE YOUR EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL CHEMICALS - It is easy to remove some harmful chemicals from your home, office, and products you use everyday. It isn't hard, and it won't cost a lot of money. Follow these tips from our 7-day Chemical Detox Challenge.
This website is for a documentary. It also has great resources on; avoiding toxic chemical products, activism for demanding transparency, using your purchasing power, host a screening, speaking up, and ways to join the conversation.
PFAS / Teflon
Teflon is a brand name of a achmical substance that is primarily made of POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES, knwon as PFAS Chemicals.
PER - AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES, KNOWN AS PFAS CHEMICALS, constitute a multi-billion dollar family of chemicals that are widely used to make water-, grease- and stain-repellent coatings. They’re also used in a vast array of consumer goods and industrial applications. These chemicals are notoriously persistent in the environment and the human body, and some have been linked to serious health effects.
Because PFAS chemicals are so widely used and contaminate the environment in so many ways — including through product degradation and pollution discharges — scientists and regulators have had difficulty tracing the exact routes that PFAS chemicals may take as they find their way into human blood. Their presence in blood is a near-universal phenomenon in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WHERE DO YOU FIND PFAS CHEMICALS?
They’re used in coatings on carpets and clothing, in microwave popcorn bags and on fast-food wrappers. Most waterproof or stain-repellent clothing is coated with them, and while many responsible clothing companies are seeking safer alternatives, PFC coatings remain common in the marketplace. The fabric may be labeled with brands such as TEFLON, SCOTCHGARD, STAINMASTER, POLARTEC OR GORE-TEX, but these are only a handful of the brands that still contain these chemicals.
