Moms descend on Congress to urge toxic chemical reform - Safe Chemicals Act - National Stroller Brigade

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Moms descend on Congress to urge toxic chemical reform.

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/national-stroller-brigade-toxic-chemic\

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By Lynne Peeples Huffington Post 23 May 2012

On Tuesday, Nienstedt and her 11-year-old daughter, Tyler

Cheyenne, joined about 200 other moms and children as part of the

National Stroller Brigade in Washington, D.C. Their mission: convince

Congress to retire the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act.

They are pushing the proposed Safe Chemicals Act, which would

essentially shift the burden of proof for chemical safety from the

current assumption that a chemical is safe until proven toxic, to a

requirement for industry to prove that a chemical is safe prior to

placing it on store shelves....

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Safe Chemicals Act

<http://www.saferchemicals.org/resources/safechemicalsactof2011.html>

National Stroller Brigade

<http://www.saferchemicals.org/strollerbrigades.html>

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