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Ensuring menstrual products are safe, affordable and accessible WVE’s campaign to eliminate toxic chemicals from intimate care products in the US Alexandra Scranton Director of Science and Research Women’s Voices for the Earth December 2, 2019

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  • Ensuring menstrual products are safe, affordable and accessible

    WVE’s campaign to eliminate toxic chemicals from intimate care products in the US

    Alexandra ScrantonDirector of Science and Research

    Women’s Voices for the Earth

    December 2, 2019

  • Women’s Voices for the Earth amplifies women’s voices to

    eliminate the toxic chemicals that harm our health and communities.

  • Detox the Box Campaign

  • Chemicals of Concern found in

    Intimate Care ProductsHarmful preservatives:

    ParabensFormaldehyde-releasers

    Harmful Dyes and ColorantsRed No. 33Ext Violet No. 2

    FragranceAntimicrobials

    ChlorhexidineOctoxynol-9 (Spermicide)

  • P&G: Detox the Box!

  • Summer’s Deceive Campaign

  • From the Marketplace to Washington DC

    • Demand that feminine care companies disclose ingredients and make safer products• Robin Danielson Feminine Hygiene Product Safety• Accurate Labeling of Menstrual Products Act • New York Menstrual Products Right-to-Know Act

  • Timeline of Period Product Testing 2002 -2019

  • Thank you!

    Alexandra [email protected]

    http://womensvoices.org