Toxic Enforcement and Your Partnership

Here are some successes in Toxic Enforcement because of your partnership.

  • Through CA Prop 65 enforcement actions, As You Sow has reduced / eliminated or is reducing / eliminating:

  • Lead and cadmium in chocolate and spinach

  • Formaldehyde emissions in thousands of portable classrooms in California

  • Lead exposure from children’s jewelry, herbal supplements, sports equipment, and other consumer products

  • Perchloroethylene (a carcinogen) from hundreds of industrial and consumer dry cleaning businesses; toxic chemicals in Revlon nail polish, Johnson & Johnson cosmetics; 1,4-dioxane from P&G’s Tide detergent; heavy chemicals in herbal supplements

  • DEHP and other carcinogenic phthalates from a wide array of vinyl consumer products, such as electronic earbuds and book bags