Here is EDF’s release on Walmart’s announcement today:<\/p>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n EDF Applauds New Walmart Policy That Promises Safer Products for Consumers<\/strong><\/p>\n New chemicals policy today promises to bring safer, healthier products September 12, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n CONTACT: <\/strong>Katie Ware, kware@edf.org<\/a>, (212) 616-1283<\/p>\n BENTONVILLE, Ark.\u2014Walmart announced a new chemicals policy today that promises to bring safer, healthier products to the 80 percent of Americans that shop there. The policy was unveiled during Walmart\u2019s Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting and focuses on chemical ingredients in consumables \u2013household cleaners, personal care products and cosmetics.<\/p>\n Walmart is calling for expanded ingredient disclosure, targeting about ten key chemicals of concern for substitution with better ingredients and looking to take its private brand products through a rigorous screening process.<\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s announcement is yet another indication that consumers, advocates and business are working together to fill the void left by Washington\u2019s inaction on chemical safety,\u201d said Sarah Vogel, Director of EDF\u2019s Environmental Health program.<\/p>\n EDF worked closely with Walmart to prioritize the removal of toxic chemicals in household, personal care and beauty products. Walmart\u2019s new chemicals policy targets about ten hazardous chemicals in consumer products for replacement with safer ingredients and significantly expands ingredient disclosure to the public.<\/p>\n \u201cSome companies stop at issuing a restricted substances list,\u201d said Vogel. \u201cNo other company is requiring the all-important, but often forgotten, second step to truly transformational phase-outs: putting a system in place that avoids regrettable chemical substitutions. EDF commends this aggressive new policy.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n # # # #<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Environmental Defense Fund<\/em> (<\/em>edf.org<\/em><\/a>), a leading national nonprofit organization, creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships. Follow us on Twitter at <\/em>twitter.com\/EnvDefenseFund<\/em><\/a> and on Facebook at <\/em>facebook.com\/EnvDefenseFund<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is EDF’s release on Walmart’s announcement today: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EDF Applauds New Walmart Policy That Promises Safer Products for Consumers New chemicals policy today promises to bring safer, healthier products to the 80 percent of Americans that shop at Walmart September 12, 2013 CONTACT: Katie Ware, kware@edf.org, (212) 616-1283 BENTONVILLE, Ark.\u2014Walmart announced a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,56088],"tags":[39993],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-markets-and-retail","tag-general-interest"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto the 80 percent of Americans that shop at Walmart<\/em><\/p>\n