The legendary Erin Brokovich has teamed up with Seventh Generation to promote The Million Baby Crawl – a nationwide effort to raise awareness of outdated chemical laws. They are encouraging parents to ask congress to toughen up on the wide-spread use of harmful chemicals in common household items.
Seventh Generation is the leading non-toxic, environmentally-friendly maker of cleaning products in the nation. One of the demands they are bringing to congress is to require cleaning products to list ingredients with warning labels that detail possible health effects. Seventh Generation has always listed their ingredients on each product label.
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is the decades-old legislation that currently regulates synthetic chemicals in the U.S. Of the 80,000 chemicals commonly used, only 200 are routinely tested. Under TSCA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can only demand a manufacturer turn over information necessary to evaluate a chemical’s safety after finding that it is dangerous. When the TSCA was passed in 1976, it allowed over 60,000 chemicals to be deemed as “safe” without a single scientific study.
Thankfully, two senators are introducing new legislation to address these concerns in the form of the Kids Safe Chemical Act (also known as Kid-Safe). The legislation would require manufacturers to prove that their chemicals are safe before being put on the market. Right now, products containing chemicals are only pulled off the market after they’ve been found to be dangerous.
Interestingly, the U.S. has the highest cancer rate of any country in the world and it’s a sad statistic that 1.25 million children are unintentionally poisoned in America each year.
In support of such legislation moving forward, Erin Brokovich, Seventh Generation, healthystuff.org and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families are promoting this virtual baby crawl to raise awareness to parents. Watch more funny promotional videos here and sign up to become a crawler!
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