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  • Safe Start For Kids
  • Choosing Safer Products: Clothing and Apparel
  • Choosing Safer Products: Personal Care Products
  • Choosing Safer Products: Toys
  • Five Steps to a Healthy Nursery or Child's Room
  • Plastics 101
  • Choosing Safer Products: Tips for Choosing Healthy Food
  • Choosing a Healthy Childcare Facility
  • Choosing Safer Products: Art and Craft Supplies
  • Choosing Safer Products: Furniture
  • Choosing Safer Products: Lunchboxes and Food Storage
  • Choosing Safer Products: Tableware
  • Choices for a Healthy Pregnancy
  • Choosing Safer Products: Mattresses and Changing Pads
  • Choosing Safer Products: Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups, and Pacifiers
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Safe Start For Kids

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As parents, we do our best to choose the safest products for our kids. But how do we know which products are safe? The surprising truth is that chemical ingredients in children's products do not need to be tested for safety before being used. As a result, everyday products can contain chemicals linked with health effects like learning and behavioral problems, hormone disruption, and asthma. So what's a parent to do? Explore our easy tips on choosing safer products and creating healthy environments for your kids! And please sign up to receive breaking news about our critical work to protect children's health.

Your resource for easy ways to protect children from toxic chemicals!  

A project of the Washington Toxics Coalition
                        
As parents, we do our best to choose the safest products for our kids. But how do we know which products are safe? The surprising truth is that chemical ingredients in children’s products do not need to be tested for safety before being used. As a result, everyday products can contain chemicals linked with health effects like learning and behavioral problems, hormone disruption, and asthma.  

So what’s a parent to do?  Explore our easy tips on choosing safer products and creating healthy environments for your kids! And please sign up to receive breaking news about our critical work to protect children's health.

Choosing Safer Products:

 


Kids Coloring
Art & Craft Supplies


Girl in Pink Raincoat and Umbrella
Clothing & Apparel


Bottles and Sippy Cups
Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups, & Pacifiers


Family on Couch
Furniture


LunchBag
Lunchboxes & Food Storage


Latex Crib Mattress
Mattresses & Changing Pads


Personal Care Products
Personal Care Products

alpaca wool dolls
Toys

 
Fruits and Vegetables
Healthy Food


Bamboo Tableware
Tableware

More Tips to Protect Children:

  • Choices for a Healthy Pregnancy
  • Choosing a Healthy Child Care Facility
  • Five Steps to a Healthy Nursery or Child's Room
  • Plastics 101
  • Fact Sheet: Safer Products for Your Kids (PDF)
  • Growing Up Green - Monthly E-newsletter


Additional Resources on Our Website:

  • Healthy Homes & Gardens: how to choose less-toxic products for the whole family
  • FastFacts FAQs: quick answers to common questions on alternatives to toxic products
  • Not So Squeaky Clean: our latest report about phthalates in toys (PDF)

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