triclosan health hazards Archives - Center for Environmental Health

Eco-Tip: Triclosan-Free Alternatives

Apr 18, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, Tips

Do you use antibacterial soaps or sprays to keep your hands clean? Many of us do. And news coverage about bacteria, like germ-infested public transportation seats, can send many of us searching for something we can quickly spray on our hands. One common antibacterial...

A Cleaning Industry Poll Concludes that the Public (gasp) Favors Antibacterial Products!

Mar 1, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChemical Industry, Children's Health, General Insights

Last month, the American Cleaning Institute and Personal Care Products Council conducted a “poll” of American consumers’ views on and uses of antibacterial soap, in nervous anticipation of the possible EPA ban on triclosan, the antibacterial chemical found in a...

It’s Triclosan Awareness Month!

Jan 27, 2011Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Tips

During the last few weeks we’ve seen so many important triclosan-related developments that, here at CEH world headquarters, we’ve begun calling January “Triclosan Awareness Month.” Some of it is good news, some bad, but all is important enough that we want to make...