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Subject: Our daughters deserve better. Your message to friends:

Dear Friend,

Over this past year, we've learned more and more about the problem of toxic chemicals. In 2010, the President's Cancer Panel showed a link between exposures to toxic chemicals and rising cancer rates. (1) Six months later, new research from the Journal of Pediatrics showed that a recent rise in early puberty for girls is linked to exposure to endocrine disruptors, which are rampant in every day items, such as household cleaners and cosmetics.(2)

We know there’s a problem. Finally, we have a solution: The Safe Chemicals Act.

Ask your Senator to support comprehensive toxics legislation by cosponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act: http://action.momsrising.org/letter/NewTSCA1/?source=taf

What is the Safe Chemicals Act?

The Safe Chemicals Act is a much needed update to our not-so-current toxics legislation, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976. In 1976, we didn’t know as much about how toxic chemicals can migrate from the materials and products in which they're used – including furniture, plastics, and food cans – into our bodies. Thirty five years later, The Federal Centers for Disease Control has found that the blood or tissues of almost every American carry hundreds of these chemicals, some present even before birth. Yet under the outdated TSCA, the EPA has only been able to require testing of a few hundred of the 62,000 chemicals that have been on the market since TSCA was passed 35 years ago, a number that has increased to 85,000 chemicals today. (3)

Moms are the push Congress needs to pass the Safe Chemicals Act. In the last three years, 18 states have passed 71 chemical safety laws.(4) It’s the hard work of people like you across the country that has made these changes happen. Now we can bring the momentum of these state successes to the national level.

Lets tell our Senators that it’s time to take a lesson from our home states and pass comprehensive chemicals reform for the entire country. Ask your Senator to cosponsor the Safe Chemicals Act: http://action.momsrising.org/letter/NewTSCA1/?source=taf

Powerful voices in the health world are speaking up for an overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the American Nurses Association.(5)They know that our broken chemical screening system puts our families at risk for cancer, learning disabilities, infertility, and more. And we know that when the health of our kids is at stake, there’s nothing we won’t do to keep them safe.

Don't forget to ask your Senator to protect America’s families from toxic chemicals by cosponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act: http://action.momsrising.org/letter/NewTSCA1/?source=taf

The Safe Chemicals Act would require the EPA to identify and restrict the most dangerous chemicals, and would require basic health and safety information for all chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market. It would also work to reduce the burden of toxic chemical exposures on people of color and low-income and indigenous communities, and provide the EPA with the tools and resources it needs to identify and address chemicals posing health and environmental concerns.

We can’t protect our kids and families from toxics without updating legislation like the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The Safe Chemicals Act is that important update. Ask your Senator to cosponsor the Safe Chemicals Act: http://action.momsrising.org/letter/NewTSCA1/?source=taf

And please share this link with your family and friends; the more voices we have, the stronger the message to Congress!

Thank you!

1) President's Cancer Panel Report: http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/ADVISORY/pcp/annualReports/index.htm

2) Puberty in Second Grade??: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/puberty-in-second-grade/?akid=2575.86216.qOAJ7z&rd=1&t=12&source=taf

3) " Safe Chemicals Act of 2011: Introduced Today, Legislation Would Protect American Families from Toxic Chemicals:http://www.saferchemicals.org/2011/04/safe-chemicals-act-of-2011-introduced-today-legislation-would-protect-american-families-from-toxic-chemicals.html

4) Healthy States Report, from Safer Chemicals Healthy Families: http://blog.saferchemicals.org/2010/11/healthy-states-protecting-families-from-toxic-chemicals-while-congress-lags-behind.html

5) "Pediatricians Urge Tougher Chemical Safety Law," CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/04/25/toxic.chemicals/

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Tell Congress to Get Moving on Toxic Chemical Safety for Kids!

All children should be able to have a healthy start. Yet too many are exposed to harmful chemicals in everyday products. It's long past time to modernize our outdated chemical policies. Our outdated system leaves our families exposed to countless toxic chemicals every day that put our families at risk for cancer, learning disabilities, infertility, and more. Ask your Senator to protect our families by cosponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act!

Dear Senator,

As one of a million members of MomsRising.org, I urge you to please move quickly to update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) by supporting and co-sponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act.

A growing body of science has documented widespread human exposures to toxic chemicals in everyday products, and has linked those exposures to the rising incidence of a number of serious chronic diseases and disorders, including reduced fertility, learning disabilities, breast and prostate cancer, and certain childhood cancers.

This is unacceptable. The time has come to give the EPA enough authority to require that chemicals be tested for safety before they are put into the products we use every day. Updating the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) is critical. The current TSCA law is widely acknowledged to be ineffective. TSCA ‘grandfathered in’ 62,000 chemicals at the time it passed without requiring any testing or demonstration of safety. In the ensuing three decades under TSCA, EPA has required testing for only a few hundred of those chemicals, and has only partially restricted five. This long-awaited, landmark legislation to update TSCA is necessary to protect the public from toxic chemicals.

The Safe Chemicals Act includes a number of essential reforms that would substantially improve public health protections:

*Require EPA to identify and restrict the "worst of the worst" chemicals, those that persist and build up in the food chain;

*Require basic health and safety information for all chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market;

*Reduce the burden of toxic chemical exposures on people of color and low-income and indigenous communities;

*Upgrade scientific methods for testing and evaluating chemicals to reflect best practices called for by the National Academy of Sciences; and

*Generally provide EPA with the tools and resources it needs to identify and address chemicals posing health and environmental concerns.

Please take action now to update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) by co-sponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act in order to provide vigorous oversight of chemical use and to ensure all products, including children's products, are safer. I urge you to support this effort to lead us into a new era of safer chemicals and healthy families.

Thank you for your leadership.

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