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What’s In Your Cleaning Products?

April 23, 2016 By Julie Watts 3 Comments

New parents tend to top the list of people concerned about toxic cleaning products. So, like many, I went out and bought the brands that appeared to be green and had names or slogans that implied they were “natural” or “kid safe.”

Now, as a consumer reporter, I am well aware that those claims are largely unregulated and companies are not required to disclose all the ingredients in their porducts. However, as a busy working mom, I rarely have time to research each ingredient (unless it’s for a story), so I generally take claims as a loose guide.

The Environmental Working Group’s latest update of their Healthy Cleaning Guide caught me by surprise.

It ranks more than 2,500 products—with grades ranging from A to F—based on their safety and transparency of ingredients. The guide has been around since 2012, but EWG just added an additional 400 products.

When reviewing the updated list, I noticed one baby brand we often use at home (that ends in “ganics”) got a variety of different ratings on EWG’s guide ranging from A-D. Same products, different ratings.

It just goes to show how often manufacturers are changing formulations and ingredients, and how hard they are to track.

After producing a quick KPIX consumer segment last week, I invited one of EWG’s data analysts on this morning for a live interview during our Saturday ConsumerWatch segment (tune in Saturday mornings at 7am on CBS!)

Samara Geller said they were shocked to find more than half of the products tested are still getting a poor score for ingredient disclosure.

 

EWG stresses the point of their guide is not to scare people away from using products, but rather to give consumers access to information that is not readily available and that manufacturers are not required to print on the bottle.

The guide is also obviously intended to encourage the industry to increase disclosure about ingredients. EWG is currently working on new legislation that would require more disclosure.

BabyGanics did not respond to a request for comment, but in a statement, the cleaning product industry said:

More information is available than ever before on cleaning product ingredients, which companies are providing on labels, websites, smartphone apps, toll-free numbers and other non-electronic means…

…products must meet all applicable federal and state quality, safety and labeling regulations.

– American Cleaning Institute

Check out our original story on CBSSF for a summary of some of the most suprising findings:
Environmental Group’s Updated Study Exposes Toxic Cleaning Products
« CBS San Francisco

Here are some additional NewsMom resources:

EWG’s Best and Worst Cleaning Products

EWG’s Press Release
(Products with the most worrisome ingredients in the footnote at the bottom.)

EWG’s Guide to Baby Cleaning Products

HealthyChild.org’s Blog on the Updated Guide

 

Julie Watts
Julie Watts
Julie is the consumer-investigative reporter for CBS in San Francisco. Her reports air nationally on CBS stations across the coun ...Read More

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