Dollar stores across the United States and Canada are selling products that contain a large number of toxic chemicals, including children’s toys, according to a new study published on April 12.
The study was conducted by the consumer advocacy group, Campaign for Healthier Solutions, and focused on all of the leading dollar store retailers in the United States and Canada: Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Five Below, and 99 Cents Only Stores.
It found that more than half of the items purchased by researchers at the stores contained one or more chemicals of concern.
At the start of 2021, researchers bought 226 products from stores across the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, New Mexico, Washington, Maine, and Texas in the United States and Ontario in Canada. In total, the products contained 635 unique components or materials.
The products were then tested using various methods depending on the typical chemicals of concern for that specific product type.
In total, researchers found that more than half (53 percent) of the products screened had one or more “chemicals of concern” that are hazardous.
Aren't those same products sold in all grocery stores as well? Was the article to smear the inexpensive stores or to point the finger at China. Most packaged products on store shelves have a paragraph of ingredients that are not food, and are probably 'Chemicals of Concern".
To add to your concern, even products that aren't labeled as totally deadly are probably bad too. Maybe you trust the people who made BPA to come up with a cheap and readily available alternative, but personally i doubt BPA 2.0 is any better. Plastic in general is bad stuff.
That's why I recommend an whole food plant based diet- meaning no processed foods or hormone treated meats. I switched to that diet and lost 30 lbs in 6 months, dropped my cholesterol from 211 to 157, and my BP went from 135//80 to 110/65.
The Dr wanted to put me on statins and BP meds, I said let me change my diet and see what happens. He was skeptical at first. 6 month later when I came in for my check up, He was shocked. He' a believer now.
The study was conducted by the consumer advocacy group, Campaign for Healthier Solutions, and focused on all of the leading dollar store retailers in the United States and Canada: Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Five Below, and 99 Cents Only Stores.
It found that more than half of the items purchased by researchers at the stores contained one or more chemicals of concern.
At the start of 2021, researchers bought 226 products from stores across the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, New Mexico, Washington, Maine, and Texas in the United States and Ontario in Canada. In total, the products contained 635 unique components or materials.
The products were then tested using various methods depending on the typical chemicals of concern for that specific product type.
In total, researchers found that more than half (53 percent) of the products screened had one or more “chemicals of concern” that are hazardous.
Aren't those same products sold in all grocery stores as well? Was the article to smear the inexpensive stores or to point the finger at China. Most packaged products on store shelves have a paragraph of ingredients that are not food, and are probably 'Chemicals of Concern".
To add to your concern, even products that aren't labeled as totally deadly are probably bad too. Maybe you trust the people who made BPA to come up with a cheap and readily available alternative, but personally i doubt BPA 2.0 is any better. Plastic in general is bad stuff.
That's why I recommend an whole food plant based diet- meaning no processed foods or hormone treated meats. I switched to that diet and lost 30 lbs in 6 months, dropped my cholesterol from 211 to 157, and my BP went from 135//80 to 110/65. The Dr wanted to put me on statins and BP meds, I said let me change my diet and see what happens. He was skeptical at first. 6 month later when I came in for my check up, He was shocked. He' a believer now.