Target takes serious first step to address toxic chemicals

By Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Director, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families

You spoke up, and Target listened. It was a mere nine months ago that we launched our Mind the Store campaign with the goal of working with, and moving the nation’s leading retailers towards safer products.

Your voice and engagement in this campaign has been part of the reason retailers have been taking concerns about toxic chemicals seriously.

Today we are celebrating another victory because Target announced an impressive first step in the Mind the Store challenge.

As you may remember, we hadn’t heard a response from Target’s leadership team for the first few months of our campaign, but recently we’ve had very productive and positive interactions with their Sustainability Team.

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