Industry/Sector: Healthcare
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
Nail salon employees work with products that contain harmful chemicals. Nail salon workers can reduce their
exposure to the chemicals that may cause reproductive harm. This fact sheet offers guidance on how to reduce
your patient’s exposure to chemicals. These strategies will help your pregnant patient protect her health, her
pregnancy and her job.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
A look at the health hazards associated with toxic
exposure in nail salons and recommendations for
improving conditions for nail salon employees and
customers.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
This document could not have been developed without the vital partnerships we
established with our pilot nail salons and many individuals and organizations from the
Asian-American communities in Houston, Texas, as well as federal, state, and local
government agencies that lent their time and expertise.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
Research over the past ten years has identified
significant health and environmental issues related to
some of the active ingredients used in disinfecting
products.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
Products used to kill or reduce microbes are actually antimicrobial “pesticides”.
Antimicrobial pesticides are categorized based on the type of microbial “pest”
they are formulated and tested to be effective against1
.
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
Soiled surfaces provide conditions for pathogenic microbes (germs), including viruses, bacteria
and fungi, to survive outside of the body. They can serve as “reservoirs” for germs that can
transmit them to people who touch them (indirect contact transmission).
Industry/Sector: Healthcare
EPA’s Antimicrobial Division maintains lists of disinfectants selected for use on common
pathogens (microbes that cause disease, AKA germs). They do this because disinfectants are
formulated and tested to be effective against specific germ(s).
