Use your voice to ban toxic chemicals in menstrual products!

Send a Letter to Ask Governor Hochul to Protect Our Health and Ban PFAS and Other Toxic Chemicals in Period Products!

Did you know companies have been using toxic chemicals in menstrual products for decades? Chemicals like: formaldehyde, PFAS, lead, and mercury. The presence of these toxics cause health issues like reproductive challenges, weakened immune systems, and even cancer. Over a lifetime, a menstruator will spend up to 84,000 hours actively on their period and will use as many as 10,000 products; products contaminated by the companies they are purchasing from. That ends now.

The Ban on PFAS & Toxic Chemicals in Menstrual Products Bill (S.1548/ A.1502) will ban toxic chemicals in period products. The bill has passed in both houses and is now on its way to Governor Hochul's desk to sign into law.

Tell Governor Hochul not to wait, and to sign the bill into law today! Help make a difference by sending Governor Hochul a letter today!

This letter will go directly to Governor Kathy Hochul's office. By sending this letter, you are using your right to advocate for us all. Here you will find a sample letter. This letter is ready to send on its own. However, it will be most powerful if you take a couple minutes to make the sample text your own. Here are some tips: keep it relatively short, and keep the "ask" - to support a legislative ban of toxic ingredients in menstrual products - close to the top. This would be a good time to discuss a personal experience that you feel is relevant to this bill. Are you a healthcare professional, teacher, or parent? Share how hidden harmful chemicals can affect the people you work with and care for.

Once you click “send letter”, congratulations, you are officially an advocate! You have used your voice to make New York a cleaner and healthier place.

Thank you!

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Period product users need urgent protection from companies using toxic chemicals as ingredients

Dear Governor Hochul,

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People who menstruate need urgent protection from companies using toxic chemicals as ingredients in period products that are detrimental to consumers' lives. Please sign the Ban on PFAS & Toxic Chemicals in Menstrual Products Bill (A.1502/S.1548). This necessary bill will remove toxic ingredients like: formaldehyde, PFAS, lead, and mercury from period products millions of people need to use on a regular basis.

Over their lifetime, people who menstruate will spend up to 84,000 hours actively on their period and potentially use more than 10,000 menstrual products that are contaminated with these toxic chemicals. These toxic ingredients are a known hazard and cause health issues like, organ damage, decreased immune function, thyroid problems, reproductive challenges, and even cancer. You have the chance to protect them.

In these turbulent times, more than ever we need states like New York to lead the way, not only to safeguard our residents, but also to drive the national marketplace. Governor Hochul, we are counting on you to do the right thing; sign this bill to take a stance on companies poisoning their consumers.

Thank you.

Sincerely, [Your information here]