Article from the LA Times on February 18th:

“The makers of Tide, Ajax and other common household cleansers are being asked to come clean about their ingredients. 

Environmental and health activists announced plans Tuesday for a lawsuit to make Procter & Gamble Co., Colgate-Palmolive Co. and two other major firms reveal the chemical ingredients of their cleaning products and their research on the products’ effects. The suit, to be filed today in New York, seeks to use a little-known 1976 New York law passed to combat phosphates in detergent. 

The activists “say people deserve to know whether the products they use to wash their dishes and clean their homes could be harmful,” said New York lawyer Keri Powell, an attorney for Earthjustice, a nonprofit public interest law firm.

Responding to the lawsuit, the Soap and Detergent Assn. expressed disappointment that activist groups were “using an arcane New York state regulation as a way to disparage cleaning product formulators whose products are used safely and effectively by millions of people every day.” 

The industry plans a major push next year to make more information available about ingredients, said Michelle Radecki, general counsel of the Washington-based group. It represents 110 cleaning product manufacturers that together make more than 90% of U.S. cleaning products. ”The cleaning product industry is committed to providing more information than ever before on cleaning product ingredients,” she said.”

What do you think about the lawsuit? Is it necessary to provide extensive ingredient information on the everyday products we use? It could force companies to be more compliant with safety and environmental regulations….Comment below and let us know what you think!