A new study found that out of 172 product categories, 105 contained Prop 65-listed chemicals that can cause harm.
"For many categories of products there's no requirement to list ingredients so there's no easy way to tell what's in a lot of products," said Megan Schwarzman, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Public Health.
"The list of toxics that we were working from is the Proposition 65 list, so it's really only these three categories, that is, chemicals that cause cancer, chemicals that cause reproductive harm, and chemicals that cause developmental harm," Schwarzman said. Some of the categories containing the most chemicals overall are adhesives, paint removers, vehicle care products, and mothballs, to name a few.
Experts say there is no easy way to figure out what's bad and good if a product doesn't list ingredients, but there are a few general rules.
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