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Degrees Episode 05: Boma Brown-West

EDF + Business

Boma advising grad students on safer consumer products. Boma Brown-West is leading the charge to eliminate toxic chemicals from our food and consumer products. The good news: Boma and her team are having success in transforming what goes into products and ends up on store shelves. Explore all episodes. .

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2 keys to the future of sustainable fashion

EDF + Business

Boma Brown-West, Director, Consumer Health. Boma Brown-West participated on the Index’s Sustainability Council, a committee of experts who provided advice on the methodology. Guidelines are not as effective as requirements and incentives that tie back to main, material business objectives.

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Ensuring your lab is capable of testing for heavy metals in food

EDF + Business

By Boma Brown-West. Boma Brown-West, Senior Manager of Consumer Health. Companies, including labs, interested in participating should contact EDF’s Boma Brown-West at bbrown@edf.org by February 15. It is essential that anyone evaluating foods for heavy metal contamination (e.g.

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Reducing your chemical footprint: Taking charge

EDF + Business

By Boma Brown-West Buying more sustainable products is now the expectation of U.S. There are three key parts to identifying the toxic chemicals in your business and jumpstarting action on those chemicals that have the greatest material impact on your chemical footprint: Boma Brown-West, Senior Manager of Consumer Health.

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As e-commerce soars, are companies like Amazon, Walmart and eBay being transparent about the products they sell?

EDF + Business

Boma Brown-West, Senior Manager, Consumer Health. Follow Boma on Twitter. Now, online shopping is at an all-time high, with total e-commerce spending in the U.S. hitting $82.5 billion , up 78% year-over-year. For context, it typically would have taken four to six years to see the current level of growth we are at now.

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Plastic, paper or glass? What companies need to know about chemicals lurking in food packaging

EDF + Business

Boma Brown-West, Director, Consumer Health. From allergy warnings and nutritional information, to fair trade and organic, finding healthy, safe food options isn’t always easy. Now, more shoppers are becoming aware of another concern: Chemicals in food packaging that are winding up in our bodies.

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Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products

GreenBiz

We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product,” Brown-West said. EDF+Business envisioned SustainaBuy as a way to weave sustainability into the entire shopping experience, Brown-West said.

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