Policy Initiatives
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners is committed to reducing toxic chemical exposure and fostering healthier communities through advocacy to prevent breast cancer.How do laws help prevent breast cancer?
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) advocates for health-protective laws (i.e., policy advocacy) because systemic change is crucial to reducing breast cancer risk and improving public health. While individual actions, like choosing non-toxic products, are important, these alone aren’t enough to protect people from toxic chemical exposures in consumer products, workplaces, and communities. On the other hand, policy change addresses these risks at the source by creating health-protective standards that apply to industries and protect everyone, especially vulnerable populations.
Federal Policy Advocacy
FDA Ban on Formaldehyde in Hair Products
BCPP and its Campaign for Safe Cosmetics are calling on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the FDA to swiftly finalize and implement its proposed ban on formaldehyde and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals in hair smoothing and straightening products—and to expand it to other hair products like shampoos and styling gels. See our action here.
Safer Beauty Bill Package
BCPP is championing the Safer Beauty Bill Package, a groundbreaking set of bills designed to eliminate toxic chemicals from beauty and personal care products. This legislation aims to protect health, ensure transparency, and promote safer products for all. Reintroduced in the 119th Congress by Rep. Jan Schakowsky and her House co-authors in July 2025, the bills include:
Defending our health by protecting US Chemical Safety Law
BCPP and the Alliance for Health and Safe Chemicals, a national coalition of public interest groups, oppose the weakening of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to protect our health from harmful chemical pollution. See our action here.
CA State Policy Advocacy
CA Safer Food Packaging Act (AB 1148)
BCPP is co-sponsoring this bill to ban two chemicals and groups of hazardous chemicals in packaging materials that contact food or beverage. The chemicals that would be banned are Bisphenols and Ortho-Phthalates.
California Ban on Bisphenols in Receipts: AB 1604 C
BCPP is co-sponsoring this bill to ban bisphenol chemicals from printed receipts, to lower our daily exposures to these hormone disrupting chemicals, and reduce their pollution to the environment.
Science-based Community Engagement
California Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan
BCPP continues to build on our groundbreaking, first in the nation state-wide prevention plan, Paths to Prevention: the California Comprehensive Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Plan. We completed a project that worked with environmental justice communities around the state to share information on breast cancer risk factors and learn their priorities for interventions to reduce those risks. Planning for the next phase is underway, including potential projects to look at drinking water contaminants in CA’s Central Valley and Central Coast and developing tailored educational materials, with and for underserved communities, that will hopefully lead to advocacy efforts.
Policy Victories
Check out the 20 health-protective state and federal bills that passed thanks to our breast cancer prevention advocacy efforts.
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FEATURED VIDEO
BCPP: Exposing the Cause is the Cure
We’re preventing breast cancer before it starts by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals and radiation.