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Publications and Media
GENERAL INFORMATION
CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative Brochure (March 2012)
Disinfectant Overkill: How Too Clean May Be Hazardous to Our Health (English, Spanish) by Women’s Voices for the Earth. (November 2009)
Disinfectants Horror Show A video by Women’s Voices for the Earth. (November 2009)
Healthy Nail Salons Brochure by King County Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle and Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (August 2009)
Techniques to Achieve Naturally Healthy Hair by Environmental Finance Center, Region 9 (2010)
Understanding the Toxic Trio (updated March 2012)
Framing a Research Agenda to Advance Worker Health and Safety in the Nail Salon and Cosmetology Communities by the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (April 2010)
Toxic Beauty No More! Health and Safety of Vietnamese Nail Salon Workers in Southern California by the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (July 2011)
Mapping The Nail Industry: Personal Care Industry Information and Profiles of Leading Cosmetics, Beauty Store and Nail Care Product Companies by Environmental Finance Region 9 and the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (2010)
Compilation of Research on Occupational Exposure to Chemicals in Salons A bibliography of journal articles by the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance (January 2010)
Workforce Demographics and Context Setting by Julia Liou, Asian Health Services
Workforce Demographics and Context Setting (Cont’d.) by Lenh Tsan, Asian Law Caucus
Environmental Health & Ethnic Hair Care by Jessica Counts-Arnold, CA EPA Region 9
Federal Oversight and Cosmetics Manufacturers: The Need for Policy Reform to Advance Worker Health and Safety by Jamie Silberberger, Women’s Voices for the Earth
How Can Working in a Nail Salon Effect your Health? by Cora Roelofs, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Cancer Risk in California Cosmetologists and Manicurists by Thu Quach and Peggy Reynolds, Cancer Prevention Institute of CA
Nail Salon Industrial Hygiene Evaluation by Tuan Nguyen & Evelyn Tovar, State Compensation Insurance Fund
Healthy Nail Salon Project: Reducing Chemical Exposures in Nail Salons by Laurie Foster, Local Hazardous Waste Management Program
Green Chemistry and Chemicals Policy by Megan Schwarzman, UC Berkeley Center for Environmental and Occupational Health
Implementing the California Safe Cosmetics Act by Michael DiBartolomeis, California Safe Cosmetics Program
Pollution Prevention for Nail Salons by Mary Kathleen Lau, California Department of Toxic Substances Control
Green or Greenwash? by Mark Deason, Aquarella
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics by Stacy Malkan, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
POLICY
Overexposed and Underinformed: Dismantling Barriers to Health and Safety in California Nail Salons by the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (April 2009)
Pedicures at What Price? by the California Senate Office on Research (December 2008)
Print and Online
Nail Salon Recognition Program Passes in San Francisco Center for Environmental Health (November 2010)
At Some Nail Salons, Feeling Pretty and Green New York Times (November 2010)
SF Nail Salons Encouraged to Go Organic and Non-Toxic KQED (October 2010)
San Francisco Nail Salons Encouraged to Use Non-Toxic Polish Environment News Service & Alternet.org (October 2010)
Mani-Pedis Go Green Hyphen Magazine (Summer 2009)
Glossed over: Cosmetic Toxins and Reproductive Justice SisterSong’s Collective Voices. (Summer 2009)
Radio
S.F. Supes OK Nail Salon Plan KQED. (October 2010)
Risky Beauty Business American Public Media. (October 2009)
Organizing Asian immigrant women and the CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative KPFK. (July 2009)
OTHER
Looking Both Ways: Women’s Lives at the Crossroads of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice by Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice in partnership with the New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Initiative (2009)