My guest is Jeff Gearhart, Research Director for HealthyStuff.org, a project of the Ecology Center that tests brand-name consumer products for the presence of a list of chemicals of concern. They then rate products as being of high, medium or low concern. Jeff has worked for over 20 years on a wide range of environmental issues including air quality, pollution prevention, life cycle assessment, consumer product testing, and green chemistry. During his sixteen years with the Ecology Center he has spearheaded numerous chemicals policy market campaigns, co-authored multiple peer-reviewed articles on toxics in consumer products, pioneered citizen science in the use of x-ray fluorescence technology for toxics testing in products, and developed the now internationally recognized HealthyStuff.org product chemistry disclosure project and its extensive website of robust advocacy resources and the product testing results of more than 100,000 products. We’ll discuss the project, what they do, their recent report on toxic chemicals in garden products, and specifically how their research can guide us when choosing gardening gloves and garden hoses. www.healthystuff.org