The clothes you drop off at the dry cleaners are going to be handled a little differently now that the EPA has issued a ban on two chemicals that are commonly used for stain removal.
The colorless solvents, known as Perc or PCE and TCE, can cause kidney cancer and other serious health issues. Safer alternatives to PCE and TCE are becoming widely available, Freedhoff also told ...
Both chemicals are known to cause liver and kidney cancer. TCE can also damage the central nervous system, immune system, reproductive organs, and cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: a blood cancer ...