Just a heads up, this is one of the cleaners they are using to sanitize carts and baskets and some areas within stores. PLEASE, clean your produce if you are purchasing at a store.

This is a quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) known as alkyl dimethyl ethyl benzyl ammonium chloride and is being sprayed not only to clean but also diluted on your vegetables at fruit at many stores right now.

This compound has been proven to cause asthma/ respiratory disturbance and reproductive toxicity in peer reviewed studies(see below for links).

We need to be conscious of what we are doing with these cleaners, we are creating more issues by not just using soap and water.  PLEASE talk to your local stores and ask them to do better.

Links for your review:

http://www.aoecdata.org/Default.aspx

https://med.nyu.edu/pophealth/sites/default/files/pophealth/QACs%20Info%20for%20Physicians_18.pdf

https://www.ewg.org/guides/substances/151669-AlkyldimethylethylbenzylammoniumchloridesC1218/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623815300319

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