Friday, June 20, 2014

STOP SHOE COMPANIES AND RETAILERS SUCH AS WAL-MART, KENNETH COLE, SAKS, MACYS, WHOLE FOODS, AND OTHER RETAILERS FROM PUTTING RODENT POISON IN OUR SHOE BOXES!


STOP SHOE COMPANIES AND RETAILERS SUCH AS WAL-MART, KENNETH COLE, SAKS, TOMS, WHOLE FOODS, AND OTHER RETAILERS FROM PUTTING RAT REPELLENT IN OUR SHOE BOXES!



Did you know that many brands of popular and expensive shoes, including infant and children’s shoes arrive in the U.S. inside boxes containing chemicals which is an active ingredient in rat repellent? Please take a moment to call the retailers below and ask them to stop now.

Here’s the inside story: most shoes shipped to the United States travel long distances by cargo ship, and need protection from the sea environment. In order to prevent damage, shoe companies place chemically treated stickers inside shoe boxes to help prevent mold and fungus. These stickers are supposed to be tested and approved by the EPA as safe, but most are not. These unapproved chemical stickers fail to identify the potentially dangerous, harmful ingredients they may contain and are marked simply with the words “anti-mold”. 

Consumers like you are subjected to potential dangers when shoe companies use unregistered, unproven, and untested chemical stickers in their shoe boxes.  We need to stop these unapproved chemical stickers from entering our homes.

Unapproved chemical stickers are used in top retailers like Wal-Mart, Kenneth Cole, Saks, Macys, TOMS, Whole Foods, Nordstrom’s, Dillard’s, Bob Ton, Belk, Amazon, Zappos, TJX, Footlocker, and other retailers; and in popular brands such as:

•             Aerosoles
•             Born
•             Calvin Klein
•             Coach
•             ECCO
•             Eurosoft
•             Isola
•             Kenneth Cole
•             Liz Claiborne
•             Minnetonka
•             Rocket Dog
•             Roxy
•             Sofft Shoe Co.
•             Spoftspots
•             Vera Wang

Consumers and workers handling these materials have a false sense of comfort and security.

These boxes are often later used to store baseball cards, family photos or even small pets.

LA Times: Suit alleges shoe boxes contain ingredients in rat repellent

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shoebox-lawsuit-20140423-story.html

These stickers come in a number of colors, sizes and names – so how does the consumer know which are registered with the EPA and which are not? 

Unapproved shoe box stickers contain ingredient in rat repellent

According to news reports, one ingredient of these antimicrobial stickers not registered with the EPA is allyl isothiocyanate, a chemical used in rodent and insect repellents, in crop chemicals and fumigants, and in defense sprays.  


PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!

Please call the retailers below. Tell them to ask their suppliers to stop buying shoes packaged with unapproved chemical stickers.


CONTACT THE RETAILERS

Wal-Mart
William S. Simon
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
(479) 273-4000

Doug McMillon
President and CEO, Walmart International
(479) 273-4000

https://twitter.com/Walmart

Kenneth Cole Productions
Kenneth Cole
CEO
kennethcole@kennethcole.com
https://twitter.com/mr_kennethcole

Samantha Cohen
Senior Director of Global Public Relations
scohen@kennethcole.com
(212) 830-7454
Macys
Timothy Adams
Chief Private Brand Officer

William Allen
Chief Human Resources Officer

Jeffrey Gennette
President

Saks Fifth Avenue
Ronald L. Frasch
President
(212) 940-5305

Janine Bolin
Customer Relations Liason
(865) 981-9541

Stephen I. Sadove
CEO
(212) 940-5305

Whole Foods
Walter Robb
CEO

John Mackey
CEO

Nordstrom
Erik B. Nordstrom
Executive Vice President, Director and President of Stores
(206) 628-2111

Peter E. Nordstrom
Executive Vice President, Director and President of Merchandising
(206) 628-2111

Blake W. Nordstrom
Principal Executive Officer, President and Director
(206) 628-2111

Dillard’s
William Dillard
CEO
(501) 376-5200

Alex Dillard
President
(501) 376-5200

Bon-Ton
Brendan Hoffman
CEO

Belk
Thomas Belk Jr
CEO
(704) 357-1000

Amazon
Dave Clark
VP Worldwide Operations and Customer Service
(206)266-1000

Jeffrey Wilke, Senior Vice President – Consumer Business

Jeffrey Bezos, founder and CEO

Zappos
Tony Hsieh
CEO
ceo@zappos.com
TJX
Ernie Herrman
President
(508) 390-1000

Jeffrey Naylor
Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
(508) 390-1000

Carol M. Meyrowitz
Chief Executive Officer and Director
(508) 390-1000

Footlocker
Ken Hicks
CEO
(212) 720-3700


3 comments:

  1. This is scary to me as a mother of 3 young children. I need to be comforted that all products for them are safe and not harmful.

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  2. I understand that the Micro Pak product is registered with the US EPA and is completely safe.

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    1. This appears to be correct. According to the media reports, Micro Pak does not use Allyl isothiocyanate, is registered with the EPA, and has in fact initiated a lawsuit against other, non-compliant manufacturers. Please see the article from the LA Times here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shoebox-lawsuit-20140423-story.html

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