Are household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcast

Our use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist Rebecca Seal recently wrote for the Guardian about the potential impacts of the many chemicals we now use in our homes. She tells Madeleine Finlay how social media has also played a role in transforming our cleaning habits, why the impact of indoor air pollution is so hard to study, and what the current evidence is that cleaning products may be causing harm Help, my sofa is killing me! The toxic chemicals hiding in your home – and how to avoid them Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod

What is happening The Guardian reports: Our use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist Rebecca Seal recently wrote for the Guardian about the potential impacts of the many chemicals we now use in our homes. She tells Madeleine Finlay how social media has also played a role in transforming our cleaning habits, why the impact of indoor air pollution is so hard to study, and what the current evidence is that cleaning products may be causing harm Help, my sofa is killing me! The toxic chemicals hiding in your home – and how to avoid them Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod The problem The public problem in this report is the one named by the source: “Are household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcast”. A response on MLAIEL should not add a cause, a number, or a remedy the source does not state. Open the source for the detail. What a team can do on MLAIEL A team can read the research problem the source reports, separate what was measured from what is still unknown, and open a project that does not add a finding the source left out. Source The Guardian — Are household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/sep/29/science-weekly-cleaning-products-chemicals-podcast