Amy Ziff

Amy Ziff

Amy Ziff is founder and executive director of MADE SAFE®, America’s first nontoxic certification verifying that everyday household products, ranging from baby to beauty and furniture to fashion items, are made with safe ingredients not known to harm human health or ecosystems. The goal is to use the marketplace to bring about change in order to eliminate the use of harmful ingredients and materials.

Amy pioneered the Made With Safe Ingredients Screening Process and led the building of the organization’s revolutionary Toxicant Database, to create one of the most rigorous human health safety standards on the market. She spends her days helping companies innovate safer and more sustainable products.

Amy is a seasoned entrepreneur and award-winning brand marketer with a Masters in Journalism and Communications. She is also a certified health coach obsessed with living a low-tox life. She and her husband live outside of NYC where they are raising three kids and a dog named Milkshake while tinkering with growing their own food.

Amy regularly writes about the chemical world we live in at www.madesafe.org and speaks at events around the world.

Articles by Amy Ziff

ASK MOM DETECTIVE: Can Plastics Be Detected in Sweat?

MOM DETECTIVE answers two questions from a member in Michigan: “Is it possible to have microplastics in your sweat?” and “Can a person consume too many microplastics?”

ASK MOM DETECTIVE: What’s Being Done About PFAS Chemicals?

MOM DETECTIVE answers a question from a member in Maine: “What is currently being done at the federal and state level to outlaw PFAS (forever chemicals)?”

Winter Sports. Winter Olympics. Winter Chemicals.

From head to toe, your winter gear may be covered with PFAS “forever” chemicals.

Microplastics in Baby Poop

A new study found that babies had over 10 times the amount of microplastics particles in their feces compared to adults.

What We Know and Don’t Know About Plastic Pollution

A new report identified over 10,000 chemicals in the manufacturing and production of plastics. The report, with its worrying long list of chemicals, gives us a glimpse at the problem, and a place to begin to find solutions.

The Toxic Chemicals in Cosmetics That Never Leave Your Body

A recent study found that nearly half of cosmetic products tested contained toxic “forever chemicals” – per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS).

Healthy Home Cleaning Tips to Avoid Toxins

Here are spring cleaning tips for safe and effective toxic-free home cleaning.

Count Down: How Everyday Chemicals Threaten Fertility

COUNT DOWN by Shanna Swan warns that everyday chemicals from products and foods are harming our fertility and reproductive health.

Mom Detective: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere

Studies report that plastics are a severe threat to our children’s health. Here’s why and what to do about it.

Mom Detective: Covid, Climate and Chemicals

Having fewer harmful chemicals in our bodies and the world means the ecosystem can begin to recover and become more resilient. And helping to improve the health of the ecosystem can help our polluted world.

Mom Detective: What to Do About Laundry and Plastic Pollution?

35% of ocean plastic pollution comes from the plastic fibers we wear and wash. Starting with the laundry, our Mom Detective shares ways to reduce plastic pollution in our homes.

Climate Change Up Close and Personal at Raising the Green Bar (video)

A scientist experiences the devastating effects of climate change on his home and family, and shares his personal account and an important message for all of us.