Health Risks From Dry Cleaning Remain Low

See Does a Ban on Dry-Cleaning Chemicals Mean You Should Change Your Routine? by Sumathi Reddy of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"For the average person picking up their dry cleaning and wearing a dry-cleaned suit, the health risks from Perc are small, says Diana M. Ceballos, an assistant professor at the University of Washington in Seattle’s department of environmental and occupational health sciences. 

Residue can stick on clothing, vaporize into the air and be inhaled. But those exposures for most consumers “are not super high and they’re sporadic,” she says."

"Nigel Brockton, vice president of research at the American Institute for Cancer Research, says the general population’s exposure to these chemicals is likely very limited.

​“It’s a good thing that [the EPA] are eliminating these carcinogens but unless you’ve had substantial exposure, either through occupation or through industrial contamination of your environment, we would still say focus on the factors that you can control,” says Brockton, who recommends activities like eating a healthy diet and limiting alcohol."