Are household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcast
00:00:0000:00:00Science WeeklyScienceAre household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcastOur 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. The toxic chemicals hiding in your home – and how to avoid themSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Photograph: Choreograph/Getty Images/iStockphotoExplore more on these topicsScienceScience WeeklyHygiene
- ▪00:00:0000:00:00Science WeeklyScienceAre household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcastOur 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.
- ▪The toxic chemicals hiding in your home – and how to avoid themSupport the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Photograph: Choreograph/Getty Images/iStockphotoExplore more on these topicsScienceScience WeeklyHygiene
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| Original publisher | The Guardian — Science |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/sep/29/science-weekly-cleaning-products-chemicals-podcast |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:52 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T04:14:41.496Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T04:14:41.496Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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00:00:0000:00:00Science WeeklyScienceAre household cleaning products damaging our health? – podcastOur 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 harmMore ways to listenApple podcastsSpotifyRSS FeedDownloadPresented by Madeleine Finlay, with Rebecca Seal, produced by Madeleine Finlay and Helena Selby, sound design by Joel Cox, the executive producer…
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