Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These chemicals are acquired through foods (chemical additives) and the environment (chemicals in consumer products and work environments, primarily). Laundry products may play a significant role in the total chemical burden of typical consumers.
The use of commercial laundry detergents containing synthetic chemicals potentially exposes infants and children to harmful substances. The widespread use of fabric softeners and dryer sheets creates yet more chemical exposure through contaminated clothing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Read the ingredients labels of all consumer products in order to make sure they do not contain triclosan. |
| Over 95% of the uses of triclosan are in consumer products that are disposed of in residential drains. In a U.S. Geological Survey study of 95 different organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, triclosan was one of the most frequently detected compounds, and in some of the highest concentrations," according to the NCAMP.
According to Worldwatch Institute: "In the United States, 75% of liquid soaps and nearly 30% of bar soaps now contain triclosan and other germ-fighting compounds whose prevalence can foster the growth of bacterial resistance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is published under the protection of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and it is offered as entertaining public commentary for the purpose of stirring thoughtful debate over the current use of pink ribbons to market consumer products containing (or producing) cancer-causing substances. Any resemblance to actual product names, company names or non-profit names is purely coincidental. In no way does this parody piece intend to imply that non-profit cancer groups would endorse tobacco (although doctors and non-profits certainly did decades ago). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| No data exist to support their efficacy when used in such products or any need for them…it may be prudent to avoid the use of antimicrobial agents in consumer products."
The chemical company states: "Ciba supports the use of triclosan only if there is a benefit to human beings."
So, what if it is shown to offer no benefit to humans? Will they pull it off the shelves now that evidence points to its danger from exposure? (Some toothpaste manufacturers, like Tom's of Maine, specifically state that they do not contain triclosan. |
Michael Pollan
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 Nutritionism solves the problem of the fixed stomach, as it used to be called in the business: the fact that compared to other consumer products, demand for food has in the past been fairly inelastic. People could eat only so much, and because tradition and habit ruled their choices, they tended to eat the same old things. Not anymore! Not only does nutritionism favor ever more novel kinds of highly processed foods (which are by far the most profitable kind to make), it actually enlists the medical establishment and the government in the promotion of those products. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In the end, it seems that the lessons that pharmaceuticals, industrial materials, and potentially toxic household consumer products have to teach us are not all that different from one another. A new family of calcium-lowering cancer treatment drugs, it turns out, is causing an upsurge in cases of osteonecrosis of the jaw, which hasn't been seen since the days of phossy jaw in the nineteenth-century match industry. |
| With sufficient data, a better-informed public could theoretically adjust its demand for the supply of potentially hazardous consumer products in the first place, short of absolute restrictions. Yet in the face of a greater public need for information, product labels and other manufacturers' safety data that could provide a key source of consumer information are often out-of-date and inadequate.
Even those involved in industrial use of potentially hazardous products suffer from inadequate protection. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 His unrelenting efforts finally resulted in the banning of lead from gasoline, paint, and other consumer products and to stricter standards for airborne lead levels.33 Physicist George Zweig, who in 1964 was one of the first theorists to propose the reality of quarks—which have since been verified as the most fundamental of all subatomic particles?was denied a post at an American university because a prestigious faculty member claimed his work was that of a charlatan.34
The problems of "doing science" persist even today, and perhaps the difficulties are worse than ever. |
Ann N. Martin
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 In 1999, one of the largest and most unlikely mergers on record took place when Proctor and Gamble, makers of consumer products such as Tide, Bold, Vicks, and Puffs, purchased lams for $2.3 billion. A self-educated animal nutritionist, Paul lams, had founded his company in 1946, and produced Eukanuba, and lams dry and canned dog and cat food.
The new owners, Procter and Gamble, announced that lams—once sold in specialty stores and veterinary clinics—has a new goal: "lams is sending its sales reps on a mission to make lams available everywhere P&G's are sold. |
Mark Schapiro
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 They walked me along shaded pathways reminiscent of a community-college campus—past low-slung buildings now filled with scientists, pollsters, and sales representatives, the men and women behind one of the biggest chemical users for consumer products on earth. Inside those buildings, the company conducts confidential experiments to come up with the next wave of new or improved products. |
| China sells $19 billion a year worth of chemicals to the European Union, and billions more worth of chemical-containing consumer products. All would be subject to REACH.
One week after REACH'S final passage in December 2006 in Strasbourg, Zhang Xiangchen, director of the World Trade Organization Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commerce, announced in comments reported by the Xinhua News Service that the Chinese government would immediately begin consulting with local industries to help them comply with the new European directive. |
| In addition to substances in their raw form, REACH also extended to consumer products that utilized chemicals—thus tens of thousands of "downstream users," from construction companies to tennis-shoe manufacturers to fashion houses to the creators of synthetic aromas, would be impelled to pay attention to the collateral effects of the substances used in their products.
The proposal flipped the American presumption of innocent until proven guilty on its head, by placing the burden of proof on manufacturers to demonstrate that their chemicals could be used safely. |
| There was great political anxiety in Europe when we discovered that carcinogenic and bio-accumulative chemicals were being released from consumer products like diapers, from softeners in baby toys, and then from the jerseys of German soccer players," Robert Donkers recalled. By mimicking the body's own hormones or lodging in fatty tissues, bio-accumulative chemicals are generally not expelled through the normal excretion mechanisms of the human body; instead, they "accumulate" inside the body, releasing their toxins slowly, over time. |
David Steinman
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 PVC causes breast cancer in animal and human studies, and PVC residues or metabolites [which are by-products of the original compound] are absorbed from consumer products like the Beanie Baby, possibly by little girl who is in love with her Beanie. But, nonetheless, a PVC Princess Beanie Baby is rare and fetches a higher price. Okay, that's the free market, where scarcity creates values, and it all makes sense in a weird way.)
"Do you think these toys are bad for the environment?" I ask him as he cradles his newfound friends.
"Are you crazy or something?" he says. |
| I had learned earlier that a state public right to know law, also known as Proposition 65 and passed in California in 1986, listed 1,4-dioxane as a causable chemical if found in unregulated consumer products. Proposition 65 was cowritten by former deputy district attorney Barry Groveman, who had risen to fame as Los Angeles County's most aggressive toxics prosecutor and is the mayor of the City of Calabasas. The law requires the State of California to compile a regularly updated list of chemical carcinogens and reproductive toxins. |
| Green chemistry is defined as the efficient, pollution-free production of industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products. The genius of green chemistry is to find ways "to develop ever-better chemical products and processes that require fewer reagents, less solvent, and less energy to produce, while being safer, generating less waste, and increasing profitability," said Science & Technology.11
The concept of green chemistry was formally established at the Environmental Protection Agency about fifteen years ago in response to the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. |
| Today, Greenpeace is regarded as having first alerted shoppers to the widespread hazards of PVC in ordinary consumer products. www. greenpeace.org
Natural Resources Defense Council
The NRDC has worked in all areas of the environment from toxics by taking on Alar in the 1980s to promoting sustainable forestry and fisheries. Their top flight attorneys are in the thick of legal battles to protect our natural resources. www.nrdc.org
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy is critical to preserving deep ecological reserves throughout America and the world. www.natureconservancy. |
Mark Schapiro
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| However, regarding most other chemicals, those to which we are exposed daily in everyday consumer products, there is little such information. The women in the Parliament that day wanted to increase their odds against those hidden chemical risks.
All of the women looked vigorous and healthy, except for the intravenous stands rattling alongside them. Carrying these props of illness, the women passed through the Parliament like some specter of mortality from the world outside —which of course was the point. |
David Steinman
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| New Hampshire-based manufacturer of natural and organic yogurts and ice cream, enjoys a strategic partnership with Groupe Danone (Danone), the France-based consumer products company known for its sales of bottled water, dairy products, and biscuits. Stonyfield is the largest organic yogurt producer in the world and the third largest yogurt brand in America. Over the last decade, Stonyfield has enjoyed the fastest compounded annual growth rate (24.3 percent) of any U.S. yogurt brand. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 While many of the techniques drug companies use to market their wares are no different from those used to sell other consumer products, drugs are not like cars or iPods. They alter the body in profound ways, and they all have side effects, some worse than others. In redefining diseases, marketers have done more than sell product; they have blurred the definitions of wellness and health. They have changed the way consumers think about themselves and transformed huge numbers of formerly healthy people into patients who view themselves as sick. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, consumer products and the Environment's Non-Technical Summary concludes, "The new research estimates that a woman drinking an average of two units (drinks) of alcohol per day has a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer 8 percent higher than a woman who drinks an average of one unit of alcohol per day. The risk of breast cancer further increases with each additional drink consumed per day." Both the National Cancer Institute and Dr. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The greedy pharmaceuticals would have us believe that we cause our own problems and their consumer products are never at fault.
Increase the Price!
Here is a parallel example of this deluded corporate mindset, whereby patients of another chronic disease are manipulated for profit. In a news release dated 2004, the AIDS Foundation filed an antitrust and restraint of trade lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories. Novir, the "old" AIDS drug, underwent a five-fold increase (from $50/month to $250/ month). |
| In other words, the pharmaceutical corporations feel they are the only ones who need to know how pure their consumer products are.
A logical consideration, based on facts presented in the GeneWatch article, would be that incomplete processing, broken rDNA strands, mutant insulin creations, and other impurities in the rDNA process would be more difficult to separate from media-cultural broth than would foreign contaminants from animal pancreatic extracts because all insulin molecules have been formed properly.
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Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 The escalating use of chemical-based consumer products inside such homes can be a recipe for disaster, especially in consideration of the fact that the average person spends upwards of 90 percent of his time indoors. Chemical contaminants in buildings contribute to "sick building syndrome," which is in reality "sick.person syndrome," a result of time spent in contaminated buildings. Such exposure can give rise to environmental illness, a growing problem today estimated to affect 40 million Americans (and an area of specialization for some progressive physicians). |
| Today heavy metals are extensively used as components of countless consumer products, though the consumer is generally unaware of their presence in the seemingly harmless product. They are widely used in all forms of industry, agriculture, food processing, cosmetics, personal care products, household products, and so on. Most of us are familiar with what happens when we want a newer, faster computer or digital device that's been outdated by new technology. We have to discard the old hardware, which becomes electronic waste—and a main source of lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium. |
| It is allowed in unlimited amounts in consumer products, drinking water, and food, the top exposure source for most people. The lack of enforceable limits has resulted in widespread contamination of canned foods at levels that pose potential risks.
Modern-day pots and pans fare no better in their chemical makeup. When you use a Teflon-coated pan or storage unit (perhaps to avoid the legendary toxin aluminum underneath), you could be trading convenience for toxicity. |
Bill Sardi
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 Medical Hypotheses 20: 117-24, 1986]
Cancer Promoter
Other 1% consumer products 3% Nuclear Medicine 4%
HA is a molecule comprised of glucuronic acid and glucosamine that gels water. It is a water-holding molecule that is produced by fibroblast cells. Water is the great detoxifier and diluter of the body. When young, humans produce large amounts of hyaluronic acid. Cancer occurs in the latter years of life, when HA levels in the body are low.
The research of Dr. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| CHAPTER 10
DETOXIFICATION AND YOUR HEALTH
It's no surprise that detoxification has become a prominent treatment as people have become more aware of pollution, both in the general environment and from things like consumer products and common householdcleaning agents. It is estimated that one in every four Americans suffers from some level of heavy metal poisoning. Heavy metals, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic, are by-products of industry. Synthetic agriculture chemicals, many of which are known to cause health problems, are also found in food, air, and water. |
| Other than natural triggers like pollen and dust, pollutants that trigger asthma and allergies can be found in both indoor and outdoor environments—pesticides, tobacco, soot, car exhaust, engine fuel, cleaning supplies, and any man-made chemical used to manufacture consumer products or "protect" things such as furniture, upholstery, mattresses, and carpets.
It's no surprise that we've seen a corresponding rise in allergies with a rise in environmental toxins. This can set off a double whammy? |
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