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Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E Ruth Winter See book keywords and concepts

Esters of phosphinic and phosphonic acids, which are used as plasticizers, insecticides, resin modifiers, and flame retardants. • Pyrophosphates, which are the basis for many insecticides that inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme necessary for nerve transmission. Tetraethyl pyrophosphate (TEPP), which is highly toxic, was developed during World War II. • The phosphoric esters of glycerol, glycol, and other fatty alcohols that are used in fertilizers. Organophosphates, pesticides, and insecticides can be extremely toxic. They can kill quickly or slowly depending on the amount of exposure.

Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise Debra Lynn Dadd See book keywords and concepts

Additional flame retardants include tetrakis hydroxyl-methyl phos-phonium (THP), phenol, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), and polychlorinated bi-phenyls(PCBs). Flavors More than fifteen hundred different petrochemical-derivative flavoring agents are currently in use. Usually they are listed as a group as artificial or imitation flavors, although occasionally a particular flavoring, such as vanillin, will be listed separately.

Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide Arthur C. Upton, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

PBBs are used as flame retardants. There is scant human evidence on the effects of PBBs; however, there have been reports of immune system effects. (In 1973, cattle in Michigan ingested large amounts of PBBs when they ate contaminated feed, and widespread pollution of meat and dairy products resulted. Tests on persons in the area found lowered counts of white blood cells and widespread white-cell abnormalities.) Dioxin, the most intensively studied of these compounds, appears to affect humoral and cellular immunity.

A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Ruth Winter, M.S. See book keywords and concepts

Among the many other uses are beads in necklaces, model making, flame retardants, dental cement, flooring, plastic gloves, adhesive tapes, plastic panties, and handbags. They are used to coat household appliances, in wall panels, cements and mortars, in road surfaces, in rigid foams, as a matrix for stained glass windows, as a metal finish, in antirust paints, and as fillers for cracks in cement. EPSOM SALTS • See Magnesium Sulfate. EQUISETUM ARVENSE and HIEMALE • See Horsetail. ERGOCALCIFEROL • Vitamin D2. ERGOSTEROL • Provitamin D2. Derived from yeast or fungus ergot.

1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products Grace Ross Lewis See book keywords and concepts

WINE ETHER ETHYL PELARGONATE Products and Uses: In alcoholic beverages (cognac essence), perfumes, and flame retardants. For flavorings and perfumery. Precautions: An irritant to eyes and lungs. Synonyms: CAS: 2524-04-1 ? ETHYL NONANOATE ? WINE ETHER ? ETHYL PCT ETHYL PHENYLACETATE_ Products and Uses: Popular ingredient in honey, butter, fruit flavoring, beverage flavoring, creams, ices, candy, and bakery products for food product flavoring, perfume, aromas, and scents. Precautions: In large amounts it is moderately toxic by swallowing.

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Cotton-flannel-covered rubber sheeting by the yank Beds_ Harmful materials: dyes, flame retardants, plastics (polyester, polyurethane). At the Store/By Mail Natural beds + Bright Future Futons. Crib-sized futons with cotton muslin covets, filled with non-flame-tetatdant cotton batting or organically grown cotton batting. Blankets_ Harmful materials: dyes, pesticides (mothproofing), plastics (actylic, nylon, polyester). Lai Natural blankets Berea College Student Craft Industries. Wool baby blankets in regular and thermal weave. Natutal colot. ^ Nontoxic blankets A Baby Is a Gift.

Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients Vitamin E Ruth Winter See book keywords and concepts

Also used as a solvent for paints, nail polish, lacquers, thinners, coatings, shellacs, adhesives, metal cleaners, rust preservatives, fuel system antifreezes, asphalt removers, flame retardants, high-octane gasoline blends, rotogravure printing processes, and glue, and is being used to replace more toxic benzene solvents in many products. Obtained from petroleum or by distilling balsam Tolu. Resembles benzene but is less volatile, flammable, or toxic. May cause mild anemia if ingested, and it is narcotic in high concentrations. Being tested at the U.S.

The Politics of Cancer Revisited Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Clearly there is substantial evidence that, besides smoking, involuntary exposures to occupational and industrial environmental carcinogens are major and generally avoidable contributors to the burgeoning national cancer burden and to a wide range of other chronic diseases. Vigorous public health measures are essential to reduce such exposures. * Science. 236:271-280 (1987). f John Bailar, McGill University, Montreal; Eula Bingham, University of Cincinatti Medical School; Donald L. Dahlsten, University of California, Berkeley; Peter Infante, Washington, D.

Breaking Out of Environmental Illness: Essential Reading for People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Allergies, and Chemical Sensitivities Robert Sampson, M.D. & Patricia Hughes, B.S.N. See book keywords and concepts

These trigger and/or perpetuate affective and cognitive disorders as well as related somatic disorders to give the presentation seen in MCS. They suggest that those most vulnerable to kindling from low-level environmental chemicals would be (hose genetically predisposed to certain affective spectrum disorders such as depression. Within this model, psychiatricly healthy individuals could also develop chemically induced symptoms, but only from higher concentrations or longer exposure periods.10 The work of Goldstein and Bell et al.

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