Stacy Malkan
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 But in Europe, that was just about to change. The european union (EU) was getting ready to pass a new amendment to the Cosmetics Directive, the law that regulates cosmetics in all EU countries (15 countries at the time). The new amendment would ban animal testing of cosmetics, which was getting a lot of press attention, but it would also do something else that had slipped under the media radar: it would ban chemicals that were known or highly suspected of causing cancer, birth defects or genetic mutation from use in cosmetics. |
Mark Lynas
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 A related question arises with the European Union's target of 5 per cent biofuels in its vehicle fleet by 2010. Much of this will come from biodiesel, and a major feedstock for this is palm oil grown on plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia. These plantations have been responsible for disastrous clear-cutting of the fast-declining natural tropical forests, destroying the habitat of rare species like the orangutan and causing major additional carbon releases through the burning of wood and underlying peat. |
Devra Davis
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 The european union recalled some children's bath products because they were found to contain 1,4-dioxane. European manufacturers had known for some time why 1,4-dioxane forms and also how to get rid of it cheaply. Until now, American manufacturers haven't needed to do so.
People like my son and daughter-in-law have assumed that products they buy to bathe my young grandchildren in would be especially safe. Like me, they were shocked to find that this was not the case.
When Steinman's book came out in February 2007 reporting that tests showed 1,4-dioxane in U.S. |
| One place they are not is in the twenty-five nations of the european union. The EU has banned asbestos, as has Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Japan, Argentina and Gabon. As of this writing, America and Canada, still one of the world's top producers, have not.29
Why do you suppose that today half of all cases of mesothelioma in American, French and Italian women have no known history of exposure to asbestos?30 There are two possible answers. Either mesothelioma is caused by something else that has yet to be identified that occurs widely throughout these nations. |
| The european union is trying to phase it out. But business is booming in China and India. In the United States, the Vinyl Institute (VI) awards member companies for improved environmental performance. Its website proudly notes that in 2006, the CertainTeed plant in Sulphur, Louisiana, and the Shintech plant in Freeport,Texas, won VI's Environmental Excellence Award for the fifteenth consecutive year. The 2006 award is based on outstanding performance in 2005, under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP). |
Bill Sardi
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 Promotion of cigarette smoking is a worldwide problem. The european union is paying tobacco farmers $1.1 billion in subsidies annually, which is 50 times more than the amount allotted to funds for reducing cigarette smoking. The subsidies are handed out to about 135,000 farmers, mostly in Greece, [Journal National Cancer Institute 95: 1187-88, 2003]
Tax and smoke
The government claims it invokes taxes on cigarettes to inhibit smoking. |
Devra Davis
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| The european union bans it from personal care products. The United States does not have the authority to do so, does not monitor levels in baby shampoos and bubble baths, and does not recommend limits for this substance in these products.
David Steinman, leader of the Green Patriot movement and author of a new book Safe Trip to Eden, is also the father of young children. As an environmental journalist he knew enough to ask about complicated long-named chemicals that could be in children's bubble baths. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The most popular brands give the impression that they are totally natural whereas in truth they contain synthetically derived sweeteners. The european union has urged producers to label these beverages "With sweetener," but surveys have shown that up to 50 percent of consumers would then no longer buy these products.
The same applies to sucralose, the sweetener behind Splenda®. Disguised by its lovely sweet taste, it is yet another Frankenstein food additive of the industry. It is produced by chlorinating sugar molecules. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Although the european union is moving toward requiring companies to register thousands of chemicals with a new regulatory agency that places the burden on industry to prove that chemicals are safe, rather than on scientists to prove that they are unsafe, that is quite the opposite of the way we do business in the United States. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Other big suppliers are India, Mexico, the european union, and the United States. Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California, and Texas are, in that order, the United States' leading producers.
Why Should I Eat Eggs?
The quality of egg protein is the highest of any whole food product, second only to human breast milk. Eggs are also a good source of the amino acid tryptophan, selenium, vitamin B2, and vitamin B12, and are one of the rare sources of natural vitamin D. Eggs are a good source of choline, which is important for brain function, gene regulation, and heart health. |
Mark Lynas
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The table illustrates how hopelessly inconsistent current climate policies are - even of some major environmental groups. The european union has mentioned (though not formally adopted) a 550 ppm target, whilst at the same time demanding that global temperature rise be kept below two degrees. In all likelihood, as the table shows, 550 ppm means four degrees plus runaway positive feedbacks. |
Stacy Malkan
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| The attached statement from the CTFA said the European Union's new Cosmetics Directive (which banned 1,100 ingredients from cosmetics) "represents an unnecessary change in the philosophy of regulations of cosmetic ingredients in the EU. First of all, it may remove valuable ingredients from use in the EU. In addition, it ignores exposure information that would be used to assess whether there could be any harm from the use of such ingredients." The statement explained that in the US the cosmetics industry and FDA work together to ensure the safety of products. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| The european union has been moving aggressively to remove phthalates from nail polish. Phthalates are often used in nail polish so that it doesn't chip as readily. In the United States, where regulators wait for proof before taking action, a few major cosmetic makers are electing to eliminate phthalates from nail polish since they have had to reformulate their products for the overseas market. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 It has been estimated that approximately eight million people in the european union member states in 2000 had Alzheimer's disease. Since this disorder accounts for about 50% of all dementia in people over 65, total estimates for dementia in Europe are closer to 16 million. As in North America, the European population is aging rapidly and the number of senile dementia cases is increasing accordingly.7 Clearly, in the Western World, dementia is not a rare problem. Indeed, R. |
Stacy Malkan
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| The european union, using a precautionary approach, has already banned certain phthalates from children's toys, as well as cosmetics. But in the US, consumer products can contain unlimited amounts of phthalates and most other hazardous chemicals. And even though toy manufacturers are already making phthalate-free toys for Europe, toys sold in the US still contain the chemicals, according to product tests conducted by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2006. |
| Last week, the european union ordered a phase-out of two phthalates in cosmetic and beauty products.
Today, the U.S. Cosmetics ingredient Review Panel will decide whether American consumers will be protected.
Safe alternatives to phthalates are already being used in many beauty products. Now is the time for the federal government—and for companies like Calvin Klein and Unilever—to act decisively.
After all, Eternity is a long time.
Learn more at wrww.NotTooPreffy. |
| Upon learning about the european union Cosmetics Directive and the growing concerns about toxic ingredients, "We had one reaction to new knowledge, and that was, how can we use this new knowledge in the most productive way?" Morris said. "But a lot of companies, and a lot of individuals, resist new knowledge. They resist change. They're afraid of change. They want to delay it. They want to postpone it. They want to make believe they didn't hear anything."
Now in the midst of its third wave, the natural products industry has bright prospects ahead. |
| The letter explained the European Union's new Cosmetics Directive and asked the companies to sign a Compact for Safe Cosmetics, a pledge to replace hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives within three years.
The Compact for Safe Cosmetics asked companies to do four things:
1. Remove EU-banned chemicals from all products sold anywhere in the world.
2. Inventory all products for chemicals of concern, including ingredients that are persistent, bio-accumulative, toxic to the brain or reproductive system, carcinogenic, mutagenic, endocrine disrupters or sensitizers.
3. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Food and Drug Administration and the european union currently regulate triclosan, and the Environmental Protection Agency classifies this substance as a probable human carcinogen.
Toothpaste manufacturers claim that triclosan is used because it helps to reduce plaque and kill bacteria, but it actually aids in gum damage and can cause mouth ulcers, say some health experts. These companies like the chemical because it allows them to state the product is a "99.9% bacteria killer" and make claims about the product being a "medicated formula. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This month, "at an EU conference hosted by Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the European Union's leaders announced their intention to ban incandescent light bulbs, for the 490 million people living within the EU's 27 countries, by 2010," according to the website. This new legislation being pondered by the EU calls upon member states, "along with EU encouragement [to] immediately launch public information campaigns on the economic and environmental advantages of efficient lighting systems and maximize existing legislation to facilitate the phasing-out of the incandescent bulb. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Its use for treating food for human consumption is banned in the european union, Canada, Mexico, and most other countries.
It is The Cornucopia Institute's contention that even if independent research concludes that treated almonds are in fact safe, labeling them as "raw" is misleading and deceptive to consumers, many of whom wish to purchase truly raw, unprocessed almonds. "Raw foods are increasingly in demand. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is occurring through the effort to destroy the sovereignty of nations and to force us into a global totalitarian state through an incremental process such as exhibited by the european union. Currently, there is indeed an effort to create a carbon copy of the european union between Canada, the United States and Mexico, and it is via that effort that the Pharma Cartel is attempting to destroy our access to dietary supplements.
Conversations on Health Freedom
Mike: We'll talk about that in a lot more detail, but first let me introduce the concept of health freedom. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| Canada is the leading producer and exporter of flax, followed by China, the United States, India, the european union, and Argentina. States with the greatest flax production in the U.S. include North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Why Should I Eat Flax?
Flaxseeds are a rich source of omega-3 fats. They are an excellent source of soluble and insoluble fiber, beneficial for regulating cholesterol, blood glucose, and digestion. Flax is a superb source of lignans, plant compounds that act like a weak form of estrogen. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Nature Biotechnology Regarding insertion-site mutations: "Detailed inspection has shown that mutations such as these would almost certainly pass unnoticed through both the molecular and pheno-typic characterization stages of the regulatory systems of both the european union and the United States. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Regulatory battles are ongoing or looming on the horizon over issues that range from limiting pesticide residues to controlling greenhouse air pollution emissions to reining in diesel truck exhaust (in regard to which the european union is even more reluctant to take action than the United States is) to banning persistent chemicals such as bromine-containing flame retardants.18 Detailing each and every one of these examples is not necessary. The general principles that have been elucidated in this book are also applicable to these issues. |
Mark Schapiro
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 European Union were watching; they had been trying to orchestrate end runs around rising EU authority for the past three years. A posse of public relations experts from Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton, and other expert opinion shapers and manipulators, representing dozens of U.S. companies, was watching, for the results would determine whom among Europe's 756 legislators they would be courting, and the challenges ahead for their corporate clientele. |
| Those were the essential ingredients of what is now the european union, which began with a 1952 pact between France and Germany to permit free trade in the two commodities most critical to postwar reconstruction. Jean Monnet, the postwar French diplomat and visionary behind the "Coal and Steel Pact," saw early on that tying together the fates of Europe's antagonistic powers through economic links was the most effective way to ensure peace, and to navigate the rebuilding of a continent shattered by six years of war. |
| In 2007, he said, Procter & Gamble changed its policy to reflect this global shift: it would begin formulating according to a single standard, that established by the european union. "We will no longer use anything on the EU's banned list," he said. The EU would henceforth "provide the basic guidance for our product formulation," as would all recommendations from the Cosmetic Ingredient Review boards, which it agreed to abide by in every instance. The company issued a statement to that effect on the Web site of its British subsidiary. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 For no small number of interested parties, the appropriate endgame was a world split into self-contained, protectionist trading blocks, resembling in some respects the original vision of a european union with its porous internal borders and common currency.
This reassessment and realignment of international interests, together with a diminished respect for the United States' role as global agenda setter, underscored another transformation that was under way. In a July 2006 article, "Russia-U.S. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Japan has similar legislation on the books, which in some instances is actually more restrictive than that of the european union. Argentina and Brazil have been devising new laws based largely on the principles of the Cosmetics Directive. This year China instituted a list of forbidden chemicals in cosmetics based almost entirely on the EU's negative list. After newspapers in Korea publicized the EWG's report, thousands of irate women converged outside the corporate offices of Unilever in Seoul, the nation's capital. |
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