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Overuse of Antibiotics, And Antibacterials Stop buying soaps, hand-wipes and cleaning agents whose vendors lure you with the label "antibacterial". by Ralph Nader Reading a recent issue of Public Citizen's excellent Health Letter titled "Know When Antibiotics Work," I recalled the recent tragic loss of a healthy history professor who was rushed to a fine urban hospital, with a leading infectious disease specialist by his side. No antibiotics could treat his mysterious "superbug." He died in 36 hours. Wrongful or…
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Is It Real Coconut? by Lucie Herbs, minerals, fats, oils, wax – these are all ingredients used in beauty products. The label says, ’24-hour organic moisturiser’ – it sounds fine. A quick check of the ingredients shows ‘coconut’, followed by ‘DEA (diethanolamine)’. You love coconut, so that’s great – right? Wrong. 89% of the 10,500 ingredients used in personal care products have not been evaluated for safety. I’m sorry to say that this ‘coconut’ has nothing to do with the…
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Bad Reaction To A Beauty Product? If you experience an adverse reaction to a product, call your local doctor or seek medical care right away. Then report your experience to the FDA as soon as possible. Mail: Write to the Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Colors and Cosmetics, 200 C Street, S.W., Washington, DC, 20204. Phone: Or call the FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator in your state; to obtain the telephone number of…
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The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 For the first time in 70 years, Congress is ready to close the gaping holes in the outdated federal law that allows chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other illnesses in the products we use on our bodies every day. On July 21, Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., introduced the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 (H.R.5786), which gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority…
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Friday, 23 July 2010 00:35
Changing Safety For Cosmetics And Beauty Products
Written by BeautyCritics
Changing Safety For Cosmetics And Beauty Products Concerns over possible carcinogens and other toxic ingredients in cosmetics has prompted calls from both Congress and the industry for tighter regulation of the chemicals used in those and other personal care products.In Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) introduced a bill on Tuesday calling for cosmetics makers to register with the federal government and for larger cosmetics firms to pay user fees to enforce the regulation.The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 also would…
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Annie Leonard does it again. This time she tells us about all those products in the cosmetics aisle that we use so many of every day (12 for women, 6 for men, on average). If you're familiar with her wildly successful Story of Stuff, you know what you'll get in this 8-minute video: the startling facts, delivered in a way that makes sense to all of us. So if you've ever read a label in the cosmetics aisle and, brow…
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Phthalates Researchers tested levels of four kinds of phthalates in the urine of pregnant women; they examined 134 of the baby boys, ages 2-30 months, born to those women. While none of the boys showed clear malformation or disease, in the 25 percent of mothers with the greatest exposure to phthalate: The odds were 10 times higher that their sons would have a shorter-than-expected distance between the anus and the base of the penis. (This measurement is an indictor of…
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FDA Acknowledges Potential Harmful Effects of Antibacterial Chemical Triclosan FDA Acknowledges Potential Harmful Effects of Antibacterial Chemicals NRDC, Rep. Ed Markey, Urge Agency To Take Further Action to Protect Public By Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Common Dreams, April 8, 2010 WASHINGTON - April 8 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged today the antibacterial chemical triclosan is no more effective than regular soap and water at preventing infections. The agency also expressed concern about the development of…
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Absorbing Toxic Chemicals Did you know that putting toxic chemicals on your skin can be far worse than ingesting them? This is in large part because when you eat something the enzymes in your saliva and stomach help break it down and flush it out of your body. When the chemical cocktail is delivered into your blood stream via your skin, however, it bypasses this built-in protective filtration process, so you have decreased protection against the toxins. The average woman…
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