What you should know about household toxins
By Gordon Powers, Sympatico / MSN Finance
In their recent book Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects our Health, authors Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith talk about detoxing by abstaining from everyday consumer products known to contain pollutants, and then loading up on the common, brand-name products in order to measure the effect on their bodies.
The result, over a two-day period using brand-name deodorant, toothpaste, soap and shaving cream was a sharp increase in triclosan, a common anti-bacterial agent that, they maintain, has been identified as a potential carcinogen and reproductive toxin.
And their 'things that are bad for you' list goes on.
Although criticized as soft science and scaremongering by some, the book does document how we’re exposed to small amounts of chemicals over many years and that their effects may not be immediately evident.
That’s why Seventh Generation, a popular maker of environmentally responsible products, has launched a tool that helps consumers make healthier choices by better understanding the ingredients in common cleaning products.
The company's new label-reading guide contains a searchable and browsable list of ingredients that explains what each ingredient is, what it is used for, and what effect it has.
It's available as a free download for both Mac and Windows and also as a mobile phone app, so you can look up ingredients while shopping at the grocery store.
Although not as dire an issue, Greenpeace has also launched an iPhone app that lets you compare brands of facial tissues, toilet paper, and paper towels to find which products are most environmentally sustainable. The watchdog's ranking is based on percentage of recycled content and the bleaching method used.
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Human and Animal Cancer Evidence Prompts Review of Fluoride
California EPA Committee Designates Fluoride as Priority for Review for Public Warnings about Risk of Cancer to Consumers
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On May 29, 2009, over protests by the lobbyists for the American Dental Association and the Personal Care Products Council who oppose further evaluation of fluoride as cancer-causing, the State?s Qualified Experts that comprise the Carcinogen Identification Committee, as advisers to California EPA?s Office of Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), never-the-less established fluoride and its salts as meriting the highest priority they can recommend for further review toward including fluorides on a Prop 65 list of chemicals for which warnings for risks of cancer, birth defects, and reproductive toxicity are to be publicly posted.
Toothpaste and other household oral use products, contain Fluorides...Fluoride is a poison, and it is recommended on the toothpaste products in the U.S.A. to call a poison control center if swallowed more than is required for brushing...This warning is being omitted in CANADA and many other countries???