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I feel a kindred spirit with all of those suffering radiation poisoning for they, like us who live
with chemical injury, are too often ignored or, worse, stultified, by those charged with protecting
public health. We have been injured and disabled by circumstances beyond our control.
Too many have paid the supreme price: Premature death. -- barb
"BERKELEY -- It's a common sight during an X-ray: TheFind through search:
technician leaves the room and makes the exposure from a shielded place."One University of California, Berkeley, professor thinks it might
be a good idea for most of us to join the technician out of the
X-ray's path. Too many X-rays over many years may kill you, just
like fallout from an atomic bomb, says John Gofman,
professor-emeritus of molecular and cell biology. . . . "
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eNewswires.com
http://www.enewswires.com/sfbnews.html
See EHN's page G, Genetic Engineering
Also see EHN's info on Royal Commission on Genetic Modification , below
RANT Magazine
„Hey, your car stinks!¾
"W hat is the deal with CAR AIR FRESHENERS? Are these people using CAR
deodorizers the same demographic that use HOME air fresheners? Things have got
to be pretty bad for someone to use an air freshener in their house... think about this. ..."
http://www.netwit.com/carfresh.htm
Dr. Doris Rapp
" An engineer was wearing an air pollution monitor while touring theBut this article, too, ignores the superfluous toxins in fragrances used in personal care and
Los Angeles freeway system. He forgot to turn the monitor off when he arrived home
and was surpried to find that the air inside his home was 10 times more polluted than
the freeway air.' "
R.E.S.I.C.I.N.D. (Repeal Existing Stereotypes about Chronic, Immunological and Neurological Diseases)
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/
Resorts - See Hotels (http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/h.htm#Hotels)
Respirators/Masks
Also see Masks at http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/m.htm#Masks
Comes resplendent dressed in a canary yellow outfit, with her very own,
well-outgassed, double-cartridge, Willson Half Mask.
It looks similar to the one available through Lab Safety Supply.
WILLSON PREMIER HM RESP M
Comes in mask sizes S, M, L, hence that last character. It is of utmost importance that
your mask fits properly, otherwise you allow foul air inside the mask. -- barb
http://www.labsafety.com/store/product.asp?dept_id=6130&pf_id=53992
Barbie's cartridges are a fetching chartreuse and mauve (product
number 31311 on cartridge) on navy (silicon), for afterall, she is Barbie.
READ: Respirator Change Out Schedules
http://www.labsafety.com/refinfo/ezfacts/ezf196.htm
Rhinitis -
[See Perfumers World and check those two right-hand columns
http://www.perfumersworld.com/chems/material.htm -- barb]
Restaurant Associations
(PRODUCING PROFITABLE RESULTS
Restaurant Management Resources)
Why not write to them about educating against the use of fragrances in restaurants?
Dining is an olfactory pleasure. Why spoil it with toxic chemicals permeating the air? -- barb
Revolving door
"CTFA President Ed Kavanaugh, in making the announcement said, 'I am delighted that
John will be joining CTFA. He brings to CTFA excellent scientific credentials and a
great understanding of our industry and its issues based on his many years with FDA.'
"In his new capacity at CTFA, Bailey will be responsible for providing administrative and
technical support for CTFA staff and various committees and task forces dealing with
issues involving chemistry and formulation of cosmetic products, and for managing
programs in the cosmetic chemistry area. He will also be responsible for providing
support on cosmetic regulatory matters to CTFA staff and association members.
"Prior to directing FDA¼s Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment where he
was responsible for research into the safety of foods and cosmetics including molecular
biology, microbiology and toxicology, Dr. Bailey served for many years as the
Director of FDA¼s Office of Cosmetics and Colors. There he was responsible for
cosmetic enforcement and compliance activities, policy development, and setting of
overall scientific and organizational objectives. Activities of the Office also included
cosmetics and colors toxicology and chemistry research, monitoring and follow-up for
consumer adverse reaction reports, the cosmetics voluntary reporting program,
cosmetic product labeling, color certification, and color additive petition evaluations. ... "
http://web.archive.org/web/20020617152852/http://ctfa.org/viewpage.cfm?id=1543
Formerly at:http://www.ctfa.org/viewpage.cfm?id=1543
Recruiting Uncle Sam
The Military Uses a Revolving Door to Defense Jobs
By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer; Thursday, February 19, 2004; Page E01
"George K. Muellner spent more than 30 years in the Air Force, rising eventually to the
position of deputy acquisition chief. Now he's the senior vice president of Air Force
Systems for Boeing Co.'s defense unit. E.C. "Pete" Aldridge, the Pentagon's chief
weapons buyer, resigned in May 2003 and joined the board of the nation's largest
defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., a month later."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52789-2004Feb18.html
The Revolving Door: Industry Gaining Access
The Pharmaceutical Industry Gaining Access in Washington
Common Cause; June 18, 2003
" The pharmaceutical industry benefits from the „revolving door¾ between government and the drug industry ‚ pharmaceutical company executives taking key positions in the government, or vice versa. PhRMA has hired some the best-connected former Members of Congress or government officials as lobbyists for the industry. ..."
http://www.commoncause.org/action/action.cfm?artid=21&topicid=1
Richard's Pages on EI/MCS/CFS
Right-to-Know
Right-To-Know
Also, available from: http://d1.rtk.net/tri/
Remember, it's not just the toxins you get to learn about from the labels that you should concern
yourself with, but the inerts, which often have not been required to be listed on the label.
Inerts are often more toxic than the chemicals they list on the labels.
I have not seen a label for Roundup or Garlon, but according to PANUPS, a U.S. court ruled that Inerts were to be disclosed. See http://www.panna.org/resources/pestis/PESTIS.1996.133.html
Also, whenever someone is pushing the use of pesticides, or trying to marginalize them as "only
herbicides," you should take it upon yourself to look for the other side of the information.
There's more info available than I can get up on EHN's site. Search for harmful effects of the
pesticide you are told to use, or which will be used in your area. Then stand up for safer means of
"pest" control. Safer alternatives do exist! It's up to us to make sure they are used. -- barb
Pesticides
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks/ehnlinx/p.htm#Pesticides
and Monsanto
http://users.lmi.net/~wilworks//ehnlinx/m.htm#Monsanto
Adverse Effects Reporting: FIFRA 6(a)(2)
"Section 6(a)(2) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) requires
pesticide product registrants to submit adverse effects information about their products
to the EPA. The following regulations and guidance documents have been published
which provide registrants details on what, when and how to report this information. ..."
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/fifra6a2/
Pesticide Illness Surveillance (pesticide illness reporting)
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/pesticides/programs/Pestrpt.html
Pesticide Illness Report form (PIR)
"OEHHA is required to produce the Pesticide Illness Report (PIR) form. This form
includes addresses and phone numbers for the local health officers to submit the
completed forms to the appropriate state agencies."
PDF file: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/pesticides/pdf/PIR_99.pdf
Triclopyr (Garlon, common brand name)
;http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/Triclopyr.pdf
"Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, has been assumed to have low animal
toxicity because the enzyme system which it inhibits is specific to plants. But studies now
show that Glyphosate can cause acute symptoms including eye and skin irritation and
nausea, conjunctivitis, vomiting and diarrhea. California statistics show that in 1994,
glyphosate ranked eighth for most number of complaints filed with the state by
people poisoned by the product.
"Glyphosate can also drift off-site during applications. Studies show that from 14-78%
of it can as far as 1300 feet downwind. Once on the ground, it can persist in soils from
3 days to a year.
"Misleading advertising has led many applicators to consider glyphosate nearly non-toxic
. In 1996, the New York State Attorney General won an injunction against the
chemical's manufacturer, Monsanto, for falsely claiming that the pesticide is as safe
as table salt. [Emphasis added. This was the very statement used in a meeting with the
Alameda County, California pesticide experts held in Oakland in April 2001. I was present. -- barb]
"The inert ingredients [emphasis added] in Roundup may pose more danger
than it's active ingredient. Japanese emergency medicine professionals reported in Lancet,
the American Medical Journal, that the "inert" ingredient in the herbicide formulation,
Roundup, accounts for the acute toxicity they had found in patients poisoned (some
fatally) by Roundup.
"Symptoms included vomiting and gastrointestinal pain, swelling of the lungs and
pneumonia, reduction of blood pressure, clouding of consciousness, and red blood cell
destruction. The "inert" ingredient they identified in Roundup was polyoxyethyleneamine
(POEA) actually referring to a family of chemicals. It is added to Roundup to help
evenly spread the active ingredient, glyphosate, on target plants.
"EPA reports that it is common for 1,4-dioxane to be present with POEA. The International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) consider 1,4-dioxane and animal carcinogen and
EPA considers it to be a probable human carcinogen.
"We continue to not know what is in Roundup and other pesticides because the
manufacturers are not required to list them on the labels and have claimed that inerts
are 'confidential business information that should not be available to the public.' EPA
allows more than 2,000 chemicals to be used as inerts - many cause toxic effects including
cancer and at least 382 were themselves used as the pesticide active ingredient.
"In fact, hazardous waste have been allowed to be 'recycled' into pesticides as inerts. You
may be spraying chemicals like xylene, chloroform, methylene chloride, toluene and
other toxic chemicals. As one misguided EPA official said, 'it's a way of disposing of
hazardous materials.'"
http://www.ccaej.org/projects/pesticides.htm
[22] Sawada, Y., 'Probable Toxicity of Surface-Active Agent in
Commercial Herbicide Containing Glyphosate' The Lancet, p. 299 (1988).
[23] Caroline Cox, Herbicide Factsheet: Glyphosate (Roundup),
Journal of Pesticide Reform, Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, 1998.
From: AGAINST THE MISUSE OF PESTICIDES ON S.B. 654, PESTICIDES ‚ EDUCATION
AND REPORTING BEFORE THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE MARYLAND SENATE, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND; MARCH 13, 2001
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/watchdog/alerts/Jay_PIR_Testimony.htm
"As part of the agreement, Monsanto will discontinue the use of terms such as
"biodegradable" and "environmentally friendly" in all advertising of glyphosate-containing
products in New York state and will pay $50,000 toward the state's costs of pursuing the
case. The Attorney General has been challenging the ads since 1991. ... "
http://www.holisticmed.com/ge/roundup.html
Triclopyr, 2000
http://www.pesticide.org/triclopyr.pdf
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PANUPS: U.S. Court Rules Inert Ingredients Must Be Disclosed. October 28, 1996.
October 28, 1996
U.S. Court Rules Inert Ingredients Must Be Disclosed
"A U.S. federal district court ruled this month that pesticide companies must disclose
information about inert ingredients in six pesticide products. The suit, filed in 1994 by the
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) and the National Coalition
Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP), charged that the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) must disclose the common names and CAS* numbers of inert
ingredients in these pesticides under the Freedom of Information Act. The pesticides
named in the suit were Aatrex 80W (atrazine), Weedone LV4 (2,4-D), Roundup
(glyphosate), Velpar (haxazinone), Garlon 3A (triclopyr) and Tordon 101 (picloram and 2,4-D). ..."
http://www.panna.org/resources/pestis/PESTIS.1996.133.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/monsanto.html
Long document: http://www.rowatworks.com/Science/IDS-Overlaps/IDS-Full/index.html#Anchor-Conclusion-16322
INVISIBLE CRIPPLES
MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY, Part 1
"YOU DON'T SEE PEOPLE with chemical sensitivities in the hardware store, ..."
©1998 S.C. Rowat; Draft 3 (1997)
http://www.rowatworks.com/Science/To_Do_No_Harm/Invisible_Cripples.html
Peace Movement Aotearoa is the national networking organisation for those
concerned about peace and related issues.
Written submissions to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
Deadline for written submissions: 1 December 2000, which is at odds with 23 March 2001 date above. -- barb
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/rcgmupdt.htm
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