!!!!Tests Find Toxics in Broad Array of Consumer Products!!!

People really need to start caring about their health more. Thanks for the article!

no problem. i agree, consumer groups should be fighting to get this shit out of our products.

[link to www.organicconsumers.org]

How Toxic Are Your Household Cleaning Supplies?

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The most acutely dangerous cleaning products are corrosive drain cleaners, oven cleaners, and acidic toilet bowl cleaners, according to Philip Dickey of the Washington Toxics Coalition. Corrosive chemicals can cause severe burns on eyes, skin and, if ingested, on the throat and esophagus. Ingredients with high acute toxicity include chlorine bleach and ammonia, which produce fumes that are highly irritating to eyes, nose, throat and lungs, and should not be used by people with asthma or lung or heart problems. These two chemicals pose an added threat in that they can react with each other or other chemicals to form lung-damaging gases. Combining products that contain chlorine and ammonia or ammonia and lye (in some oven cleaners) produces chloramine gases, while chlorine combined with acids (commonly used in toilet bowl cleaners) forms toxic chlorine gas.

Fragrances added to many cleaners, most notably laundry detergents and fabric softeners, may cause acute effects such as respiratory irritation, headache, sneezing, and watery eyes in sensitive individuals or allergy and asthma sufferers. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has found that one-third of the substances used in the fragrance industry are toxic. But because the chemical formulas of fragrances are considered trade secrets, companies aren't required to list their ingredients but merely label them as containing "fragrance."

Other ingredients in cleaners may have low acute toxicity but contribute to long-term health effects, such as cancer or hormone disruption. Some all-purpose cleaners contain the sudsing agents diethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA). When these substances come into contact with nitrites, often present as undisclosed preservatives or contaminants, they react to form nitrosamines - carcinogens that readily penetrate the skin. 1,4-dioxane, another suspected carcinogen, may be present in cleaners made with ethoxylated alcohols. Butyl cellosolve (also known as ethylene glycol monobutyl ether), which may be neurotoxic (or cause damage to the brain and nervous system), is also present in some cleaners.

Chemicals that are so-called "hormone disruptors" can interfere with the body's natural chemical messages, either by blocking or mimicking the actions of hormones. Possible health effects include decreased sperm counts, increased rates of male birth defects such as cryptorchidism (undescended testicles) and hypospadias (where the urethra is on the underside of the penis), and increased rates of some kinds of cancers. The alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs) used in some detergents and cleaners have been shown to mimic the hormone estrogen; one APE, p-nonylphenol, has caused estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells to multiply in a test tube study.

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Thread: Carbon dioxide is necessary for green living plants to grow and produce oxygen.

yes the chemicals are killing the planet, but that quote isn't really fully-related, esp the CO2 part.

You guys are going to (and its already happening) be so obsessed with your health, and trying to live to be 150 years old, that you are going to forget about being human and having fun.

And the more you do this, the more you will be bombarded with BS, and the more likely you are in the near future, to stop going outside, and even talking to other people.

And once this happens, "they" will be able to do whatever they like because you will be all too afraid to appear in public because of "toxic air", or germs.

:(

Of course otherwise they would not have patients for their medical industry complex. No profit in healthy people.
Google each ingredient on what you eat and you'll learn to eat better.
Also avoid HGS and aspartame food/drinks like any type of light soda.

This just proves what Ron Paul advocates. There is no confidence in the FDA or the EPA for their strict measures for human safety in products! It takes independent resources to do that!!!!

GO RON PAUL!!!!!!!!

THEY, want us that obsessed about health. Didn't you notice since 2000 the amount of "Talk to your doctor" ads on TV? Didn't you notice that every product now advertises using health as a hook? "Eat our cereal and you wont be fat" "use our pill and you wont have a heart attack" Its ALL Brainwashing.

THEY have been trying to get us tied up and obsessed with our health for the past 15 or so years, and we as a people are sicker than ever.

Its about tying up your mind with health fears, until its all you think about, meanwhile THEY can do as they please.

Why do you think there will never be a cure for cancer.

Its the ultimate control mechanism. Big brother doesn't want you doing something? BAM Out of the blue it "causes cancer"

Its all about control.

No obsession is required just knowledge.

After knowledge, the rest is rather effortless, as it just becomes common sense.

It's a lot about improving your quality of life while you're living.

There's no fear involved in making informed decisions to improve ones quality of life.

It's quite the opposite actually.

The talk to your doctor thing is pharma looking to push pills.

Smart people are health conscious. It's the #1 investment a person can make in their lives. Getting someone to think along these lines is not a control mechanism. It's beneficial to the individual directly.

Companies look for angles to sell products is maybe what you're getting at.

Smart educated people have an active interest in something that is known to be health promoting.

Always has been, always will be that way. Human nature.

90% of the food you see on the shelves exists as product of greed. Whatever sells. Most of it is not really food anymore.

Companies know this, and are catering to health minded individuals, as there is big money to be had there.

The same companies also cater to fast food junkies as well. In fact most food in your local supermarket is catering to the junk food lifestyle.

You can't have much fun when you're not healthy. And if you start your life by having fun consuming all this toxic garbage you'll be unhealthy by the age of 30.

all products sold in the US are safe because they have been approved by a government agency. why would they want to let harmful products get onto marketplace shelves?

Piece of shit




BS, my ass.

Your health is literally the most important thing you own. Without it, you have NOTHING.

This cocksucker shill (or just plain IDIOT) would have you ignore the fact that people are dying from all kinds of diseases that are a result of chronic exposure to all kinds of toxic metals and chemicals.

This asshole tries to make it sound as if you are crazy to want a healthy life, and as if people who are good stewards of their own health (since no one ELSE will be, certainly not doctors) are "obsessed.

Why don't you just kill yourself, and get it overwith, you dumb Aussie. You, and all of the idiot UK tards, and Nethertards on this forum. You people are the lowest form of pond scum on earth.

I've been eating pink slime for years...

That list looks healthy compared to that shit.

"Some all-purpose cleaners contain the sudsing agents diethanolamine (DEA) and triethanolamine (TEA). When these substances come into contact with nitrites, often present as undisclosed preservatives or contaminants, they react to form nitrosamines - carcinogens that readily penetrate the skin."


omfg

Well, aren't you just the bright little ray of sunshine?

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Great Post Digital, thanks for the insight.

For fucks sake people, they have to get rid of their toxic waste *somewhere* don't they?

How about not making it in the first place?

People think that ignorance is bliss, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Ignorance is freely chosen misfortune, sickness and unhappiness.