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 "Estee Lauder, Procter & Gamble and its Clairol acquisition L'Oreal, and unilever.
There are unresolved questions as to the extent to which the the Council represents the entire industry. The FDA has speculated that less than 40 percent of all U.S. cosmetic manufacturers, an estimated 1,500 rogue companies, remain unregistered (2). This is contested by the the Council, which claims that the "not registered" companies are no longer in business.
The Council's mission is "to protect the freedom of the industry to compete in a fair marketplace."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Advertisements claiming these effects, such as Unilever's New Dove Firming Lotion, or Estee Lauder's much more expensive Body Performance Anti-Cellulite Visible Contouring Serum, are problematic at best (6). 5. Antioxidants. Antioxidants are natural substances that protect our bodies against damage from free radicals. Skin is continually exposed to damage not only within, from free radicals, but without, from heat, cold, air pollutants, and, most importantly, UVA long wave radiation. Antioxidant cosmeceuticals claim to reduce or reverse this damage." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "Major corporations such as unilever in the Netherlands and the International Minerals and Chemicals Corporation in Illinois (makers of Ac'cent—MSG) undertook studies, but eventually gave up on the fruit because they found the active ingredient too complex to stabilize and synthesize.
It looked like yet another example of WAWA, an acronym for the region's many business failures: West Africa Wins Again.
In the late 1960s, a young biomedical visionary named Bob Harvey attended a lecture by Bartoshuk, whose speaking engagements at West Point were classified as top secret by the U.S."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Burgman, a director of ABN-AMRO, has since 1999 been chairman of unilever. Also on the board of ABN-AMRO is D.R.J, de Rothschild.
19 Another director of Corus, Dr Kurt Lauk, is a trustee of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, which is close to the RIIA and to the UK and US intelligence services.
European Commission in the Eighties. Claudio X Gonzalez, also on the unilever board, was special advisor to the president of Mexico between 1988 and 1994, as well as being a member of the International Advisory Council of the JP Morgan Chase bank. Then there is Senator George J."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
 "Several major cosmetics companies, including OPI, Avon, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Revlon, Proctor & Gamble, and unilever have thus far refused to sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics.
The good news is that safe cosmetics are readily available. My coauthor Genie James's favorite source for safe or "green" make up and hair color is The Body Shop. Marketing Week has reported that The Body Shop was voted the Top Green Brand in the United Kingdom and the eighth greenest brand in the United States."- C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.) |
 "That's certainly enough to warrant concerns about allergies. unilever tested their protein with the stability and amino acid sequence evaluations that are used for GM crops (see part 3). They also went a step further and looked for reactions in the blood (sera) from 22 individuals known to be allergic to cod fish. But according to Cummins, "This experiment was deceptive because the cod allergy is caused by a cod blood protein unrelated to grouper ISP."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "They're manufactured by unilever, the Dutch-based consumer products conglomerate.
And they all contain toxic chemicals called phthalates (THA-lates).
Phthalates have been shown to damage the lung, liver and kidneys, and to harm the developing testes of male offspring.
These results come from animoi tests which, according to government scientists, are relevant to predicting health impacts in humans.
Last week, the European Union ordered a phase-out of two phthalates in cosmetic and beauty products.
Today, the U.S."- Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "The ad named three companies that had not yet publicly committed to remove the EU-banned ingredients globally — unilever, Revlon and L'Oreal. "Ask them to join the growing number of toxin-free cosmetics companies and regain the trust of American women," said the ad, which ran on the same day the cosmetics industry was gathering in Manhattan for its largest conference of the year. Susan Roll, an organizer with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, brought several copies of USA Today with her to the Health and Beauty America 2004 conference." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Within two months, Revlon, L'Oreal and unilever sent written confirmation that their products would be reformulated worldwide to remove the EU-banned chemicals. A handful of hazardous ingredients were on their way out of products made by several of the world's largest cosmetics companies. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics raised a torch of victory. But the games were just beginning. Skin Deeper So what else is in cosmetics? Jane Houlihan wanted to know. She knew it wasn't going to be an easy question to answer." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Suave Lavender "Naturals" Shampoo and Conditioner by unilever have 17 problematic ingredients between them. Skin Deep tells me: 81 of the chemical ingredients in my former daily routine raise health concerns. Some highlights: • 22 daily doses of parabens, along with four other suspected hormone-disrupting chemicals. •17 hits of chemicals with limited or mixed evidence of carcinogenicity. One ingredient, petroleum distillates in my Cover Girl Marathon Waterproof Mascara, is banned in the European Union." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) |
 "Upon visiting the group's website, however, you learn that the organization's sponsors include companies that make sugary and much-like-sugar foods, including Nestle SA, Proctor & Gamble, unilever, and MasterFoods. "One can't help but wonder about the links between academics and the sources of funding," worries scientist Matthews.
We Can't Say We Haven't Been Warned
A handful of vocal medical experts have been trying to get the word out for years."- Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) |
 "Lipton "Brisk" Tea® (black tea): unilever Bestfoods North America / 800 Sylvan Ave. / Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 / U.S.A. / Tel: (800) 697-7887 / (888) LIPTON-T / Email: letters.liptontusa@unilever.com / www.liptont.com. 2.21 g tea leaf per single serve bag providing 46.9 mg total catechins (8.6 mg epicatechin, 14.2 mg epicatechin gallate, 7.0 mg epigallocat-echin, 17.1 mg epigallocatechin gallate), 11.9 mg total theafavines, 10.7 mg flavonols, 151.2 mg thearubigins and 220.7 mg total polyphenols.
Lipton® Green Tea: unilever Bestfoods North America. 2."- Mark Blumenthal, The ABC Clinical Guide to Herbs (Get the book.) |
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Kraft Foods Masterfoods USA National Restaurant Association PepsiCo Sara Lee Corporation unilever United States integrity.) Speaking from behind the cover of a seemingly bona fide health organization, Finn is well positioned to dazzle lawmakers with ostensibly authoritative and trustworthy claims about obesity and the futility of government intervention.
In addition to bearing witness before Congress, Finn has written opinion pieces for a number of major newspapers."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "DINA MEHTA [DHM]
Dina Mehta is a qualitative researcher and ethnographer based in Mumbai, India, and founder of Explore Research & Consultancy, whose clients include MTV, unilever, ESPN, and Pitney Bowes. In her ethnographic studies, Dina explores the impact of technology in rural markets and follows trendsetting youth in urban settings. In addition to maintaining her blog, Conversations with Dina (http://dinamehta.com/), Dina has contributed to WorldChanging, Tsunami Help, KatrinaHelp, Asia Quake Help, Skype Journal, and Global Voices Online."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
| "In April 1999, unilever publicly committed to remove GM ingredients from its European brands. Within a week, nearly all major food companies followed suit. The rejection by manufacturers and retailers continues to this day; it has kept GM foods out of the European Union in spite of official approvals of GM varieties by the EU Commission.
Americans remain under-informed
The same corporations that removed GMOs from their European lines, however, continue to sell them in the United States, where consumers remain uninformed of the issue." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Dove is owned by unilever, one of the largest consumer product companies in the world. unilever also owns the Finesse, Suave, Salon Selectives, and Thermasilk hair-care lines, which the Dove addition closely resembles. If anything, the Dove Hair Care line is simply capitalizing on a familiar, secure brand name and does little to diversify or improve your choice of hair-care products. For more information about Dove, call (800) 598-5005 or visit www.dove.com."- Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.) |
| "Geneticist Joe Cummins and others said that the ISP could likewise "be letting off an immunological time bomb,"42 and called for long-term safety tests. unilever refused. They claim that since the glycosylation pattern in their ISP is typical of yeast, and because yeast does not cause immune problems in humans, the protein should be harmless. This assumption, however, fails to take into account that when GM yeast was used to create human pharmaceutical proteins, the glycosylation did cause problems related to immunity and enzyme functioning." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "Case study: fish protein in ice cream To improve the taste and texture of its lowfat ice cream, unilever introduced GM ice-structuring protein (ISP), which lowers the temperature at which ice crystals grow. Although ISP is naturally found in an eel-like arctic fish called the ocean pout, isolating the protein from the fish is expensive. To make it affordable, the company inserted multiple copies of a fish gene into yeast DNA. After it produces ISP, the yeast is removed using mi-crofiltration." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Procter & Gamble and other industry giants —like Revlon, unilever, Estee Lauder, and others—have successfully opposed every effort to broaden the FDA's mandate to include cosmetics. Since the governing principles of the FDA were established some seventy years ago, entirely new disciplines of science have emerged to study the long-term effects of chemicals on the human body. But the FDA's authority over these substances has changed little. This vacuum at the heart of America's regulatory apparatus is not difficult to discover: it's right on the agency's Web Site. "- Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "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. The demonstrations prompted the head of the Korean Food and Drug Administration to fly to Washington to express his concerns to his American counterpart. He also met with Charlotte Brody, the nurse who works with the health NGO Commonweal, and other activists. The Koreans shortly thereafter imposed more stringent oversight over cosmetic ingredients than the U.S." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "Patented by unilever, the European arm of the Lever Brothers detergent company, the product was marketed as Omo Power in the Netherlands and Persil Power in the United Kingdom.
The new manganese bleach catalyst did not make it to the U.S. market for reasons that had nothing to do with either human health or the environment. The advantage of manganese bleach was purported to be its effectiveness at low water temperatures, the preferred laundry practice in Europe."- Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) |
 "Just as the mainstream household cleaning market is dominated by a few large manufacturers such as SC Johnson, Clorox, and unilever, only a few manufacturers dominate the natural marketplace as well.
Near Seventh Generation's booth, which was lined with nontoxic cleaning products, recycled paper products, and dioxin-free diapers, companies such as Ecover and Earth Friendly also had booths with similarly touted products.
If competition is the sign of a healthy marketplace, then the marketplace for natural cleaning products is quite healthy."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "The Olivio brand from Lee Iacocca and unilever may advertise its Mediterranean origins and "rich buttery taste," but that taste comes from a blend of liquid canola oil, partially hy-drogenated soy oil, and third and last on the list (meaning its amount is smallest), extra light olive oil. If a margarine label says "vegetable oil," it means soy oil. There are rare exceptions like Canoleo margarine made from liquid and partially hydrogenated canola (rapeseed) oil, but that difference will cost you more money.
Margarines compete with butter on price, and are usually much cheaper."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
| "Claudio X Gonzalez, also on the unilever board, was special advisor to the president of Mexico between 1988 and 1994, as well as being a member of the International Advisory Council of the JP Morgan Chase bank. Then there is Senator George J. Mitchell, who was a member of the US Senate from 1980 to 1995 and chairman of the Northern Ireland Peace Initiative from 1995 to 1999. Lord Simon of Highbury is European advisor to the Board of Morgan Stanley, and was a UK Government minister between 1997 and 1999, chairman of BP from 1995 to 1997. Jeroen van der Veer is president of Royal Dutch Petroleum." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "The supervisory board of Akzo Nobel has linking directorships with Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell, Corus Group (born of a merger in October 1999, between British Steel and Koninklijke Hoogovens), ABN AMRO (a Dutch bank), unilever (which is a partly Dutch company following the merger in 1930 between soap makers Lever Brothers and Margarine Unie), and Bayer. It also has on the board, Abraham E. Cohen, the president of Merck Sharp & Dohme International. Karel Vuursteen, who moved on to the Board in 2002, has been a member of the Trilateral Commission for a number of years. Cees JA." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) "In 1986, it took money from Roche, unilever and the Dunhill Medical Trust. In 1987/88, the massive US PR company, which, among others, represents pharmaceutical interests, donated almost ?2,000, while Wyeth and Ciba Geigy also donated independently. By 1994, Women's Health Concern was in a position to commit ?0,000 to the production and promotion of a book, Menopause and HRT - The Facts, which was distributed to all the libraries in Britain. By 1999, as well as its support from commercial concerns, it began to receive ?5,000 grants from the Department of Health." - Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "When asked to develop an all-natural cosmetic line for the cosmetic and personal-care company (now part of unilever), he did. "But the company added back tons of synthetics. I went to the owner and told him I wasn't happy. He gave me a check for thirty thousand dollars and told me to start my own natural cosmetic company, and then he fired me. It was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."
Today, Aubrey Organics is a carbon-neutral company that is producing organic cosmetics without toxic preservatives." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
| "Dove is owned by unilever, one of the largest consumer product companies in the world. unilever also owns the Finesse, Suave, Salon Selectives, and Thermasilk hair-care lines, which the Dove addition closely resembles. If anything, the Dove Hair Care line is simply capitalizing on a familiar, secure brand name and does little to diversify or improve your choice of hair-care products. For more information about Dove, call (800) 598-5005 or visit www.dove.com." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.) |
| "Francine Lamoriello, a vice president for global strategies at CTFA, told me that a good number of the association's membership comes from Europe and elsewhere, including L'Oreal from France, unilever from the Netherlands, and Shiseido from Japan; Brazilian, Korean, Dominican, Peruvian, and other international companies are also among its membership. "Companies have to decide," she said, "whether to formulate everywhere for the European market, or segregate the European market and formulate around it." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) |
 "Researchers from The Netherlands-based unilever, makers of Take Control?spread, reported that they have observed a 10% decrease in carotenoids in the bloodstream when processed food products containing plant sterols and/or stanols are consumed regularly with meals.48 This could indicate that these products might be inhibiting the absorption of carotenoids from fruits and vegetables. This decreased absorption has not been shown to occur when taking sterols and stanols directly as a supplement."- Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Cholesterol Protection for Life, New Expanded Edition (Get the book.) |
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