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"Other than natural triggers like pollen and dust, pollutants that trigger asthma and allergies can be found in both indoor and outdoor environments—pesticides, tobacco, soot, car exhaust, engine fuel, cleaning supplies, and any man-made chemical used to manufacture consumer products or "protect" things such as furniture, upholstery, mattresses, and carpets. It's no surprise that we've seen a corresponding rise in allergies with a rise in environmental toxins. This can set off a double whammy?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Some researchers believe that such contamination of our food supply, or other consumer products, happens when large commercial networks operate without sufficiently tight oversight or when businesses are not knowledgeable about the consequences of making even minor alterations in manufacturing processes. One high-level researcher, who prefers to talk off the record, cautions that, without proper oversight and improved regulation, we may well see more such food- and additive-related clusters in the future, both in epidemic and sporadic form." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"His unrelenting efforts finally resulted in the banning of lead from gasoline, paint, and other consumer products and to stricter standards for airborne lead levels.33 Physicist George Zweig, who in 1964 was one of the first theorists to propose the reality of quarks—which have since been verified as the most fundamental of all subatomic particles?was denied a post at an American university because a prestigious faculty member claimed his work was that of a charlatan.34 The problems of "doing science" persist even today, and perhaps the difficulties are worse than ever." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"A major component of indoor air pollution, styrene is found in many consumer products, especially those associated with home renovation: plastics, rubbers, resins, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, containers, wainscoting, and carpet backing. If you're thinking about remodeling your home, ask about the styrene content of the building materials you're considering using. A number of the most common—caulking compounds and sealants, vinyl flooring, and various paint-related products?might be worth avoiding." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "This chlorine byproduct is used as a raw material in the manufacture of a huge number of consumer products: plastic water bottles, vinyl flooring, shower curtains, as well as pacifiers and children's toys. Young children, who are apt to suck or chew on their toys, are particularly susceptible to PVC exposure. Many European countries have already banned the use of PVCs in baby toys, but this battle hasn't yet been won in the United States. The good news is, with just a little effort, you can make sure that your children's toys are free of these potentially harmful chemicals." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "This bill proposes to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to reduce the exposure of kids, workers, and consumers to toxic chemicals and to require more stringent and effective testing for chemicals used in consumer products. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey is sponsoring this bill, which requires all chemicals used in the home to be evaluated for their safety on children. It also mandates that companies list any ingredients in their products that are mutagens, teratogens, endocrine or hormone disrupters, neurotoxins, or carcinogens." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Today heavy metals are extensively used as components of countless consumer products, though the consumer is generally unaware of their presence in the seemingly harmless product. They are widely used in all forms of industry, agriculture, food processing, cosmetics, personal care products, household products, and so on. Most of us are familiar with what happens when we want a newer, faster computer or digital device that's been outdated by new technology. We have to discard the old hardware, which becomes electronic waste—and a main source of lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "What these recalls do is diminish our confidence in consumer products and the people who are supposed to protect us from injurious goods ever reaching our local stores. Congress is now investigating the recalls, but again, this only goes to show another example of treating a problem rather than preventing it. It's stepping in after the fact. How much irreversible harm has already been done? The Mattel cases caught many unsuspecting parents off guard. Amid the toy recalls came another report that said some garden hoses may contain dangerous levels of lead." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Nutritionism solves the problem of the fixed stomach, as it used to be called in the business: the fact that compared to other consumer products, demand for food has in the past been fairly inelastic. People could eat only so much, and because tradition and habit ruled their choices, they tended to eat the same old things. Not anymore! Not only does nutritionism favor ever more novel kinds of highly processed foods (which are by far the most profitable kind to make), it actually enlists the medical establishment and the government in the promotion of those products." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Perhaps the most famous example of a VOC, formaldehyde, has been banned in urea foam insulation, but formaldehyde is still used in many other consumer products, including paint-related products, household cleaners, vinyl flooring, adhesives, sealants, wall coverings, particleboard, and other renovation materials. Greener Building Materials Every month, it seems, another environmentally friendly alternative to traditional building materials comes onto the market. Do a little research to discover the ever-increasing pool of options now available to you. Paint." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER 10 DETOXIFICATION AND YOUR HEALTH It's no surprise that detoxification has become a prominent treatment as people have become more aware of pollution, both in the general environment and from things like consumer products and common householdcleaning agents. It is estimated that one in every four Americans suffers from some level of heavy metal poisoning. Heavy metals, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic, are by-products of industry. Synthetic agriculture chemicals, many of which are known to cause health problems, are also found in food, air, and water." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"While many of the techniques drug companies use to market their wares are no different from those used to sell other consumer products, drugs are not like cars or iPods. They alter the body in profound ways, and they all have side effects, some worse than others. In redefining diseases, marketers have done more than sell product; they have blurred the definitions of wellness and health. They have changed the way consumers think about themselves and transformed huge numbers of formerly healthy people into patients who view themselves as sick." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"And by the end of 2007, at least 300 sunscreen and sunblock products contained nanoparticles of titanium dioxide or zinc oxide, making this the most common use for nanotechnology among all consumer products. An Australian government health agency estimated that about 70 percent of sunblocks that include titanium dioxide and 30 percent of sunscreens that include zinc oxide contain these materials in nanoparticle form. Once titanium dioxide or zinc oxide is reduced in size, the chemical becomes transparent, losing its usual white coloration when applied to the skin." - 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.) "Rather than wait for ingredients in consumer products to cause harm to public health, as remains the tradition in the U.S., many European policymakers in the early 1990s began pushing for the establishment of a legal "precautionary principle" based on the idea that harm to consumer health should not need to established with "full scientific certainty" before corrective action is taken. Manufacturers would have to prove their product ingredients were safe to use before marketing them to consumers. Under this precautionary principle, the European Union countries in 2000 banned two phthalates ?" - 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.) "Congress passed the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, requiring that all consumer products be honestly labeled. • In 1972, possibly harmful levels of lead were found in three major brands of toothpaste. The FDA took no action because it received assurances from manufacturers that the leaded tubes believed to be the source of the contamination would be phased out of use. • In 1977, the FDA banned the use of six carcinogenic color additives from cosmetics: Yellow #1, Blue #6, and Reds #10,11,12, and 13, which were used in lipsticks." - 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.) "National Institutes of Health's Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and that jump in the incidence of asthma coincides with the immense surge of fragrances being added to consumer products in the 1970s and '80s. (7) Allergens are not, however, the only, or even the most serious, danger of perfumes and fragrances. In 2007, Consumer Reports financed lab testing of eight perfumes selected at random found hormone-disruptive phthalates DBP and DEHP in every one of them. And in a 1986 report to a committee of the U.S." - 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.)

"In other words, the pharmaceutical corporations feel they are the only ones who need to know how pure their consumer products are. A logical consideration, based on facts presented in the GeneWatch article, would be that incomplete processing, broken rDNA strands, mutant insulin creations, and other impurities in the rDNA process would be more difficult to separate from media-cultural broth than would foreign contaminants from animal pancreatic extracts because all insulin molecules have been formed properly. In U.S." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"The Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, consumer products and the Environment's Non-Technical Summary concludes, "The new research estimates that a woman drinking an average of two units (drinks) of alcohol per day has a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer 8 percent higher than a woman who drinks an average of one unit of alcohol per day. The risk of breast cancer further increases with each additional drink consumed per day." Both the National Cancer Institute and Dr." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Most people in the developed world now believe that choice -in food as in all other consumer products - is a fundamental right. (In fact, for most of human history, choice hardly existed - most people ate, drank and wore what they could get, if they were lucky enough to get it.) As a result, many parents feel guilty when they deny their children the choice of their favourite junk meal. But, as celebrity chef Jamie Oliver put it when asked why he thought children shouldn't have any choice over their school meal, 'You wouldn't ask them what they wanted to read in an English class." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "Children's TV shows come complete with the same range of consumer products. The toys that marketeers encourage children to covet are no longer levers to their own creativity, but bridges from one type of passive, sedentary entertainment to another. Marketing guru Martin Lindstrom points out that this trend has always been fiercest in Japan, where technology took hold of the public imagination particularly early - and with minimal government interference - so that electronic games and toys have been fully integrated with movie and TV merchandising since the 1970s." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Medical Hypotheses 20: 117-24, 1986] Cancer Promoter Other 1% consumer products 3% Nuclear Medicine 4% HA is a molecule comprised of glucuronic acid and glucosamine that gels water. It is a water-holding molecule that is produced by fibroblast cells. Water is the great detoxifier and diluter of the body. When young, humans produce large amounts of hyaluronic acid. Cancer occurs in the latter years of life, when HA levels in the body are low. The research of Dr." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Lead has been phased out of gasoline and consumer products, but there are still quantities of lead in the environment as lead paint and lead piping, and lead-contaminated dust and soil from years of lead emission is still a problem. Luckily, the number of children with elevated blood levels of lead has dropped significantly—from almost 4 million in 1978 to around 430,000 by the mid-1990s. More information on lead can be obtained from the National Lead Information Center (NLIC) at http://www .epa.gov/lead/nlic.htm." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The greedy pharmaceuticals would have us believe that we cause our own problems and their consumer products are never at fault. Increase the Price! Here is a parallel example of this deluded corporate mindset, whereby patients of another chronic disease are manipulated for profit. In a news release dated 2004, the AIDS Foundation filed an antitrust and restraint of trade lawsuit against the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories. Novir, the "old" AIDS drug, underwent a five-fold increase (from $50/month to $250/ month)." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"New Hampshire-based manufacturer of natural and organic yogurts and ice cream, enjoys a strategic partnership with Groupe Danone (Danone), the France-based consumer products company known for its sales of bottled water, dairy products, and biscuits. Stonyfield is the largest organic yogurt producer in the world and the third largest yogurt brand in America. Over the last decade, Stonyfield has enjoyed the fastest compounded annual growth rate (24.3 percent) of any U.S. yogurt brand." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Based on our experience with bGH, quite apart from a wide range of other consumer products, drugs and industrial chemicals, it is clear, that the EEC and each individual nation worldwide must fully and independently evaluate the detailed and raw industry data before accepting possibly misleading and self-serving assurances of safety." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "He has contributed numerous editorials and letters to leading national newspapers, and has published over 100 press releases, over the last decade, on the politics of cancer, and on avoidable causes of cancer, particularly in consumer products. Dr." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Excerpts from the Dairy Coalition BST Infoline Dairy Coalition Response to the Cancer Prevention Coalition Press Conference on the "Dirty Dozen" consumer products September 21,1995 Following are statements from Richard Weiss, Director of the Dairy Coalition, and E. Linwood Tipton, President and CEO of the International Dairy Foods Association, in response to claims made by the Cancer Prevention Coalition. "This is just another irresponsible attempt to scare consumers with unfounded claims about safe products." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Overall our strategy was to downplay milk's presence on the list of "Dirty Dozen" consumer products. We were careful not to overreact or draw the news media spotlight to milk. Given the Cancer Prevention Coalition's prior activity on rbST/milk safety issues. However, we were well prepared with science experts, message points and response statements in case these were needed. Our strategy was successful." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"VOCs are released into the air from automobile exhaust and consumer products. While automobiles may seem to be a far greater source than a little can of hairspray, in California alone, the annual emissions of 176 million pounds of VOCs from 30 million Californians using consumer products are the same as if 20 million cars were added, each driving an additional 10,000 miles that year" (Source: Air Quality Resources, www.aqs.com/iaq/vol_org_compounds.asp)." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

"Food companies like Kraft, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola maximize profit by taking raw materials such as wheat, potatoes, salt, and sugar, pulverizing them and combining them with a chemical soup of additives; at the other end of the factory, out comes a wide array of "consumer products." So why can't companies just make money selling "healthier products"? Because companies make more money selling unhealthy food. Truly healthy food doesn't come in a box. As I will discuss, we cannot expect food companies to "make healthier products." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

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