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"The european union, through new legislation (called REACH) designed to limit toxins in commercially produced goods, caused China to change its manufacturing practices. The european union also demanded that Silicon Valley produce cells phones without toxic metals and they did. Buying organic food, refusing vaccines with mercury, and buying deodorant without aluminum will create a ripple effect throughout our economy and environment. You can make changes in your life and in your world with the choices you make. What's more, you can make changes in your personal health." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Everyday choices we make to protect ourselves will have an impact globally. The european union, through new legislation (called REACH) designed to limit toxins in commercially produced goods, caused China to change its manufacturing practices. The european union also demanded that Silicon Valley produce cells phones without toxic metals and they did. Buying organic food, refusing vaccines with mercury, and buying deodorant without aluminum will create a ripple effect throughout our economy and environment. You can make changes in your life and in your world with the choices you make." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The european union voted in 2003 to continue its ban on DTC drug ads. In the debate, consumer groups argued that medical information should be disseminated by independent national sources, not drug companies. A spokesperson for the european union went even further, saying that the ban on drug company ads was not sufficient to protect its citizens from commercially sponsored misinformation coming from the United States. "The problem is you now have all sorts of medical data and claims on American websites," he said, "and that issue is still not being addressed." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Prebiotics are the perfect, supportive partner for probiotics. The european union is sponsoring a project called SYNCAN that is looking into possible cancer-protective effects of synbiotics. The project was sparked by animal models that have shown that synbiotics dramatically reduce the development of cancer. The research says that synbiotics are more powerful than their prebiotic or probiotic components alone. Results from the SYNCAN project are promising." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Canada is the leading producer and exporter of flax, followed by China, the United States, India, the european union, and Argentina. States with the greatest flax production in the U.S. include North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Why Should I Eat Flax? Flaxseeds are a rich source of omega-3 fats. They are an excellent source of soluble and insoluble fiber, beneficial for regulating cholesterol, blood glucose, and digestion. Flax is a superb source of lignans, plant compounds that act like a weak form of estrogen." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Fifty years larer, after rhe original community, popularly known as the Common Market, had grown into a twenty-five-member european union, with a common currency, passport-free borders, and a rudimentary transnational legislature, a constitution was drafted by men and women who were already starting to think of themselves as citizens of such a united European state. These men and women were less quotable than Clemenceau in their attitude toward national independence, but no less dismissive." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Although the european union is moving toward requiring companies to register thousands of chemicals with a new regulatory agency that places the burden on industry to prove that chemicals are safe, rather than on scientists to prove that they are unsafe, that is quite the opposite of the way we do business in the United States." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A spokesperson for the european union went even further, saying that the ban on drug company ads was not sufficient to protect its citizens from commercially sponsored misinformation coming from the United States. "The problem is you now have all sorts of medical data and claims on American websites," he said, "and that issue is still not being addressed." In the United States the rights of commercial speech are given far greater priority than in the other countries—a balance that is tipping ever more in favor of commercial activity." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"It is the basis for the functioning of the transnational organizations of which the european union (EU) is a prime example. In today's Macroshift the suprasystem-building process leads from national to regional level systems, and ultimately to a system on the global level. The process is evident, and it is accelerating." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Most countries (Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and all twenty-five nations of the european union) have banned rBGH because of its known detrimental effect on health. Even if you are buying organic milk and only eating organic dairy products, there is this to consider: milk comes from cows and was created by Mother Nature for baby cows. By drinking their mothers' milk and processing it with their four stomachs, calves double their body weight in only forty-seven days and usually live very short lives. It's no wonder that our bodies treat milk like an alien substance." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"The company's ongoing political reach was displayed in the trade dispute that erupted between the United States and the european union in 1999. When the EU imposed a quota system limiting the amount of bananas imported by Chiquita, the American government intervened on their behalf This might have had something to do with the fact that Chiquita CEO Carl Lindner had become, at the height of the restrictions on his bananas, one of the biggest political donors in America, bestowing more than 5 million dollars. Senate majority leader Bob Dole was given unlimited use of Lindner's private jet." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Other big suppliers are India, Mexico, the european union, and the United States. Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, California, and Texas are, in that order, the United States' leading producers. Why Should I Eat Eggs? The quality of egg protein is the highest of any whole food product, second only to human breast milk. Eggs are also a good source of the amino acid tryptophan, selenium, vitamin B2, and vitamin B12, and are one of the rare sources of natural vitamin D. Eggs are a good source of choline, which is important for brain function, gene regulation, and heart health." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The european union has been moving aggressively to remove phthalates from nail polish. Phthalates are often used in nail polish so that it doesn't chip as readily. In the United States, where regulators wait for proof before taking action, a few major cosmetic makers are electing to eliminate phthalates from nail polish since they have had to reformulate their products for the overseas market." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"These companies have also removed the other ingredients from their nail polishes necessary to meet european union regulatory guidelines. In 2006 two more major nail polish companies, Orly International and OPI of Los Angeles (the nation's largest manufacturer of nail polishes and nail treatment products), phased out DBP. (19) Additionally, Sally Hansen, a branch of the giant Del Laboratories and the leading drug store brand, agreed to phase out the use of formaldehyde, toluene, and dibutyl phthalate." - 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.) "Evidence on the carcinogenicity of hair dye ingredients has been well recognized since 1979 (4), but remains trivialized or ignored by the manufacturers of these products. The european union banned twenty-two hair dye ingredients in 2006 because of the evidence of bladder cancer risk, and also because the industry had failed to submit safety files on 115 other ingredients in currently used products. While we're on the subject of hair, there is one more danger to be aware of: thioglycolic acid hair straighteners." - 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.)

"Since that time the european union has placed a limit on the amount of vitamins and minerals that can be added to food. And it isn't only in Europe. Feskanitch and colleagues followed 72,337 nurses from 1980 to 1998 and showed that women in the top 20% of vitamin A intake (through diet and vitamin supplements such as multivitamins) had a 48% increase in hip fracture compared with women in the bottom 20% of vitamin A intake.2 I don't want to leave you with the impression that vitamins and supplements are always dangerous, because they are not." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Warning labels for twenty-six of them are already required by the european union. This may also provide a clue as to why one in ten people in the U.S. suffer from bouts of asthma, compared to only one in twenty of the world's population. The U.S. has long been the world's leading innovator in adding fragrances to products, especially cosmetics and personal care products. Also, "The prevalence of asthma (in 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.) "Whiteners usually contain two active ingredients, the potent natural hormone cortisone, and the frank carcinogen hydroquinone (an ingredient banned in european union countries). This combination inhibits the natural production of melanin, the compound responsible for dark pigmentation of the skin, but can lead to the development of skin cancer following prolonged use. [END BOX] What Is Really in Your Lipstick?" - 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.)

"The FDA gave its approval for the sale of Monsanto's BST product back in 1993, but in Canada and the european union, BST remains unapproved because of strong circumstantial evidence that it may promote cancer in cows and humans. Understand, this change in one amino acid is not insignificant. The replacement of one amino acid can change the configuration of a protein significantly; and configuration determines the properties and effects of a protein." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The Europeans are taking this seriously, and in 2005, a directive passed by the european union mandated that chemicals determined to be carcinogens, mutagens, or reproductive toxins be removed from cosmetics sold in Europe.1 According to the Environmental Working Group, the average American is exposed to more than a hundred different chemicals from personal care products every day.2 And although the cosmetic industry asserts that its products are safe, 89 percent of the ingredients used in cosmetics today have not been assessed by either the FDA or the industry itself." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"In fact, Zelnorm had shown so little benefit and had so many side effects that by 2006 the european union had twice turned down the request of Novartis, a Swiss company, to sell the drug there. "He is Dr. Zelnorm," Dr. Abramson said of Professor Rao. Many months after I spoke to Dr. Abramson, the FDA demanded in July 2007 that Novartis sharply limit the use of Zelnorm to women who met strict requirements. The agency said that patients taking the drug had a small but increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Some hthalates and parabens Banned by the european union in 2003, phthalates and group of chemicals commonly used as preservatives in co >m< tory tests found phthalates in more than 70 percent of beauty products tested—including the most popular brands skin care products and every single fragrance tested. Both onstrated to be carcinogenic and particularly linked to brejast cancer. parabens are a . Labora-the health and of hair and have been dem- 5." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Germany's Blue Angel environmental label was in fact the first of its kind, established in 1978. The european union later created the Euroflower eco-label, which offers retailers and manufacturers voluntary certification to distinguish their commitment to sustainability through corporate transparency and attention to integrated life-cycle approaches to production. KillAWatt/Wattson mm How much power do we use at home? Our monthly electric bill gives us the total, but how can we figure out which of our various toys and appliances needs to be replaced with something greener?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Outside the european union, which recently mandated new restrictions on hazardous substances, most governments are doing very little, and moving very slowly to do it. This makes the flip side of legislation, the certification scheme, so interesting: it is the carrot to legislation's stick. At the moment, product vigilance is an anarchic sort of realm inhabited by numerous competing agencies awarding certifications and labels for meeting certain standards relating to off-gassing, recycled content, and toxins—and each certification comes with its own regional rules and boards and bureaucracies." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Turkey has been striving to gain membership in the european union since 1987—one reason its government accepted the UNICEF program. The Copenhagen criteria for membership, which a country must accept if it wants to join the EU, call for each national government to guarantee full human rights plus respect for and protection of minorities. Since the cohorts of today's primary-school-aged girls will be entering the job market at the same time the country is expected to become an EU member, educating girls is in Turkey's best interests in more ways than one." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"One ingredient, petroleum distillates in my Cover Girl Marathon Waterproof Mascara, is banned in the european union. • 17 applications of penetration enhancers, which can draw the other chemicals more deeply into my body. • 15 doses of chemicals that persist in the body or accumulate up the food chain. • 15 products with fragrance — an unspecified mix of chemicals likely to contain phthalates and allergens. • Less than half the ingredients in my products have been assessed for safety. My head is spinning. I feel like Alice who fell down the rabbit hole." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "But in Europe, that was just about to change. The european union (EU) was getting ready to pass a new amendment to the Cosmetics Directive, the law that regulates cosmetics in all EU countries (15 countries at the time). The new amendment would ban animal testing of cosmetics, which was getting a lot of press attention, but it would also do something else that had slipped under the media radar: it would ban chemicals that were known or highly suspected of causing cancer, birth defects or genetic mutation from use in cosmetics." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "The attached statement from the CTFA said the European Union's new Cosmetics Directive (which banned 1,100 ingredients from cosmetics) "represents an unnecessary change in the philosophy of regulations of cosmetic ingredients in the EU. First of all, it may remove valuable ingredients from use in the EU. In addition, it ignores exposure information that would be used to assess whether there could be any harm from the use of such ingredients." The statement explained that in the US the cosmetics industry and FDA work together to ensure the safety of products. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "The "issues affecting cosmetics" were of a regulatory nature, and the new european union Cosmetics Directive was causing quite a buzz in a room. Susan sat in the back and tried to look inconspicuous. When CTFA president Ed Kavanaugh asked how many companies would be affected by the new European regulations, three quarters of the people raised their hands. "We are the most unregulated industry under the auspices of the FDA and this makes us vulnerable," Kavanaugh said.21 It was clear that the role of CTFA was to keep it that way." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"The Serbians ignored appeals from the european union and the UN to stop the killing and violence. Only when the United States began a high-altitude bombing campaign, were the Serbs eventually deterred. A volunteer team of Energy Psychology practitioners went to Kosovo in an attempt to help survivors deal with the severe emotional wounds left by the attacks. Their experiences were reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychology.1^ They treated 105 people, most with Thought Field Therapy, or TFT." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

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