Calls to Ban Triclosan Surge

[Omaha Steve]

From email. I'm giving up on total toothpaste!


Triclosan, a hormone-disrupting ingredient found in many household products including toothpaste, soap and cosmetics has been in the press recently. Colgate has been authorized by the FDA to use this pesticide for years in consumer products.

This year, the industry-funded tests that denoted triclosan as “safe” were released to the public. The results of these company-backed studies raise major questions about the safety of this additive. Among this and other independent studies, triclosan was linked to malformations in mice bones, antibiotic resistance, learning disabilities and increased chance of infertility.

Advocacy groups across the United States, including Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families are calling for consumers to “Mind the Store” and ask retailers to eliminate this and other harmful chemicals from their products. Be sure to protect yourself from triclosan by checking the label on products for ingredient lists and avoiding “anti-microbial” or “anti-bacterial” products.

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[WhiteTara]

1. Thanks for that info.

What is wrong with these people?

[BrotherIvan]

2. Have stopped purchasing any anti-bacterial products for a long while

I also exclude all flouride toothpaste. It's hard to keep up with all the things deemed "safe" but are anything but. Guess I'm a Luddite.