Hey, You Know Those Fragrances Stores Use to Lure You Inside?

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5. Thanks for yr article. Marin County Calif's Environmental Health Network

Petitioned the FDA to place warning labels on Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume.

One member of the Network, Barb Wilkie, undertook a complete study of the ingredients in just that one perfume. The reuslt was a book that was over 170 pages long, and detailed the health impacts of over fifty separate chemicals.

Among the many items in the perfume is this one: 3,7 Dimethyl-trans-2,6-octadien-1-yl-acetate, about which the MSDS stated, "The toxilogical properties of this chemical have not been investigated." Part of the same MSDS also proclaims that an individual should "avoid contact with skin or eyes."

There are fewer than 500 hundred chemicals that have been investigated with enough thoroughness in enough research studies that any human would have general knowledge of what the chemical compound was, whether the chemical in question was benign or toxic, and if toxic, what its effects would be.

Most chemicals fall into the same category as the chemical named above. And then that person would know even less with regards if Chemical A can and should be used in conjunction with Chemical B. Yet if one perfume contains over 50 significant chemcials, a thinking person realizes how we really are in the dark as to what these things are doing to us.

And with corporations claiming a greater hold over "modern day science" every moment of every week, we cynics know that two research studies now proudly proclaim that "mercury is good for the developing brains of babies." (A proclamation that real scientific investigators from back in the 1930's would certainly have a problem with, if htey were still around to take up the cause.)