This bill would require manufacturers selling cosmetic products in California to provide the state Department of Health Services with a list of their products and to identify products that contain chemicals
identified as carcinogens or reproductive toxins.
Not exact matches
The very National Toxicology Program that CSPI cites actually undermines the group's reckless attack
as the NTP does not
identify 4 - MEI
as even «reasonably anticipated to be a human
carcinogen.»
12 Perhaps he should have chucked it out instead: In 2005 the Environmental Protection Agency
identified a Teflon ingredient, perfluorooctanoic acid,
as a «likely
carcinogen.»
Originated 1970s by Dr. Henry Lemon, who tested estrogen levels in 24 hour urine samples and found that an EQ > 1 strongly correlated with a higher survival rate after breast cancer.24 Further research conducted by Lemon, Heidel, et al., a meta - analysis of published fractional estrogen excretion collected from 2,846 healthy women worldwide aged 15 to 59 years, with a risk of breast cancer varying five-fold, found that an EQ < 1 reflects increased rates of oxidation of estrone or estradiol to 4 - OH catechols (also referred to in the literature
as the 3,4 - catechol estrogen quinones), which have been
identified as the principal proximal human mammary
carcinogens after menarche, while an EQ > 1 reflects conversion to protective 2 - OH estrogen metabolites.2526
The food industry's artificial «Red No. 2» accused of triggering hyperactivity in children and
identified as a human
carcinogen by scientists, is a synthetic knockoff of the original, amaranth derived «Hopi red dye.»
Marcelle's Bronzing Pressed Powder, a product labelled 100 per cent perfume - free and paraben - free, got a 9 because it contained diazolidinyl urea, a preservative the David Suzuki Foundation
identified on its Dirty Dozen List
as a
carcinogen and allergen.
Its website offers maternity wear from brands that «avoid ingredients
identified as reproductive toxins (phthalates, for example),
carcinogens, or teratogens (substances that cause or contribute to birth defects).»