Carcinogenic chemical benzene found in hundreds of US personal care products

[Charlemagne]

Carcinogenic chemical benzene found in hundreds of US personal care products

Independent lab found the chemical in more than a quarter of items it tested – sometimes at levels considered ‘life threatening’

www.theguardian.com

 

[danmand]

Carcinogenic chemical benzene found in hundreds of US personal care products

Independent lab found the chemical in more than a quarter of items it tested – sometimes at levels considered ‘life threatening’

www.theguardian.com

That is only the small of it. Benzoic acid is found in many preserved food items. Always look carefully at the label.

 

[Mr Deeds]

Not really a revelation.There's all sorts of toxic shit in just about everything we consume they call it acceptable levels. Give it a couple of generations and they'll be immune.

 

[richaceg]

Shampoos and conditioners have benzene...almost all household chemicals have carcinogens in them...preservatives from meat products have carcinogens...heck fertilizers used to grow veggies have them...I don't think even Wholefoods can say their produce are carcinogen free...enjoy your life...

 

[GameBoy27]

I miss the good old days when we had lead paints, leaded gasoline and asbestos to name a few...

 

[Ponderling]

Shit, Victorian era make up often had gobs of lead in it.

Tons of hues the Renaissance Masters used in their painting are metal oxides or salts and are toxic as hell.

Lots of old wall paper had metal salts used to make the colours.

Then there is clothing dyes. Look up the Superfund site in Buffalo that finished its long use of the site as 'Buffalo Color' making mostly indigo dyes for demin jeans.

 

[Indiana]

Cool. Sign me up for the class-action.

 

[lomotil]

I remember getting wiffs of benzene in organic chemistry labs, smelled sweet, even dirty sweet this six carbon pi bonded aromatic molecule. I knew a lady a while backed who when ovulating had the ever so slight aroma of benzene.from her secretions.

 

[poker]

Global supply chain…. And there in lies the problem. Suppose one country supplies the planet with cheap stuff…. And decides a great way to get a competitive edge is to taint the products they send us intentionally.


Nah, on second thought, as if one country could taint products with benzine and lead, and ship mountains and mountains of highly addictive and life destroying narcotics to our country.

 

[downbound123]

I inherited a 1950's Tudor Bristol watch from my father. It had glow in the dark numbers, hour, minute and second sweep hands. They don't glow anymore as the finish has worn off. I discovered that they were painted with radium to make them glow.
Because of the era when they were made the radium was applied by hand in the factory and the workers used a very fine brush to do the work. They used to wet the brush using the tips of their tongues. The majority of them all developed cancer of the tongue or mouth. They switched to tritium in the 1960's when the manufacturer Tudor (a division of Rolex) became aware as did the rest of the world of the dangers of radium.

 

[Ponderling]

Down side of the radium girls issue was the management were fully aware of the risks that raduim presented.

Guys who mixed the paint up the painters used made use of gloved, lead shielding, fume hoods and industrial showers.