Clorox Cleanup?

Wow! Clorox has surprisingly released the lengthy list of fragrance ingredients that they use in their products. You've got to check out the list of Clorox's 1,219 fragrance ingredients here. Hmmm.....what's the catch? Clorox didn't bother to mention which fragrance ingredients are in which products. Well, I guess the good part for me is that I don't use any Clorox products!

Enviroblog's What's Inside: Clorox Shares A Little summaries the recent development:

The company no longer mentions polycyclic musks on the list of chemicals it never uses because the company - unfortunately - reneged on its promise to phase them out. Its just-released list of fragrance ingredients includes two of them, Galaxolide and Tonalide. Both have been linked to hormone disruption and breaking down cellular defenses against other toxic exposures. Research has also shown that these chemicals accumulate in people's bodies and turn up in blood and breast milk.
A third musk compound with potential for hormone disruption and cell damage is also on Clorox's list of approved fragrance ingredients: musk ketone. High blood levels of musk ketone in women may be associated with gynecological abnormalities, including mild insufficiency of the ovaries and compromised fertility.
The Clorox fragrance list includes a few other troubling ingredients:

• Acetaldehyde - a possible human carcinogen, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Oxybenzone - a hormone-disrupting chemical commonly used in sunscreens that has been detected in the bodies of 97 percent of Americans and is linked to low birth weight in baby girls
• Phenol and Benzyl Alcohol - both neurotoxins
• Triethanolamine - a chemical that can cause asthma to develop in otherwise healthy individuals.

When will enough be enough?

Green washing at its best.

Dear President Obama: Stop the American Cancer Epidemic

CALL TO ACTION!

From the blog Crazy Sexy Life is a short update about the President's Cancer Panel urging Obama to recognize the significance that "nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or understudied and largely unregulated."

Sign the petition here to President Obama.

 Article Highlights:

Right now, it’s perfectly legal for body-care products and other household goods sold in the U.S. to contain chemicals known to cause cancer and other diseases, with no warnings to consumers. This has been the story since the advent of synthetic chemistry in the mid 20^th century. Since that time, American industries have released billions of tons of unregulated synthetic substances into the environment  – chemicals that are now all over our homes and inside our bodies.

Since that time, we’ve seen the dramatic increase of unexplained cancers – to the point that 1 in 2 American men and 1 in 3 women are now expected to get some type of cancer in their lifetimes.

The panel urged President Obama “most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our Nation’s productivity, and devastate American lives.”

“The American people—even before they are born—are bombarded continually with a myriad of combinations of these dangerous exposures,” warned the cancer panel.