Your Baby's Bath: Gentle! Pure! Formaldehyde?

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Your Baby's Bath: Gentle! Pure! Formaldehyde?

Our friends in the Wackosphere will remind us that formaldehyde is naturally

produced in the human body. So is poop, but we don't bath in it or inject it

into ourselves now do we?

Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Press Advisory

Contacts: Malkan, 202-321-6963; stacy@...

Jovana Ruzicic, 202-667-6982; jovana@...

ie Hendrix, 415-258-9151; stephdh@...

New Product Tests: Kids’ Bath Products Contaminated with Formaldehyde, 1,4

Dioxane. Chemicals Not Listed on Labels Due to Weak Regulatory Standards

Washington D.C., March 12, 2009 -- Despite marketing claims like “gentleâ€

and “pure,†dozens of popular children’s bath products are contaminated

with the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, according to new

product tests released today by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The chemicals

were not listed on product labels. 

This is the first report to document the widespread presence of formaldehyde and

1,4-dioxane in bath products for children. Many products tested for the study

contained both chemicals, including top-selling baby shampoos, bubble baths and

baby lotions.

At a press conference on Thursday, brand names will be revealed, and medical

professionals and researchers will discuss the significance of these first-time

findings. Health groups will discuss how lack of regulation in the United States

has created a situation where parents cannot be assured that body care products

are safe, despite marketing claims that promise product purity. They will also

discuss how product safety standards in the U.S. have fallen far behind other

countries such as Europe and Japan.

 

WHAT:  Press conference with full test results and products on display

 

WHEN:  Thursday March 12, 9:30 a.m.

 

WHERE:  National Press Club, Murrow Room, Washington DC

 

WHO:

Jane Houlihan, vice president for research at Environmental Working Group,

creator of the Skin Deep database (www.cosmeticdatabase.org)

Devra Lee , Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for

Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Robyn Gilden, RN, MS, Program Manager, University of land School of Nursing

Environmental Health Education Center

Malkan, co-founder, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, author of “Not Just a

Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industryâ€

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Founding members of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics include: Alliance for a

Healthy Tomorrow, Breast Cancer Fund, Clean Water Fund, Commonweal,

Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, Massachusetts Breast Cancer

Coalition, National Black Environmental Justice Network, National Environmental

Trust and Women's Voices for the Earth. www.SafeCosmetics.org

 

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