Sludge Watch ==> EWG Campaign - FDA should regulate chemicals in Personal Care Products

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

The Environmental Working Group is hosting the SKIN DEEP campaign.  They 
have a website where you can find out how toxic your personal care products 
are...from Nivea to Nexxus...the creams, lotions, potions, shampoos, and 
hair goo goes onto you...and then it all goes down the drain.

Look up what is in the products in YOUR bathroom...and think what it does 
once it gets in the sewer, the effluent, the sludge.  We should not allow 
the cosmetic industry to poison us with toxic product or to contaminate the 
environment with chemicals that have a long or unknown environmental fate.

Go to: http://www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/

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Here is the EWG Skin Deep petition:




Did you know that the government does not ensure the safety of personal care 
products before they are sold? The reality is that the U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration (FDA) has no authority to require that ingredients be 
assessed for safety, nor can they require a warning label when a product 
uses untested ingredients.

What's more is that the FDA has not defined what safe means or how to 
achieve it. And companies, who make so-called "safety findings" independent 
of the FDA, do not have to disclose the basis for their conclusions. In 
fact, the only thing that companies must do is list ingredients on their 
product labels.

Together we can make our products safer and force companies and the FDA to 
change their ways.

Take action now and sign the petition support 1) implementing regulations 
that require industry to publicly assess ingredients for safety before they 
are used in consumer products, and 2) requiring the government to define 
explicitly what "safe" means.

Sign the petition now:
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ewgroup/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=385"