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[March 4, 2004] Dockets Management Branch The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department of Health and Human Services, Rm. 1-23 12420 Parklawn Dr. Rockville, MD 20857 (Sent via email fdadockets@oc.fda.gov) Re: 99P-1340 -- Petition to Have Eternity eau de parfum declared "Misbranded"
Dear FDA Staff: I got to thinkin' . . . Recipe for our "hidden" disabilities -- TAKE a goodly measure of fake lab tests, otherwise touted by the many facets of the chemical industry as 'SOUND SCIENCE' or 'SCIENCE-BASED EVIDENCE' (see story below). ADD a good dose of industry assurances of safety, e.g., "In a triumph for science-based evidence over scare tactics, an independent panel reviewing the safety of phthalates in cosmetics has concluded that these compounds can continue to be used safely in high-quality cosmetics and personal care products. ... [Phthalates] 'are safe for use in cosmetic products in present practices of use and concentration.' " http://www.phthalates.org/mediacenter/pep_2002_11_19.html ADD the fact that mainstream medical doctors are NOT adequately trained to recognize chemical poisonings from pesticides and/or fragrances -- National Strategies for Health Care Providers: Pesticides Initiative -- FACT SHEET http://www.neetf.org/Health/Initiative%20Factsheet0408.pdf
"Although environmental health risks are a leading cause of illness and death, the average health professional receives minimal environmental training. Even when environmental factors are identified as a source of a health problem, there is often little knowledge about how to address or prevent the problem. A study has shown that 75% of medical schools require only about seven hours of study in environmental medicine over four years (1994). (1)ÝÝ ..." 1. Schenk, M., S.M. Popp, A.V. Neale, and R.Y. Demers, 1996. „Environmental medicine content in medical school curricula.¾ Academic Medicine, Vol. 71, No. 5, May. ADD a heaping amount of "Never Measure, Never Manage" attitude STIR IN the damning and damaging ramifications of the chemical industry's Environmental Illness Briefing Paper of 1990 http://ehnca.org/www/books/cmaeibri.htm, along with the promulgations of doctors who are inadequately trained to diagnose chemical injuries; then BREW IT UP for the past couple-three decades by stultifying the already chemically injured and writing prescriptions for diagnoses not adequately trained to make . . . SERVE UP millions of people too soon chronically ill and/or disabled, and too many others too soon dead. There's your recipe for the answers to a lot of our "experts" one-word, non-explanation explanations,"UNEXPLAINED,' when they are queried about the escalating rates for our various environmental illnesses. -- barb wilkie www.ehnca.org
barb's views reflect only her opinion and do not necessarily reflect those of the Environmental Health Network or its boards. == Do you suffer asthma, sinusitis, migraines, leaky beaky? Have you discovered that no matter what you do to follow doctor's orders to clean away those dreaded dust mites, you still have asthma, et al.? Think about all of the modern fragrances that enter your life through personal care, as well as cleaning and maintenance products, AND "environmental enhancements." Fragrances are made with toxic chemical formulations by an unregulated industry. They are at best "irritants" and "sensitizers" capable of causing or triggering asthma, and at worse may cause central and autonomic nervous system disorders, cancers and birth defects. WHERE IS THE RESEARCH???? See EHN's FDA Petition requesting the FDA require warning labels - the regulations exist, the FDA doesn't enforce them! http://www.ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm Reference "Docket Number 99P-1340" and tell the FDA about illness you suffer because of fragrances. E-mail: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
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