AB 815 & AB 816 Equal Protection for Workers

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Author: R. Haney (---.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net)

Date: 08-05-05 06:55

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ALL:

A CALL FOR ACTION- YOUR HELP IS NEEDED IN SACRAMENTO ON AUGUST 15,

2005 TO LOBBY FOR AB 815 AND AB 816. TO ASSIST IN THIS VITALLY

IMPORTANT EVENT GO TO THE FOLLOWING SITE:

WORK SAFE: A California Coalition for Worker Occupational Health

Safety & Health Protection

AT:

http://www.worksafe.org/legislation/ca_legislation_worksafetracking.c

fm#ab815

THE EVENT:

Worker Health & Safety - Lobby Day on August 15, 2005 (Monday)

Visit the website mentioned and sign up by \ " clicking\ " onto the

\ " Sign-Up Form\ " and obtain much more information. Your help is

really needed, and you will be \ " completely prepared to lobby\ " . We

hope to have a press conference as well, and maybe we\'ll have time

for a little tour of the capitol! The California Bills being focused

on are: AB 815, AB 816, and SB 484.

An unnamed source in the State Capitol has indicated that Governor

Arnold Schwarzenegger ®, is PLANNING TO VETO this legislation, if

passed! AS A VICTIM OF INDOOR MOLD EXPOSURES HAVEN\'T YOU FINALLY

HAD ENOUGH OF IT!!! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO REALLY MAKE \ " BIG

BUSINESS\ " SIT UP AND PAY ATTENTION.... SIGN UP AND HELP, TODAY!!!!

HOW WE GOT WIND OF THIS AND WHAT BILL 815 MEANS TO YOU:

Thanks to a very alert Sandi Trend of Citrus Heights, CA, and the

case she is assisting me on regarding toxic chemicals in the work

environment, this extremely important bill authored by California

Assemblyperson Sally Lieber (D- District 22), and Co-authored by

State Assembly members Wilma Chan (D- District, 16), Mervyn M.

Dymally (D- District 52), and Fran Pavley (D- District 41) known as

AB 815 (and companion 816), that provides for \ " EQUAL PROTECTION FOR

WORKERS EXPOSED TO TOXINS\ " , was discovered. It has been floating

around silently for awhile up at the capitol.

One of the current laws that this will help to better regulate in

the work environment is the chemicals listed under the State of

California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of

environmental Health Hazard Assessment \ " Safe Drinking Water and

Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986\ " or in other words, the \ " Prop-65\ "

list of \ " Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or

Reproductive Toxicity.\ "

Believe it or not the Toxic Enforcement Act listing of chemicals as

noted above HAS OVER \ " 9\ " DIFFERENT \ " CANCER CAUSING\ " ,

\ " CYTOTOXIC,\ " AND \ " BIRTH DEFECT CAUSING\ " MYCOTOXINS LISTED.\ " Do

you want to take a chance on this important legislation not being

signed by the Governor?

IRONICALLY--- One critically important \ " mycotoxin\ " called \ " OXALIC

ACID\ " that is produced by several mold species in large amounts for

its solvant and bleaching properties, esp., by ASPERGULLIS NIGER,

and is on the OSHA\'s \ " Medically Important Chemicals\ " listing, is

NOT EVEN LISTED as a health hazard chemical in California\'s known

Carcinogens and Birth Defect causing list. WHY? California chemical

factories produce and use many chemical products using \ " oxalic

acid.\ "

READ ABOUT OXALIC ACID AND BREAST CANCER FROM A WORLD-NOTED

AUTHORITY:

A.V. COSTANTINI, M.D.

Head (retired),

World Health Organization (WHO)

Collaborating Center For Mycotoxins In Food

Division of Clinical Chemistry

Department of Internal Medicine

School of Medicine

Albert Ludwigs University

Freiburg, Germany

Clinical Professorial Faculty (retired),

University of California

School of Medicine

San Francisco, California USA

OXALIC ACID (A Mycotoxin)

Found In Breast Cancer Lesions

(Ref: http://members.aol.com/jfoverlag/fungalbionics/fgmyc-bc.htm )

Going et al. (1990) found that weddellite (calcium oxalate) crystals

are present in calcifications found in the breast tissue of patients

with breast cancer. Calcium oxalate crystals are formed when calcium

binds with oxalic acid. In human and animal systems, this is a

protective process which considerably reduces the severe toxicity of

oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is a powerful corrosive agent and oxalate

salts are widely used for their cleaning and bleaching properties!

Oxalic acid happens to be a mycotoxin which can be produced by a

number of different fungal species. Some fungi produce such large

amounts of oxalic acid that they are used for commercial production

of the chemical.

Aspergillus niger fungal infection in human lungs produces large

amounts of oxalic acid which is extremely toxic to the blood vessels

and which may cause fatal pulmonary hemorrhages. Consequently,

oxalic acid (calcium oxalate crystals) in the sputum or lung

specimens of patients is also an indication of an Aspergillus

infection of the lung. These calcium oxalate crystals are the same

as the calcium oxalate found in breast cancers.

The presence of oxalates in the breast is indicative of the presence

of fungi interwoven within the stages of breast cancer development.

Since humans do not make oxalic acid themselves, this is an

appropriate conclusion.

Breast Oxalate Calcifications

In Mammographic Examinations

et al. (1993) examined calcifications found in breast

mammograms and evaluated their relationship to the risk of

subsequent breast cancer. The presence, morphology, and distribution

of calcifications visualized on baseline mammograms of 686 women who

developed breast cancer over a 7- to 10-year follow-up period were

compared with those of 1,357 controls who remained cancer free. It

was found that there was a significant correlation between such

calcifications and subsequent development of breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Calcifications Decrease

With Tamoxifen (Antifungal) Treatment

and Georgian- (1994) reported the regression of breast

cancer in four patients who had been treated with tamoxifen. The

patients were closely monitored with physical examination and

mammography for a minimum of 2 years.

In all cases, the features of malignancy which were seen on

mammograms regressed. These results were documented by a decrease in

the number of calcifications and in the size of spiculated masses.

These results suggest that these breast calcifications are dynamic

in nature, being able to regress as effective treatment reduces the

cancer.

CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE

The presence of oxalate calcifications in the breasts of virtually

every patient with breast cancer, and their subsequent regression as

a result of treatment with the antifungal agent tamoxifen, points to

the strong possibility that there is a fungal role in this cancer.

There have even been reports of fungal cells growing out of cancer

cells. The existence of a viable fungal sub-forms—with its DNA co-

mixed with a human\'s own DNA—could well explain the bizarre

appearance of the DNA in cancer cells. Support for such a \ " science

fiction\ " type scenario is found in the observation that a lectin

staining procedure, used to find \ " invisible\ " fungi in tissue

specimens, happens to identify breast cancer cells. Normal cells do

not stain with these same lectin staining procedures.\ "

WHAT AB 815 WILL DO FOR YOU:

AB 815 will better protect workers exposed to chemicals that cause

cancer or reproductive or developmental damage. The California

Environmental Protection Agency sets standards for environmental

exposure for many chemicals. We are particularly concerned about 68

substances which the California EPA has said are either carcinogens,

reproductive or developmental hazards. DESPITE THIS, however,

workers may LEGALLY be exposed to these 68 TOXIC CHEMICALS in the

workplace in amounts that are magnitudes greater than we are allowed

to be exposed to them in our general environment. These toxics are

either completely unregulated in the work place or are under-

regulated (workers are only protected from short term effects such

as headaches or dizziness).

If you are not able to attend but want to help anyway (EVEN IF YOU

LIVE OUT OF STATE), please send your letters of support to:

Dan Chia

Office of CA Assemblywoman Sally Lieber

P.O. Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0022

Tel: (916) 319-2022

Fax: (916) 319-2122

E-mail: dan.chia@...

NOTICE TO ALL \ " MOLD-SURVIVOR\ " WEBSITE \ " WEBMASTERS\ " . PLEASE FEEL

FREE TO POST THIS TO YOUR SITES IN ITS ENTIREITY. THANK YOU.

P.S.: This is \ " big news\ " but NOT the one I will be sharing soon...

keep posted.

God Bless you and your continuing progress toward improved health.

Doug Haney

EnviroHealth Research & Consulting, Inc.

E-mail: _Haney52@...