Chemical Deception - Dr. Marc Lappe ~ By the 1930's silica dust had been shown to cause acute illness and death

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CHEMICAL DECEPTION - Dr. Marc Lappe

Chapter Eight - An Overview

By the 1930s, no one would dream of intentionally

putting raw silica into the human body because silica

dust had been shown to cause acute illness and death

or a chronic lung-damaging disease known as silicosis

when the dust was breathed. When silicon dioxide in

the form of crystalline silicon is injected into the

body, it stimulates a florid inflammatory response. It

is so potent an inflammatory agent that many

laboratories use it as a " booster " or adjuvant to

provoke the most massive immunologic response possible

in test animals.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has since found

that silicone breast implants were " intentionally

adulterated " with silica that was added as a filler in

the envelope to change the properties of the silicone

in the eslastomer envelope. In the 1940s, Dow Chemical

Company acquired the patent rights and gave them to an

independent subsidiary formed between Dow Chemical and

the Corning Glass Corporation, the Dow-Corning

Corporation of Midland, Michigan. (Corning had the

most expertise in the world in dealing with silica,

the basic ingredient of glass.

Although the original 1966 patent described these

implants as being a totally implantable, nonreactive

device to be placed within the human body, adequate

safety testing or formal trials of the new device were

never conducted. That is, neither the degree of

nonreactivity nor the adequacy of the containment of

the silicone had been established prior to its

marketing. In fact, according to Tom Talcott, the

scientist who helped design the first envelopes, they

were " never designed to hold and retain silicone. "

The slow oozing of silicone gel from breast prostheses

manufactured in the early 1970s is evident to any

person who has held them in his hands; they are greasy

to touch. Yet the company has maintained that it could

not have known that a " bleed problem " existed in

their product until after researchers outside their

laboratories tested them.

Polmanteer, a Dow Corning's scientist, was

granted a mammery prostheses patent: Patent:

#4,138,382, dated February, 1979, which states: " In

the unlikely event of breakage of container 21 or in

the event of seepage of gel 22 through container 21

(e.g. by osmosis), the infinitely swellable gel is

observed to be absorbed and dissipated by the body.

The dissipation of the hydrophilic gel by the body

represents an improvement over previously known

hydrophobic gels. "

Polmanteer's patent also states: The funnel is about

half filled with alumina (obtained from Alcoa)....is

then added along with 0.04g. of Vazo 64 r (an

azobis(isobutyronitrile) free radical catalyst to

initiate polymerization, available from DuPont.)