Re: [csda] Fwd: newspaper fragrances (fwd)

[Guest guest]

RE: Joint Promotion Adds Stickers to Sweet Smell of Marketing

Here we go again! " Sensory marketing, " indeed. It is MIND

MANIPULATION by the flavors and fragrance industry.

Doesn't matter if it is the California milk board trying to sell milk

by making you smell chocolate chip cookies in a bus shelter, or some

other industry trying to sell its product . . . How does the

petrochemical odor of blackberry make one want to run for a cuppa

Starbucks coffee? Be that as it may, yesterday it was chocolate chip

cookie fragrance, then flavor when there was an uproar over

fragrance, today it's blackberry and tomorrow??? How about some good

ol' skunk? That's a musk . . .

I wonder if they have thought of taking surveys to see how many folks

will AVOID their hotels because of the assaults by the scent strips?

Why is it in this day and age, everyone is so concerned about

graffiti being a vicious hate crime, and yet no one outside the MCS

community gives a thought to the effects of chemical assault under

the guise of a flavor or fragrance? It is only the word flavor or

fragrance that sounds benign.

And what's that line about unrestricted use of flavors or

fragrances????? . . . Oh, YES!!!!!

Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety (third revised

edition; their references were for work of 1973, 1974 and 1976.).

The text reads:

" ... The continuing use of perfumes and essences in food or for

external application should provide sufficient reason for systematic

studies on the pharmacology and chronic toxicity of all components to

ensure that these substances do not contain certain harmful or even

carcinogenic constituents. The fact that most of the ethereal oils

have, for many centuries, been used as flavorurings, digestives,

perfumes and medicaments cannot be considered as guaranteeing their

harmlessness; the unrestricted use of these substances can be

considered justified only following laboratory testing. " [Emphasis

added.]

Notice those dates . . . the 1970s, which is just about the time the

flavors and fragrance industry really kicked off its reliance upon

petrochemically derived scents.

This idea of mind manipulation via flavors and/or fragrances STINKS.

It stinks to high heavens. When are people going to yell at the tops

of their lungs, I'm not going to take it anymore? We did in the SF

Bay Area and at that time, we tried to sound the warning that

somewhere, somehow, it was going to come to a city near you in the

near future. The future is NOW!!!!

It is past time due to flood our Congress, along with a letter or

email to the FDA. Request that the FDA at the very least require

their warning on all flavors and fragrances released to market

without substantiation of safety. Email to <fdadockets@...>

and reference Petition docket number 99P1340 in the subject line.

Also copy your senators and representative with that same note.

Thank you. (IF you've written before, that's great. YOU may write

again!!!!)

We ALL are stakeholders when it comes to breathing!

-- barb wilkie

EHN president emerita

www.ehnca.org

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At 5:26 AM +0000 4/3/07, Angel says NO MORE 2 Clarins wrote:

>Scented newspapers :

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Betty Bridges, guest speaker

EHN on April 14, 2007

4-6 p.m. social after.

PLEASE, NO FRAGRANCE PRODUCTS!

GREEN products, according to the

US Dept. of the Interior, " MUST NOT contain

petrochemical-derived fragrances. "

http://www.doi.gov/greening/sustain/trad.html

EHN's Fragrance FDA Citizens' Petition 99P-1340

Write to the FDA . . . tell them to protect your health

by regulating the flavors and fragrance industry.

Put Docket Number 99P-1340 on your subject line.

E-mail FDA Dockets at fdadockets@...

Connie Barker, President of EHN

Barb Wilkie, EHN president emerita

topic: fragrances including fabric softeners

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