Re: Environmental groups petition U.S. to regulate air fresheners

[Guest guest]

Praise God!!!!!!!

Every time I see one of those commercials for this stuff, I just cringe!!!

By the way my Daughters school has made her classroom fragrance free, and

ordered an Austin air purifier for her class room and now I am working on the

rest of the school.

Keep the faith.

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charlesb35 <charlesb35@...> wrote:

For everyone with MCS, here's some good news.

Scented sprays, gels and plug-in fresheners offer no public health

benefits yet contain harmful chemicals linked to breathing

difficulties, developmental problems in babies and cancer in

laboratory animals, according to the petition sent to the two federal

agencies.

The environmental groups argue that in houses, offices and restrooms,

Americans suffer significant exposure " to a veritable cocktail of

dangerous and potentially dangerous volatile organic compounds. In

cases of mold and damp indoor environments, air fresheners may hide

an indicator of potentially serious health threats to the respiratory

system. "

For the entire article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?

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[Guest guest]

I am hopeful.

[Guest guest]

We all need to do whatever we can to support these people because if

politicians start to understand sensitization to VOCs they may start to

understand mold illness and how it effects people. THEY ARE CLOSELY RELATED

ISSUES...

Plus many people with mold illness (myself included) get sick when they get

exposed to some of these strong fragrances.

Some people get very sick. Wearing and using useless toxic smells is not a

right.

Many of us are forced to deal with these smells (which do not freshen air,

they pollute it) in our workplaces and in public spaces and there really

should be an understanding that to wear or use these smells is an act of

physically invading people.