Re: Professor urges us to take people with chemical sensibility into account

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Has anyone ever approached someone wearing terrible smelling perfume

and told them about it? I finally the other asked a woman in the the

grocery checkout line to please move back because her perfume was

making me ill...that I was allergic to it. She did move back, but she

and her friend gave each other condescending looks. I think I'll write

a local news article about it.

Barth

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l> http://networkedblogs.com/p26696776

l> Yesterday (Feb 2, 2010), in an independent student newspaper from the

University of New Hampshire, a professor of chemical engineering appealed to the

community to take " Canaries " into account

l> regarding the use of chemicals and especially scents. He spoke of those

persons who suffer from Chemical Sensitivity and who have to be seen – like

those former canaries in mines – as indicators

l> for toxic chemicals.

l> Some American and Canadian Universities have a " Scent Free Policy " which

means that the use of perfumes and products containing scents is prohibited

within these Universities. All visitors have to

l> meet this policy. It allows students with allergy and chemical sensitivity to

work and study.

l> Professor Ihab Farag, Chemical Engineering Department:

l> Many of us are familiar with canaries, the beautiful, colorful birds that

tend to sing most of the time. Canaries also saved many human lives in

coalmines. This is because canaries are much more

l> sensitive to toxic gases than humans. Miners would take canaries with them in

the coalmine. If the canary stopped singing and fell (or died), the miners knew

to leave the coal mine quickly to

l> safety.MORE at link...