Since
it's inception, Neways' fundamental mission has been to create a product
line free of all known toxic ingredients and carcinogens. It's a
known fact that our daily toxic exposure is at an all-time high- in our
air, water, and food.But most people are shocked when they learn the
consumer products they use daily are loaded with toxic ingredients ex.
shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, deodorant, bubblebath, bodywash, shaving
cream, moisturizers, etc., virtually everything you put on your body may
expose your body to avoidable health hazards.
Reproduced below are excerpts of the speech given by Dr. Samuel Epstein, founder of Cancer Prevention Coalition and Co-Author, The Safe Shopper's Bible. He is Professor of Environmental and Occupational medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health and the winner of the "Alternative Pulitzer Prize". Click here for Cancer Prevention Champion Receives 'Alternative Pulitzer' Saturday, March 27, 1999. "I have been concerned for many years about getting information - which remains buried in government and industry files or relatively inaccessible in the scientific literature - about avoidable, involuntary carcinogenic exposures to the public. In other words, to assume a burden about which regulatory agencies have failed to address or even inform the public and, more importantly, issues which the cancer establishment has failed to provide decision-making bodies. And the object of this was to recognize that as the regulatory process, in fact, is a virtual failure - and it is - whether in Canada or elsewhere, then what should be our only option? Clearly, it is the responsibility of independent public health experts to make this information available to the public.......... Over the last few years, we've seen encouraging developments. Several manufacturers have started phasing out old processes and marketing procedures in terms of eliminating toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, and shifting into the whole area of safer products.......... Now, let's move on to cosmetics and toiletries. Mainstream cosmetics and toiletries are a witch's brew of undisclosed carcinogenic ingredients, contaminants and precursors. In the United States, there are no regulations for labeling cosmetics and toiletries, but the industry has 'voluntarily' agreed to identify them on the back. However, the list of names which you see on the back are absolutely meaningless to 99.9% of toxicologists and chemists. You have to have highly specialized expertise to be able to evaluate cosmetic labels because of the following problems:
Information of this kind is
vital to protect you and me as consumers, and to say to the regulators,
'You've failed, the marketplace is going to take over; let's punish the
reckless industries by boycotting their products.' Boycotting them in
two ways - not buying from them is one thing, but also going with this
information to the local supermarket......."
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