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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
This maybe old news but I seldom see anything on it.
At work, my job asbestos and lead abatement, our required personal protective clothing 'white suits and they have "possible" "cancer causing" labels on the package they come in.
We had this discussion at work and a female coworker said lots of clothing, especially shoes have these labels on them. "In the state of California..."
A few weeks ago I watched DR Brian Clement of Hippocrates Health Institute on YouTube. Quite shocking to be honest. It made me rethink my outdoor clothing fabric selection!
In the fight for "a cure", maybe start with banning ALL cancer causing fabrics?
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2329 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:49 am
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If you want to avoid cancer, do (in this order):
1. Choose your parents carefully
2. Get plenty of sleep
3. Eat well
4. Exercise
Prop 65 is a bit nuts.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
The cal law requires the label on anything that is linked to cancer in animals regardless of dose. IMO it is so broad as to be useless as it applies to most everything.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9495 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:59 am
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Seventy2002 Member
Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 512 | TRs | Pics
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neek wrote: | If you want to avoid cancer, do (in this order): |
5. Stay out of California
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moonspots Happy Curmudgeon
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 2456 | TRs | Pics Location: North Dakota |
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:32 am
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Seventy2002 wrote: | neek wrote: | If you want to avoid cancer, do (in this order): |
5. Stay out of California |
That's how I see it! But I'd rate this as reason #1. Lots of really bad stuff in California, apparently.
"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 12:33 pm
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washing instructions
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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texasbb Misplaced Texan
Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 1153 | TRs | Pics Location: Tri-Cities, WA |
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 3:02 pm
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That CA Prop 65 is quite possibly the most ridiculous law/rule/reg ever passed. You can almost consider it a list of safe products.
I wouldn't waste a minute of worry on clothes.
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:13 pm
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“Dr” Brian Clement is a lying crackpot. Read up on him, then decide if you can trust anything he says.
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2818 | TRs | Pics
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Studies have shown if you drink water for 110 years, you have a 99.999% chance of dying.
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7697 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Cyclopath
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 4:48 pm
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neek wrote: | If you want to avoid cancer, do (in this order):
1. Choose your parents carefully
2. Get plenty of sleep
3. Eat well
4. Exercise
Prop 65 is a bit nuts. |
5. Die of something else first. Nobody died of cancer when we were hunting and gathering, and 30 was a rope old age. Now, we have lots of time for the DNA to unravel.
When I was very young, people still smoked on airplanes. We've come a long way. "Sitting is the new smoking."
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2410 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:43 pm
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World's oldest couple celebrates 80 years of marriage. Clearly, good genes are #1.
Anything "carcinogenic" in close personal proximity isn't an immediate threat unless it can be ingested/inhaled/absorbed thru the skin. What breaks down in the waste stream, though, is the real concern, IMO. I was shocked to discover that King County (and many other large municipalities across the country) reprocess sewage sludge for use as compost/fertilizer. Here, they use it on everything from clearcut forest land to wheat fields in eastern WA. It's even in certain mulches at the local stores for home use if you know what to look for on the label. Here's a Sierra Club article on the subject. Also this. Sorry for the digression, not intending to turn this into another hot topic.
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:12 am
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^ The reprocessed sewage sludge is packaged and sold as "TaGrow" down here (a portmanteau of "Tacoma" and "Grow"), and is available either directly from Tacoma Public Utilities Solid Waste Division, OR it can be purchased by the bag at local retailers.
Demand for the product is such that the ACE Hardware store at 30th & Pearl ran out several times last summer.
I'm sorry that I was unable to read the Sierra Club article you cited, but I do not speak acronymese.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2410 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Anne Elk
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:31 am
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"There are yahoos out there. It’s why we can’t have nice things." - Tom Mahood
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12798 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:28 am
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groovy.
epa.gov wrote: | Although PFOA and PFOS are no longer manufactured in the United States, they are still produced internationally and can be imported into the United States in consumer goods such as carpet, leather and apparel, textiles, paper and packaging, coatings, rubber and plastics. |
So.... in their infinite wisdom, the US government was able to get the chemical manufacturers to stop producing this stuff in country, but gave the green light to companies importing products using the same chemicals.
We currently process almost no leather in this country - almost all of that is done offshore - so we get the chemicals here whether we want them or not. (Check point of origin on that next pair of heavy leather welding gloves at Pacific Welding Supply.)
As to those chemicals (or heavy metals) that are in the processed sewage sludge, good luck trying to change the mind-set of those hauling the stuff home by the wagon load (or SUV load, as the case may be) so that they have bigger and better geraniums. The marketing strategy of the suppliers (like Tacoma Public Utilities) has these people actually believing they are "helping the environment" by re-using the processed sewage sludge.
There has never been, in the history of the world, any shortage of stupidity.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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