I have been doing a ton of research as of late and I haven't been blogging much about it. It has been disheartening to read about a benzene cover up, cancer research being paid off, and finding out that millions of dollars have been spent to keep this hidden. Yes, I said cover up.
The "Benzene Health Research Consortium", funded by The American Petroleum Institute, spent a growing amount of money from $19 million in 2001 to a whopping $35 million in 2008, all to hide the growing statistics showing that benzene is a carcinogen and zero is tolerant for us. Instead of finding ways to remove this from our products, and keep us safe, they fought to keep it in our products. I would be shocked to see what the spending is today, especially since many of the websites I research are missing and show a 404 days after I use them. Someone is scrubbing the net. There are also about 30 papers that were written from this project called "The Shanghai Project" , which oil companies seeded and made by peer review, which OSHA officials called "a good example of how the scientific literature is being polluted by people working for the industry." Its industry funded scientists writing papers, which ended up as about 20 journal articles. (The last one was done in 2009, according to the article I was reading, but it may just be the information available) These have played a key role in benzene litigation. So,they play dirty pool when they get sued by people dying of cancer. What can we expect as we are reacting from hair color? This is why the hair color companies WIN WHEN WE SUE THEM. Oh, and this doesn't include the hundreds of millions of dollars that they spend on lobbying Washington. I knew there was a lot of money spent on this, but it took me time to find it. It is why Congress keeps control of hair color. It is why the insert of the package says "you may get a rash" when in fact you can even go into anaphylactic shock and die. we should have the facts, and have the right to choose.
Benzene is in PPD, and TDS. THE AMOUNT OF BENZENE set by federal standards for work conditions is 1 part per billion. I'm pretty sure that the hair color we are putting on our heads is a much stronger concentrate than that. Benzene is the 17th most common produced chemical in the U.S. It's quietly listed as being in these products:
Cigarette Smoke
Solvents
Crude Oil
Diesel exhaust
Gasoline
Styrofoam
Ingredients in:
Synthetic Rubber
Lubricants
DYES
Detergents
Drugs
Pesticides
However, the occupations they list as hazards are:
Steel Workers
Refinery Workers
Printers
Shoe Makers
Lab Technicians
Gas Station Employees
Firefighters
Where are the hairdressers? They even exclude us when they test for bladder cancer, and the testing was done on BARBERS, who do very little dying. Hairdressers probably do 50-70% of their business as dying, as a barber does about 10%. So let's call for better testing! Let's call for benzene to be outed! We deserve to know what we put on our heads! It's our choice!
I recently read in a medical journal that hair dye may lead to breast cancer. Previous studies were paid, and the results were tainted. I actually found one of them, and it was done in Finland, where most people are blond, and most coloring is blond. Therefore, the amount of dark dying being done is MINIMAL, which will make the amount of PPD reactions or cancer results will be skewed from what they would be in the rest of the world.
What can I take from this? This is why we can't find doctor's t take this seriously, why our friends think we are crazy, why the TV thinks this is rare. In reality one in ten women has some amount of reaction. Look around you, in a group of ten women who color their hair, one has at least itching when they color their hair. This is a reaction, which may, or may not ever get worse.
What can you take from this? I hope you understand exactly where the blocking is coming from. I hope that you are proactive, and report your color allergy to the FDA. I hope you read all of my blog entries. There is information in each of them you may be able to use. Last,if you can't find the help you need on my blog, you can contact me by email for a paid consultation. Ginamarietaro@gmail.com
The "Benzene Health Research Consortium", funded by The American Petroleum Institute, spent a growing amount of money from $19 million in 2001 to a whopping $35 million in 2008, all to hide the growing statistics showing that benzene is a carcinogen and zero is tolerant for us. Instead of finding ways to remove this from our products, and keep us safe, they fought to keep it in our products. I would be shocked to see what the spending is today, especially since many of the websites I research are missing and show a 404 days after I use them. Someone is scrubbing the net. There are also about 30 papers that were written from this project called "The Shanghai Project" , which oil companies seeded and made by peer review, which OSHA officials called "a good example of how the scientific literature is being polluted by people working for the industry." Its industry funded scientists writing papers, which ended up as about 20 journal articles. (The last one was done in 2009, according to the article I was reading, but it may just be the information available) These have played a key role in benzene litigation. So,they play dirty pool when they get sued by people dying of cancer. What can we expect as we are reacting from hair color? This is why the hair color companies WIN WHEN WE SUE THEM. Oh, and this doesn't include the hundreds of millions of dollars that they spend on lobbying Washington. I knew there was a lot of money spent on this, but it took me time to find it. It is why Congress keeps control of hair color. It is why the insert of the package says "you may get a rash" when in fact you can even go into anaphylactic shock and die. we should have the facts, and have the right to choose.
Benzene is in PPD, and TDS. THE AMOUNT OF BENZENE set by federal standards for work conditions is 1 part per billion. I'm pretty sure that the hair color we are putting on our heads is a much stronger concentrate than that. Benzene is the 17th most common produced chemical in the U.S. It's quietly listed as being in these products:
Cigarette Smoke
Solvents
Crude Oil
Diesel exhaust
Gasoline
Styrofoam
Ingredients in:
Synthetic Rubber
Lubricants
DYES
Detergents
Drugs
Pesticides
However, the occupations they list as hazards are:
Steel Workers
Refinery Workers
Printers
Shoe Makers
Lab Technicians
Gas Station Employees
Firefighters
Where are the hairdressers? They even exclude us when they test for bladder cancer, and the testing was done on BARBERS, who do very little dying. Hairdressers probably do 50-70% of their business as dying, as a barber does about 10%. So let's call for better testing! Let's call for benzene to be outed! We deserve to know what we put on our heads! It's our choice!
I recently read in a medical journal that hair dye may lead to breast cancer. Previous studies were paid, and the results were tainted. I actually found one of them, and it was done in Finland, where most people are blond, and most coloring is blond. Therefore, the amount of dark dying being done is MINIMAL, which will make the amount of PPD reactions or cancer results will be skewed from what they would be in the rest of the world.
What can I take from this? This is why we can't find doctor's t take this seriously, why our friends think we are crazy, why the TV thinks this is rare. In reality one in ten women has some amount of reaction. Look around you, in a group of ten women who color their hair, one has at least itching when they color their hair. This is a reaction, which may, or may not ever get worse.
What can you take from this? I hope you understand exactly where the blocking is coming from. I hope that you are proactive, and report your color allergy to the FDA. I hope you read all of my blog entries. There is information in each of them you may be able to use. Last,if you can't find the help you need on my blog, you can contact me by email for a paid consultation. Ginamarietaro@gmail.com
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