C A N C E RC A N C E R……Personal care Personal care

productsproducts© Cancer Prevention Coalition 5/031

Why are Personal Care Products

Potentially Harmful?Many formulations contain

harmful ingredients that have extremely small

molecules. These molecules penetrate the

skin and the blood system and quickly build up in the

organs and tissues.

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Concerns were expressed by Senator Kennedy at hearings on the 1997 FDA cosmetics reform bill. "Our message is

that cosmetics can be dangerous to your health. --The American people have a right to full and fair information about the actual and potential dangers of the products they use every day."

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Senator Kennedy Senator Kennedy

CONCERNED

Why are toxins & carcinogens not disclosed Why are toxins & carcinogens not disclosed on personal care product labels?on personal care product labels?

“Ingredients of cosmetics and personal care products (CPCP) are generally identified on their labels by a long list of chemicals. However, this is meaningless to the overwhelming majority of consumers, let alone to expert toxicologists and cancer prevention professionals. This critically necessitates a “Red Flag” warning of the wide range of multiple carcinogenic ingredients, contaminants and precursors in most mainstream industry products.”

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Toxic Ingredients Toxic Ingredients

* Dr. Samuel Epstein, Page 17 Unreasonable Risk

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Cosmetic Ingredient ReviewCosmetic Ingredient ReviewCompendium 2000Compendium 2000

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* Based on review of 917 ingredients

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1% 12%

33%54%

Unsafe

Insufficient

Safe w/QualificationsSafe

• Body Lotion• Body Wash• Conditioner• Deodorant• Hair Spray

• Gel/Mousse/Pomade• Hand Soap• Mouthwash• Shampoo• Toothpaste

Personal Care ProductsPersonal Care Products……Used daily by Used daily by MenMen

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(about 10 daily)

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• Hand Soap• Shampoo• Toothpaste

Infants & ChildrenInfants & Children……Personal care products Personal care products

Used dailyUsed daily

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(about 3 daily)

(about 13 daily)

• Body Lotion

• Body Wash

• Shampoo & Conditioner

• Deodorant

• Face & Hand Lotion

• Face Soap

• Hair Gel/Mousse/Pomade

• Hair Spray

• Hand Soap

• Mouthwash

• Toothpaste

Personal Care ProductsPersonal Care Products……Used daily by Used daily by womenwomen

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(about 6 daily)

• Blush

• Eye Shadow

• Face Powder

• Foundation

• Lipstick

• Mascara

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Cosmetic ProductsCosmetic Products……Used daily by Used daily by womenwomen

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Source of EvidenSource of Eviden

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• 78 IARC seen monographs since 1972

• 500 National institutes of Health Technical Report Series on individual carcinogens

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Cancer Risks of Smoking Tobacco Products Compared to Mainstream Industry Cosmetics and

Personal Care Products

Cancer Risk Smoking Tobacco Products

Use of Cosmetics and Personal Care Products

INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

REGULATORY KNOWLEDGE

CONSUMER KNOWLEDGE

REGULATION

WARNING LABELS

EXPOSURE

ONSET EXPOSURE

ROUTE EXPOSURE

POPULATIONS EXPOSED

RESPONSIBLE CARCINOGENS

WELL DOCUMENTED

WELL DOCUMENTED

WELL DOCUMENTED

LIMITED

EXPLICIT IN MOST NATIONS

VOLUNTARY

USUALLY IN ADOLESENCE

INHALATION

Largely lower socio-economic(except in some Asiatic nations)

MULTIPLE

WELL DOCUMENTED

WELL DOCUMENTED

VIRTUALLY NONE

VIRTUALLY NONE

NONE

INVOLUNTARY

INFANCY

SKIN & INHALATION

VIRTUALLY UNIVERSAL

MULTIPLE

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In September 10, 1997 hearings on the FDA reform bill (HR 1411), Senator Edward M. Kennedy stated: "The cosmetic industry has borrowed a page from the playbook of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health."

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With rare exceptions, such as children’s bubble baths, the FDA has never required industry to label PCC products with any warning of well-documented toxic

or cancer risks, nor has it banned the sale of unsafe products to an unsuspecting public.”

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The Dirty Dozen The Dirty Dozen

Food

Household Products

Beef Frankfurters – (e.g. Oscar Meyer Foods Corporation

Whole Milk – (e.g. Borden or Lucerne)

Ajax Cleanser – Colgate – Polmolive, Inc.

Zud Heavy Duty Cleanser – Reckitt & Colman, Inc.

Lysol Disinfectant Spray – Reckitt & Coleman, Inc.

Zodiac Cat & Dog Flea Collar – Sandoz Agro, Inc.

Ortho Weed-B-Gon Lawn Weed Killer – Monsanto Co.

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The Dirty Dozen Cont.The Dirty Dozen Cont.

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Cosmetics & ToiletriesTalcum Powder – Johnson & Johnson, Inc.

Cover Girl Replenishing Natural Finish Make-up (Foundation) – Proctor & Gamble, Inc.

Crest Tarter Control Toothpaste – Proctor & Gamble, Inc.

Alberto VO5 Conditioner (Essence of Neutral Henna) – Alberto-Culver USA, Inc.

Clairol Nice n’ Easy (Permanent Haircolor) – Clairol, Inc.

* Presented by the Cancer Prevention Coalition at a September 21, 1995 Washington, D.C. press conference, co-sponsored by Ralph Nader, launching publication of The Safe Shopper’s Bible (Appendix 2C)

Talc: Women, in the IR reproductive years, regularly dusting their genital area with Talc after bathing or showering are at approximately 3-fold increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.

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Permanent hair color: Women using permanent or semi-permanent black or dark brown hair dyes are at increased risk for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, chronic leukemia, and also breast cancer. In fact, there is growing evidence that use of these hair dyes accounts for about 20% of all non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas in U.S. women.

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Frank – those ingredients that are carcinogenic themselves.

Hidden – not carcinogenic themselves , but under certain conditions may have carcinogenic properties

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Beef Frankfurters: Children eating up to about a dozen each month are at approximately 4-fold increased risk of brain cancer & 7-fold increased risk of Leukemia. (This is due to the formation of a nitrosamine carcinogen, by the interaction of nitrite, used in colorant, and natural amines in meat).

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OSHA analyzed 2,983 chemicals used in personal care products and found 884 of them to be toxic. 778 can cause acute toxicity

218 can cause reproductive complications

314 can cause biological mutations

146 can cause tumors

376 can cause skin and eye irritations

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“Concerns on the cancer risks from PCC products are emphasized by: lifelong use of multiple products by the majority of the U.S. population; the ready skin absorption of carcinogenic ingredients, further increased by detergents, especially when left on the skin for prolonged periods: and by decades-long suppression of information by the FDA and industry, abetted by a roll-over media, in flagrant denial of consumers’ right to know. Mainstream industry products thus pose major risks of avoidable cancer.”

* Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., undisclosed Carcinogens in Cosmetics and Personal Care Products pose avoidable risks of Cancer warns Samuel Epstein, MD, 1/15/01 PRNewswire

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Medical • Oral Contraceptives

• Estrogen replacement therapy (high doses & prolonged use)

• Premenopausal mammography

• Non-hormonal prescription drugs (anti-hypertensives & tranquilizers)

• Silicone gel breast implants (polyyurethane foam)

Industrial

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Lifestyle

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“So for all these reasons, it must be emphasized that cosmetics & personal care products are one of the most important, if not the single most important, causes of avoidable and involuntary lifelong exposure to multiple carcinogens.”

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Take action now by eliminating them from your use

and replace them with safe products.

Personal care products produced for beauty

without concern for the long term effect on the user need to be eliminated!

Reverse The Epidemic

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Join the CPC

Educate yourself

Be aware of local issues/work place

Reward/Patronize responsible parties

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