The Story of Cosmetics & The Story of Electronics
- Pouring toxic chemicals in a factory move into the workers and communities
- Average women use 12 personal care products daily
- Avg men use 6 products daily
- Less than 20% of chemicals in cosmetics are assessed for safety by the industry's safety panel
- Carcinogens can cause cancer
- Neurotoxins and reproductive toxins can dmg brain development and reproduction in animals
- humans are animals
- Babies are born pre-polluted
- Herbal, natural, organic have no legal definition on labels
- Government and industry chooses what goes in products
- No laws to get rid of toxins in products
- FDA doesn't assess safety of personal care products
- Since 1938, only 8 of over 12000 chemicals ingredients have been banned
- FDA doesn't require the ingredients to be on the label
- Industry has setup their own committee to self police their products
- Designed for the dump is to make stuff for throwing it away quicker
- Moore's Law can increase processor speed in 18 months
- IBM workers have 40% more miscarriages and more able to die from blood cancer
- Males have brain and kidney cancer