The EU Regulations are On Their Way! Full implementation and labelling by 2013??
Here is the big legal document, with lists of regulated compounds - 71 pages with annexes!
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ENGLISH to FRENCH translation: Coming soon!!!
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Additionally, other languages are possible. Here is an example of the translation to Spanish, directly via Google's very impressive suite of language tools: even the links come out in Spanish, for the most part, but there could be some mistakes! Please let me know if you catch any really bad... These language tools are highly recommended!
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Some ingredients in cosmetics and hair dyes could be absorbed and mutate DNA.
These things were recognized already in the 1970s, but too few of us realize their use could be putting our health at risk!
Here is one of the early modern scientific studies showing mutagenesis (changes in DNA molecules) by hair dye ingredients
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1975 June; 72(6): 2423–2427.
Hair dyes are mutagenic: identification of a variety of mutagenic ingredients.
Bruce N Ames, H O Kammen, and E Yamasaki
Discussions in the 70s on mutagenic hazards must somehow have been marginalized, so it is an issue rarely considered.
The real problem about something which could induce DNA level modifications is : sometimes one hit is enough for something significant - maybe not for generations, but even sometimes possible in a single lifetime (i.e. cancer).
The first EFV Prize Contest Winner, 2007 was B. C. from the German part of Switzerland for her idea to help end fashion victimization by educating apprentice hairdressers!
The second EFV Prize 2009 Winner was C. P. from Denmark for the idea of genomic integrity as an alternative focus, more diverse and positive than genotoxicity.
Have you run across this term already? Think about how you would define it.
For those of you more interested in your pets than your neighbors.
Innocents are exposed every day to unknown dangers.
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