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Reported in the latest paper on Recognition of MCS, the commissioner of Social Security Administration said on Oct. 31 2007 that SSA recognized MCS a medical determinable impairment. He said this in a legal memo submitted to a federal court that had demanded a clear statement of SSA's position on the subject. For a copy of the legal memo, send a SASE to MCS R&R. To order the whole recognition paper (now 23 pages) call: Albert Donnay, MHS, Exec. Director, MCS Referral & Resources, Inc. 508 Westgate Road, Baltimore MD 21229-2343. Phone:410-362-6400, Fax:410- 362-6401, e-mail:donnaya@rtk.net ==========================================================================

Disability and Fragrance in the Workplace. "The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued an administrative decision . . . that upholds MCS as a disability and states that a fragrance free workplace is not an accommodation that can be simply dismissed as unreasonable." Our Toxic Times, Volume 12, Number 5 Issue Number 131, May 2001. Chemical Injury Information Network Newsletter. http://www.ciin.org

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Contact Dr. Raymond Singer, Ph.D.

Our mission:To provide the highest quality clinical and forensic services for the evaluation and diagnoses of neurobehavioral, neuropsychological and neurotoxic illness from chemicals, injuries and drugs.

Our experience: Evaluating neurobehavioral function and the effects of toxic chemicals, drugs and substances (neurotoxic agents) on the nervous system since 1979; serving the Courts (federal, state and administrative) as a forensic expert witness in both civil and criminal matters since 1983.

Symptoms of neurotoxicity: Toxic chemicals can damage the nervous system and brain. Such chemicals are neurotoxic. A person may or may not be aware of neurotoxic damage when it occurs. ============================================================================= An Overview of MCS by Cynthia Wilson

Back when doctors believed their patients and before psychosomatic illness and stress became a catch-all for illnesses doctors couldn't diagnose, there is evidence to suggest that doctors were diagnosing chemical sensitivities as vapors. Vapors were described as an exhalation of bodily organs held to affect the physical and/or mental condition or as a depressed or hysterical nervous condition. Then in the early 1950's, Theron Randolph, M.D., recognized that people were getting sick from their environment, hence the original name Environmental Illness. Read at ciin.org

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Thursday, 3 April 2008

Scents and Bubbles Mask Toxic Chemicals in Herbal Essences

Herbal Essences Masks Toxic Ingredients

Clairol Herbal Essences used to be known for their racy-yet-humorous commercials of women lathering up in the shower, ending with the line "A Totally Organic Experience." The brand, owned by parent company Proctor & Gamble, has since abandoned this tagline (we can only imagine that people began to question the organic-ness of the product).

Herbal Essences is now marketed largely to girls and young women, employing intense fragrances, bright packaging and shampoo and conditioner names like "none of your frizzness" and "drama clean."

With a name like Herbal Essences, one might think that these products contain natural ingredients, but the brand uses fragrance, sodium laureth sulfate and other chemicals linked to cancer and reproductive problems in its body wash, shampoo and conditioner.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics recommends avoiding products with "fragrance" on the label whenever possible (go for unscented products or those perfumed with only essential oils). Companies are not required to list on product labels any of the chemicals in a fragrance mixture. That means that there could be hundreds of unlabeled neurotoxins, allergens and phthalates—chemicals that have been linked to reproductive harm, early puberty in girls and testicular cancer—in fragranced products like Herbal Essences.

Sodium laureth sulfate is another ingredient to watch out for because it's often contaminated with a carcinogen called 1,4-dioxane, and we did, in fact, find the chemical in a previous formulation of Herbal Essences.

Please tell P&G, makers of Herbal Essences, that you want full disclosure—not ingredients linked to cancer and reproductive harm—in your shampoo!

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