- 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
When you use "perfume" you are using powerful chemicals regulated by the industry that sells them. They may not affect you now, but it doesn’t mean they won’t affect someone next to you. The chemicals go directly into the blood stream when applied to the skin, and absorbed into the skin from clothing. Inhaled chemical fumes go straight to our brains where they can do major harm, and many of these chemical fumes have a “narcotic” effect.
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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