Chromatography (click here)
NMR Spectroscopy (click here)
Infrared Spectroscopy (click here)
Any or all of these 'measurements' of chemical analysis can be performed by the manufacturer and the FDA or any licensing agency of government at very minimal cost. The labs that generate these products have any of these analytical tests right in their labs already. If there is an investigation to 1,4-Dioxane findings PRIOR to marketing these products, it will show up in their 'internal' research.
Guaranteed.
These chemicals are well known to the manufacturers long before they are marketed to insure the 'manufacturing' process is safe enough for employees and 'stable' enough for environmental safety and 'fire/explosive' capacity. I don't want to hear it. This is a huge 'designer loophole' that provides industry with a way of 'cheating' on product safety and providing larger profit margins when other additives would bring the same result with perhaps higher costs.
This is simply outrageous. No more 'marginal' allowances by the FDA. No more. Either a product is SAFE or its NOT. The Bush Advisory Board was the worst thing that happened to the consumer and it needs to be repelled and the FDA returned to its authority and ability to pull products from shelves. There is no excuse for 'marginally safe' products. There just isn't.
1,4-Dioxane occurs as a colorless flammable liquid that is miscible in water. (click title to entry - thank you)
Report: Toxins Common in Baby Products (Click here)
Of the Baby Products Tested, 61% Contained Formaldehyde and 1,4-Dioxane
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
March 12, 2009 -- You aren’t likely to see the chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane listed on the labels of baby bath products, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there, a consumer group is warning.
More than half of children’s bath soaps, shampoos, lotions, and other personal care products tested by the group Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) were found to contain 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde, according to a report released today.
Both of the chemicals are considered probable carcinogens by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Because they are not intentionally added by manufacturers, there is no requirement that product labels list the chemicals when they are present....
1,4-Dioxane chair
