...Government scientists listed formaldehyde as a carcinogen, and said it is found in worrisome quantities in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons....
...An industry spokesman (click title to entry - thank you) said the action will hurt small businesses.
“It will unfairly scare workers, plant neighbors and could have a chilling effect on the development of new products,” said Tom Dobbins of the American Composites Manufacturers Association. “And our companies are primarily small businesses, and this could hurt jobs and local economies.”
Cal Dooley, president and chief executive of the American Chemistry Council, a trade association that represents companies that make and use polystyrene and formaldehyde, rejected the report’s conclusions. “We are extremely concerned that politics may have hijacked the scientific process,” he said.
Some in the industry have promised to continue fighting the report, and will appeal elements of its findings. But some manufacturers already have begun using alternatives to formaldehyde in their products....
I didn't watch the Republicans debate, that is an oxymoron, I didn't have to. There hasn't been anythnig new in the way of policy from the Republicans for the past seven decades. The last real innovator that was a Republican was Lincoln. Interestingly, his war was within the boundaries of the USA. He tried to save the country from itself. Interesting guy.
But, about my sister. To begin, there needs to be some very good lawyers out there to start a class action suit regarding these chemicals and they can consult with The Cleveleand Clinic for clients because Dr. Janet Bay stated, "...there is a brain tumor epidemic...". She stated that to my family as we listened to the description of my sister's brain tumor. My sister was one of nine women in her graduating class (that we know of) with very specific activities that resulted in brain tumors. A biochemist and very dear friend stated, the brain tumors were primarily caused by formaldehyde in the buildnig products of a new junior high school building of which she was the first eventual graduating class to attend there.
She is still alive, still cognizant of her life, is able to attend to her daily habits and needs and still likes to be the fashon bug and an avid shopper. What she no longer is, is married due to her guilt over not having children due to 30 days of radiation, a brain pressure balance that requires 'at times' finiky 'shunts' and she is not an accountant at AT&T International in Morristown, New Jersey. She still has her stock, though. I supervise her 'special' finances as she is unable to control her spending and realize that people take advantage of her beautifully naive personality. She always believes the best in everything and that the sun will come out everyday if you wait long enough through the storm.
Dr. Janet Bay is a magnificent surgeon and her then spouse would not settle for anything but the best. It is he we can thank for her remarkable survival and reasonably intact life. We are all still very good friends; family even. But, the Cleveland Clinic saved her life when no one else could and this family will always be very grateful to professionals that 'saw the women' in the patient and longed to leave her there.
Formaldehyde and many other chemicals used by the private sector in products with abandon is an ORGANIC MOLECULE. It is comprised of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. Human beings are ORGANIC chemical entities and thrive on those elements in the periodic table. The shape of formaldehyde ADDS to its HIGHLY REACTIVE 'PROPERTIES.' The symmetry of a 'planar' molecule with highly reactive hydrogens in the arrangment here is the same as water. If the double bonds of the oxygen molecule were removed , the carbon and hydrogen would have the same molecular arrangement as H-O-H. So it is very reactive in ORGANIC environments, including the internal chemistry of the human body. The double bonded oxygen adds to its reactivity and I am not going to expand on that FACT on this blog. Look it up.
Formaldehyde is the simplest member of a class of organic compounds called aldehydes. These compounds have the structural component of the carbon double bond oxygen and at least one hydrogen atom and are always in the trigonal planar format geometry.
Formaldehyde or methanal is a water soluble gas. A 37% solution is water, known as formalin, is a biological preservative and in used in embalming fluids.
Now, I ask you, does anyone interested in living actually want a chemical used in embalming fluid in the air they breath? Hello?
Republicans don't see the dangers in mixing TOXINS with employment in any venue, be it workers safety or consumer exposure. Why would I care what they have to say? Over twenty-five years and I never petitioned the govenrment so much as simply modified the behavior of my family to avoid this disaster again. Over twenty-five years and it took a President Obama to FINALLY value the life of Americans over Private Sector profits. What good is a job if you die working it?
This is not a 'one time' phenomena. Across this country there are Republican Governors and majority legislatures rolling back all kinds of laws that expose the consumer and workers to OLD dangers all over again.
Sippy Cups vs. Jobs - A False Choice (click here)
Submitted by Sharon Treat on February 17, 2011 - 8:29am
While many Mainers were enjoying a romantic and chocolate-laden Valentine's Day, hundreds of their neighbors spent the day at the State House, where the Regulatory Fairness & Reform Committee met from 9 am until nearly 7 pm taking testimony on LD 1 and the Governor's Phase 1 regulatory reform plan, including a 48-page amendment that was handed to the Committee during the public hearing. The testimony was overwhelmingly in oppositiom to the Governor's plan, echoing what we heard at 7 regional hearings over the past 3 weeks - watch the videos here.On Monday, the Committee heard from the Governor's legal counsel, Dan Billings, who made it clear that while several of the most controversial rollbacks in in Phase 1 were left out of the amendment (for example, the Kids-Safe Products Act, banning Bis-A from sippy cups, clean air protections, eliminating LURC and zoning 3 million acres for development), Governor LePage has NOT backed away from these rollbacks and will be supporting legislation to implement them as we go forward....
Put Republicans back into office?
NO!
My life and the life of American children depends on it !
