Guest guest Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Howdy Anya, > Might be more to this than meets the eye .. Colorado now has wide spread > medical marijuana available. Power corrupts and those with power are often > easily corrupted. > Maybe they're stoned ;0 > If folks will get out and vote during the mid terms .. lotsa loser legislators from both parties will get a modern day stoning and have to go look for a real job. Considering the jobs situation now in America that is poetic justice in its finest form. ;-) > Couldn't resist, sorry! > Same here. ;-) > All my best, > Anya > <http://anyasgarden.com/> > http://NaturalPerfumers.com <http://naturalperfumers.com/> > > Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch ... http://www.AV-AT.com <http://www.av-at.com/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Hi Marcia, I am confused. I regularly refer to the Cosmetic Safety Database by Environmental Working Group, and I think it is a very valuable resource. Is this information being mis-applied when it comes to the pending Colorado situation? Sue Aromatherapy_Essentially Hi Susan, As in everything, there is good stuff and there is bad. I believe the people at the EWG are perhaps primarily volunteers, Skin Deep is a huge database and requires tremendous maintenance. There are some dots between EWG, Skin Deep and CFSC that aren't connected if you attempt to follow and verify exact source at the root for their toxicity claims. There are links that are broken on Skin Deep that should connect to the appropriate research in PubMed. The biggest problem is within CFSC itself. As I pointed out, they worked against (perhaps unknowingly) small business interests during the FDA Globilization Act Committe process and were nonresponsive to signers when queried. There are many articles on http://www.aromaconnection on standards, research and cosmetic issues, however, we are volunteers, too. Our search tool isn't functioning and lord knows everyone has not used the same categories. But, spend some time, there's information on why we are questioning the database at Skin Deep. Also, Kayla Fioravanti at Essential Wholesale has lots of information on this issue on her blog. What we are worried about is that regulations are attempted to be decided, not by science and the usual research bodies, but by consumer groups such as CFSC. Read the other blogs I listed in mine; you'll get a picture. Kayla's blogpost is there, you can spend some time looking for her other well reasoned comments about Skin Deep (EWG's database). Be Well, Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence http://www.wingedseed.com http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com http://www.aromaconnection.org " We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. " - Winston Churchill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 I plan on writing a letter. I got involved with Donna Marie with the FDA legisltation. The problem with these consumer groups is most of them ARE headed by volunteers, housewives, politician wives and they read magazines and take the articles for fact without doing any research, they have no background in the subject matter. I don't have a very high opinion of politicians anyway because they rely on people to feed them with information regardless of whether the information is true or not. They just deal with little information and move on to the next item on the agenda. Chaeya ATFE , " Marcia Elston " <Marcia wrote: > > > > Hi Marcia, > > I am confused. I regularly refer to the Cosmetic Safety Database by > Environmental Working Group, and I think it is a very valuable resource. Is > this information being mis-applied when it comes to the pending Colorado > situation? > > Sue > Aromatherapy_Essentially > > Hi Susan, > > As in everything, there is good stuff and there is bad. I believe the > people at the EWG are perhaps primarily volunteers, Skin Deep is a huge > database and requires tremendous maintenance. There are some dots between > EWG, Skin Deep and CFSC that aren't connected if you attempt to follow and > verify exact source at the root for their toxicity claims. There are links > that are broken on Skin Deep that should connect to the appropriate research > in PubMed. The biggest problem is within CFSC itself. As I pointed out, > they worked against (perhaps unknowingly) small business interests during > the FDA Globilization Act Committe process and were nonresponsive to signers > when queried. There are many articles on http://www.aromaconnection on > standards, research and cosmetic issues, however, we are volunteers, too. > Our search tool isn't functioning and lord knows everyone has not used the > same categories. But, spend some time, there's information on why we are > questioning the database at Skin Deep. Also, Kayla Fioravanti at Essential > Wholesale has lots of information on this issue on her blog. > > What we are worried about is that regulations are attempted to be decided, > not by science and the usual research bodies, but by consumer groups such as > CFSC. Read the other blogs I listed in mine; you'll get a picture. Kayla's > blogpost is there, you can spend some time looking for her other well > reasoned comments about Skin Deep (EWG's database). > > Be Well, > Marcia Elston, Samara Botane/Nature Intelligence > http://www.wingedseed.com > http://www.wingedseed.blogspot.com > http://www.aromaconnection.org > " We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. " - Winston > Churchill > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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