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Title: FDA Bans Triclosan & 18 Other Antibacterial Soap Ingredients
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URL Source: https://draxe.com/fda-bans-triclosan/
Published: Oct 12, 2017
Author: Dr. Josh Axe
Post Date: 2017-10-12 21:52:45 by BTP Holdings
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FDA Bans Triclosan & 18 Other Antibacterial Soap Ingredients

Dr. Josh Axe

With mountains of data suggesting the antibacterial soap chemical triclosan is a toxic ripoff and completely unnecessary for everyday use, the Food and Drug Administration finally announced it’s banning the ingredient in consumer hand and body washes. As the FDA bans triclosan and related antibacterial soap chemicals, manufacturers have one year to remove it and 18 other antibacterial ingredients from products (or pull products containing these ingredients from store shelves).

FDA Bans Triclosan: the Details

For years, even the FDA admitted that regular soap and water proved just as effective as antibacterial soaps without the harmful side effects, urging everyday people to skip out on the overkill of using antibacterial soap. (1) One of the major concerns? It became increasingly clear that using antibiotic soaps contributed to antibiotic resistance. The more we expose germs to germ-fighting substances like antibiotics and antibacterial soaps, the better they adapt. Nature’s good at that. So by the time the FDA finally moved to ban triclosan and related compounds in early September 2016, antibiotic resistance exploded into a full-blown global health crisis.

In 2013, the FDA issued a rule requiring companies to provide data proving antibacterial chemicals were safe and effective. In addition, they had to demonstrate antibacterial products were superior to non-antibacterial ones in regards to preventing human illness or reducing infection. (And they had to use data from clinical trials.) Companies weren’t able to do this, according to the FDA.

That prompted many companies to start voluntarily pulling triclosan from their products and replacing them with other antibacterial chemicals not on the FDA’s current ban list. (This begs the question, are we just replacing one list of dangerous ingredients with another?)

So as the FDA bans triclosan & related compounds, including triclocarban (triclosan’s cousin found in antibacterial bar soap) here’s are the main takeaways:

The active ingredients involved in this FDA antibacterial ingredient ban include: cloflucarban, fluorosalan, hexachlorophene, hexylresorcinol, iodine complex (ammonium ether sulfate and polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate), iodine complex (phosphate ester of alkylaryloxy polyethylene glycol), nonylphenoxypoly (ethyleneoxy) ethanoliodine, poloxamer-iodine complex, povidone-iodine 5 to 10 percent, undecoylium chloride iodine complex, methylbenzethonium chloride, phenol (greater than 1.5 percent), phenol (less than 1.5 percent) 16, secondary amyltricresols, sodium oxychlorosene, tribromsalan, triclocarban, triclosan, triple dye Manufacturers will have one year to comply with the rulemaking by removing products from the market or reformulating (removing antibacterial active ingredients) these products

This FDA ban applies to over-the-counter consumer hand soaps and body washes . It does not ban the uses of these antibacterial soap chemicals sanitizers or wipes, or in soaps used in hospital or food service settings.

The FDA is allowing one more year before ruling on three other antibacterial ingredients in consumer soaps and body washes — benzalkonium chloride, benzethonium chloride and chloroxylenol (PCMX) Consumer antibacterial washes containing these specific ingredients may be marketed during this time while data are being collected. (2, 3)

“Consumers may think antibacterial washes are more effective at preventing the spread of germs, but we have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water.” — Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

FDA Bans Triclosan: What Took So Long? 

Let me be clear: Whenever FDA makes a decision that favors public health over corporations, we need to take a moment and applaud that effort. But let’s not forget — that’s the agency’s job. And over the year’s, there’s been quite a bit of evidence suggesting triclosan should not have found its way into everyday products in the first place. As the FDA bans triclosan today, it’s important to notes that we’ve known for quite some time that it’s one of worst endocrine disruptors to date. It threatens the efficacy of our lifesaving antibiotics. And it begs the question: Why are questionable ingredients allowed on the market? Why is the FDA allowing the American public to be guinea pigs?

While scientists hunkered down to bring us years of data, organizations like Environmental Working Group conducted research and even built the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database to help consumers figure out the dangers of everyday personal care products. In a first-of-its kind study, in 2008, EWG found triclosan and 15 other toxic chemicals in blood and urine of 20 teen girls from eight states and the District of Columbia.

“EWG research found industry adding this sketchy, endocrine-disrupting germ killer to all kinds of soaps and even to toothpaste. Nine years ago we found it at disturbing levels in San Francisco Bay.

Worse yet, EWG studies detected the stuff in breast milk and in bodies of teenage girls. Clearly this is an industry that needed a good, swift kick in the triclosan. It took far too long, but … the FDA delivered.” — Ken Cook, co-found and president of EWG

As the FDA bans triclosan, it’s a good time to look back on its ties to numerous health and environmental problems:

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The article has a laundry list of bad chemicals to avoid.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

it begs the question: Why are questionable ingredients allowed on the market? Why is the FDA allowing the American public to be guinea pigs?

Because We are the Enemies of the State, and it's 'the law':

"...the infamous Section 5 (b) which classified the citizens of the United States as enemies of their government. The Trading With the Enemy Act has now been duly codified, and is a permanent part of the U.S. Federal Code. And the American people have permanently been classified as enemies of their federal government.

And in 1977 the war against We the People ramped up when Congress gave the Dept of Defense the following ‘authorization’:

The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States].” -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375

Now add these assaults to the list: government created lab viruses, toxic vaccines, depleted uranium ammunition, fluoridated water, aspartame, GMO food and mercury fillings . . . and you simply cannot deny that the war against We the People by the de facto federal government is very real and is still raging on.

We obviously have a de facto government that has been robbing, enslaving, and . . . murdering the population of this country for a very long time. They made us their enemy during the fraudulent ‘state of emergency’ in 1933 and have used their wars and their national emergencies (like 911) to keep the people in that status ever since...."

anticorruptionsociety.com...-the-enemies-of-the=state

The law below grants unlimited use of all types of weapons including remote electronic weapons on mass numbers of U.S. citizens....

U.S. Code available in all libraries

TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE

CHAPTER 32 - CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM (hidden in back pocket of volume!)

Sec. 1520a. Restrictions on use of human subjects for testing of chemical or biological agents. Where such activities can be done without the subjects being notified.

www.us- government-torture.com/handoutfront.html

More on that here [scroll way down to where it says this above the large box:

1520a one of the many statute legislations that apply to treating you as lab animals... ]

"...(b) Exceptions

Subject to subsections (c), (d) , and (e) of this section, the

prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a

test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:

(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,

therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or

research activity....

IOW, the above is ALL 'LEGAL'.

www.us-government- torture.com/

......and because they are the devil's seed and that's what they do:

biblehub.com/genesis/3-15.htm

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. biblehub.com/john/10-10.htm

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2017-10-13   15:43:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#1)

The Trading With the Enemy Act

You are correct about this. The Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 (as Amended) is the main reason that We, the People, are the enemy of the government. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2017-10-13   16:24:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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