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Corporate Cover-up?? Sounds like it to me! Read on...
I recently received a letter from a friend who is in the property insurance business. This letter should be read by everyone as it may directly affect their safety and well being. This blurb is well worth taking the time to read; it may even save your life!
This is one of those bits of information that has not been published in the national media and, rest assured, someone, again, will suffer dire consequences for the cover-up of what must surely be going on. The original message was written by a lady whose Brother and Sister-in-Law learned a hard lesson this past week.
Their house burned down.... nothing left but ashes. Terrible news, however, the good news is: They have good insurance so the house will be replaced and so will most of the contents.
The cause of the conflagration is cause for consternation because our big business buddies believe that it's more important to cover up the crap to create wealth--burn down the house for a buck, that's the motto of our beloved big business brethren.
You see; because when this poor family found out the actual cause of the fire, not only were they sick with remorse and regret, they were damned angry!
After the insurance investigator had sifted through the ashes and remains for several hours of what had once been their house and home containing their beloved irreplaceable possessions, the cause of the fire became painfully apparent.
This investigator traced the origins of the fire to their Master Bathroom. He then asked her Sister-in-Law what she had plugged into the electrical socket on the bathroom wall.
She listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer, etc. Throughout his questioning, the investigator kept saying to her, "No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high temperatures". Then her sister-in-law remembered; she had a Glade Plug-In Air Freshener, in that bathroom.
The investigator had one of those "Aha" moments. He said, absolutely, that that innocuous, innocent little 'Air Freshener' was the cause of the fire. More mind-boggling, he also said that he has seen more house fires started with the plug-in type room air fresheners than by any other cause. He said the plastic from which these units are made is extremely THIN and volatile; in other words these crappy little units that blow chemical contamination into your home to perfume and disguise the smell of the breathable toxins floating in your air not only poison you to death, they also can burn your home to the ground. Lovely. He also said that in every case under investigation there was nothing left to prove that this dangerous little unit even existed.
Talk about a 'Gotcha'!!!
When the investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the plug-in air freshener were still in the socket. The plug-in unit that her sister-in-law used had one of those small night lights built into it. She said she had noticed that the light would dim and then finally go out. She would walk in to the bathroom every few hours and would notice that the light would be back on again. The investigator said that the unit was probably was getting exceedingly hot and would dim and go out rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down it would come back on. So eventually... Poof... her house burns to the ground. The scary part is that this could be anybody...maybe even you!
Pretty high price for sweet smelling air, wouldn't you agree?
When your nice little Glade Air Freshener behaves like that, The Air Purifier Guru says: It is a warning sign--Turn is Off--Immediately! This investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug-in fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many places that have been burned down due to them.
Your advisor: Me, the Air Purifier Guru, says dump those junkie little air fresheners, throw them in the garbage! They are just blowing chemical poisonous toxins into your air and you also run the risk of a dangerous fire!
The air purifier I recommend using is a Plasma-Type such as the Biozone Air Purifier. These are the all-natural and safe method of removing bad odors and they as an added benefit they kill mold mildew and bacteria as well! They also last for a long time as opposed to buying a new air freshener every couple of weeks. Buying those little things are EXPENSIVE as well as dangerous!
When the air at home smells foul, many American households turn to air fresheners. But the chemicals behind those fresh scents are potentially hazardous, according to a recent study.
The September study by the Natural Resources Defense Council assessed 14 of the most popular air freshener brands and found that 12 contained phthalates, chemicals that can cause hormonal abnormalities, birth defects and reproductive problems.
"It is not clear what dose is necessary to create negative health effects, but I've always recommended avoiding excessive exposure to these chemicals, especially for pregnant women," said Gina Solomon, the senior scientist at the NRDC who led the study.
Frequent contact with phthalates can cause cancer, affect fertility, and decrease testosterone and sperm levels in infants, possibly resulting in malformed sex organs. Solomon said the chemicals usually are found in paints, cosmetics and nail polishes and are added to air fresheners to carry the scent and keep it suspended in the air.
According to the NRDC report, three Walgreens products -- Walgreens Scented Bouquet Air Freshener, Walgreens Air Freshener Spray and Walgreens Solid Air Freshener -- contained some of the highest phthalate levels. In response, Walgreens pulled the products off the shelves to run an independent study and confirm the NRDC's claims.
The other products that tested positive for the chemicals were: Air Wick Scented Oil, Citrus Magic, Febreze NOTICEables Scented Oil, Glade Air Infusions, Glade PlugIn Scented Oil, Lysol Brand II Disinfectant, Oust Air Sanitizer Spray, Oust Fan Liquid Refills and Ozium Glycolized Air Sanitizer.
The two products that were tested and found to not contain phthalates were Febreze Air Effects Air Refresher and Renuzit Subtle Effects.
Kelly Semrau, a spokeswoman for SC Johnson, which produces the Glade and Oust brands, said the report was flawed in many ways because the NRDC tested only one sample of each product.
"(The study) is tragic because A, it wasn't scientific, and B, it has potentially scared consumers," Semrau said. "Air fresheners are heavily tested and they are safe. If consumers use them according to the labels, they should feel safe."
Three-fourths of U.S. households use air fresheners, according to the NRDC. The industry is worth $1.72 billion in the U.S., about twice what it was worth in 2003.
But the industry is largely unregulated. The NRDC conducted the study to address what it said was the lack of pre-market testing for household products. Solomon said she is upset that manufacturers are not required to provide consumers with labels listing the ingredients in air fresheners.
"Congress is awake to this issue after the lead-in-toys debacle," Solomon said. "The Consumer Product Safety Commission will get a review and we should expect some serious reform in the way products make it to the store aisles."
Household cleaners are the only household products regulated by the CPSC under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Though the FHSA requires precautionary labeling on the containers of hazardous household products, manufacturers are not required to list all ingredients, according to Colin Dunn, staff writer for the environmental news site TreeHugger (treehugger.com).
"Ingredients (in household cleaners) are considered trade secrets, so government regulations are actually designed to protect this propriety information rather than to protect human health or the environment," Dunn said. "It can be very tough to tell what you are getting into."
The CPSC, like many consumer and environmental protection agencies, is experiencing some budget woes, according to Ed Kang, spokesman for the commission. Kang said the commission does not have the resources nor staff to test thousands of new products every year, so it only conducts a review when a problem is reported.
In response to the NRDC study, a group of environmental organizations is asking the federal government to create stricter guidelines for the air freshener industry. The Sierra Club, Alliance for Healthy Homes and National Center for Healthy Housing have filed a petition with the CPSC demanding extensive product testing, the removal of phthalates from household
