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Posted: Thursday May 10th, 2007 18:54 |
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If you are a woman and use pads, but especially if you use tampons,
read this and pass it on to your friends. For the men receiving this
email, please forward it to your friends, significant others, sisters,
mothers, daughters, etc. Thanks!
Check the labels of the sanitary pads or tampons that you are going to
buy the next time and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs
stated in this email. No wonder so many women in the world suffer from
cervical cancer and womb tumors. Have you heard that tampon makers
include cancer causing agents in tampons?
Why would they do this?
Because these types of chemicals can make you bleed more, if you bleed
more, you're going to need to use more. Why isn't this against the law
since these things are so dangerous?
Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not
consider tampons as being ingested and therefore, did not consider it
to be illegal or dangerous to include these materials.
This month's Essence magazine mentions 2 manufacturers of a cotton
tampon alternative.
The companies are: Organic Essentials @ 1-800-765-6491 and Terra Femme
@ 1-800-755-0212.
A woman getting her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado sent the following:
I am writing this because women are not being informed about the
dangers of something most of us use: Tampons. I am taking a class this
month and I have been learning a lot about biology and women,
including feminine hygiene. Recently we have learned that tampons are
actually dangerous (for other reasons than TSS). After learning about
this in our class, most of the females wound up feeling angry and
upset with the tampon industry, and I for one, am going to do
something about it. To start, I want to inform everyone I can, and
email is the fastest way that I know how.
HERE IS THE SCOOP:
Tampons contain two things that are potentially harmful: Rayon (for
absorbency), and dioxin (a chemical used in bleaching).
The tampon industry is convinced that we, as women, need bleached
white products in order to view the product as pure and clean. The
problem here is that the dioxin, can lead to very harmful problems for
a woman. Dioxin is potentially carcinogenic (cancer-associated) and is
toxic to the immune and reproductive systems. It has also been linked
to endometriosis and lower sperm counts for men. For both sexes, it
breaks down the immune system. Last September, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) reported that there really is no "acceptable"
level of exposure to dioxin given that it is cumulative and slow to
disintegrate.
The real danger comes from repeated contact (Karen Couppert "Pulling
the Plug on the Tampon Industry"). I'd say using about 4-5 tampons a
day, five days a month, for 38 years is "repeated contact", wouldn't
you? Rayon contributes to the danger of tampons and dioxin because it
is a highly absorbent substance.
Therefore, when fibers from the tampons are left behind in the vagina
(as usually occurs), it creates a breeding ground for the dioxin. It
also stays in a lot longer than it would with just cotton tampons.
This is also the reason why TSS (toxic shock syndrome) occurs.
WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES?
Using feminine hygiene products that aren't bleached and that are all
cotton. Other feminine hygiene products (pads/napkins) contain dioxin
as well, but they are not nearly as dangerous. So, what can you do if
you can't give up using tampons? Use tampons that are made from 100%
UNBLEACHED cotton. Unfortunately, there are very few companies that
make these safe tampons. They are usually only found in health food
stores. Countries all over the world (Sweden, Germany, British
Columbia, etc.) have demanded a switch to this safer tampon, while the
U.S. has decided to keep us in the dark about it. In 1989, activists
in England mounted a campaign against chlorine bleaching. Six weeks
and 50,000 letters later, the makers of sanitary products switched to
oxygen bleaching (one of the green methods available) (MS magazine,
May/June 1995).
WHAT TO DO NOW?
Tell people. Everyone. Inform them. We are being manipulated by this
industry and the government, let's do something about it! Please write
to the companies: Tampax (Tambrands); Playtex; O.B Kotex. All the
1800 numbers are listed on the boxes. Let them know that we demand a
safe product: ALL COTTON UNBLEACHED TAMPONS.
REMINDER: In order not to lose the impact of this email, I suggest
that anyone who wants to forward it to their friends, PLEASE copy this
mail and paste it to a NEW message. That way it will not distort the
whole message with all the forward arrows.
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