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Apparently US federal law permits any of up to 25 chemicals to be present in any consumer product without any mention of it on the label. (with this being "somewhat stricter" in California)
I saw this on a newsgroup, and I also saw it somewhere in the archives here where Walt mentioned it. I can't re-find it or find anything else on the net about it, so would like to ask him (or anyone) for clarification...
Is this as bad as it sounds? It SOUNDS like it gives a manufacturer license to go down the list of chemical contents and cross off the ones they don't want to show on the label. (To what extent a company would actually DO this, is something else.)
Is it any of *any* 25 chemicals? Or is it a fixed list of a certain 25?
Perhaps the intent of this law is to spare companies the burden of listing absolutely everything down to the most insignificant amounts. (I am guessing.) Trace amounts of something can still be significant, however... all depending on what it is.
A little better understanding would be helpful. My concern is how much of a concern is this...?
In Reply to: Supplement ingredients - not all need be listed? posted by Jan on July 09, 2002 at 03:58:42:
Hi, Jan.
It was MY impression that the number was more like 35. The reason they can get away with this is that those ingredients are not considered to be "active" for what the product is for. Since they are "inactive" there is no reason to include them on the lable.
Of course, they totally ignore all the millions of people who might be sensitive to ANY of those "inactive" ingredients--which are fillers, preservatives, colorings, etc. At least there are an increasing number of manufacturers who are offering products without these potential toxins and hypersensitivity reactants. People just have to be educated enough to look for them.
Remember that these laws and regulations were made at the behest of lobbyists and the lawmakers have not a clue as to what they are regulating. Any physician consultants they might call in to testify are pre-selected by the lobbyists (all the legislators care is that they have a lot of letters after their names--which calls into play the most powerful Tolstoy Syndrome in our culture) and have even less of a clue than the legislators.
SIGH!
Walt
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