glycol ethers cause flu - cancers *  autoimmune issues - birth defects
What are the glycol ethers?  *  *

Glycol: any of a class of organic chemicals characterized by having separate two hydroxyl (-OH) groups, contribute to high water solubility, hygroscopicity and reactivity with many organic compounds, on usually linear and aliphatic carbon chain. The general formula is CnH2n(OH)2 or (CH2)n(OH)2.

Hazardous Decomposition Products: Carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide Source

 

What are glycol ethers:

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/glycolethers/are.htm
 

... a story about memory loss *  ... A memory loss causing chemical  *

2-Butoxy Ethanol is unquestionably Health Hazardous  *

Chemical formula ....

2-butoxyethanol  C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH 

This chemical is a commonly used glycol ether

 

How much glycol ether in Pine Sol? <5%
So I would classify it in the same category as Simple Green 
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which has <6% glycol ether: 2-butoxyethanol

Simple Green Exposure

http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/products/msds/#Pine-Sol

Apparently glycol ether is regulated under Sec 304 / CERCLA

http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/

So why didn't Clean Shower disclose it?

No Disclosure of any ingredients;

yet serious use of product on a written MSDS you can get in 10 days by mail

... which however, are not on the container. 2-9-09

Patent for Clean Shower says

Share about the harm of glycol ethers  *

More info on glycol ethers http://www.valdezlink.com/re/glycolethers/are.htm

EPA should require all glycol ether to be disclosed in products

 
Why can't all glycol ethers be disclosed in all products, even inert?

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/glycolbutylether/discloseall.htm
 

And most especially in all products used by the Military

and housewives in home cleaning products
 

Inerts: the secret pesticides.   Inerts are the ingredients in pesticides which do not have to be specified. EPA lists over 1400 of these including solvents, stabilisers, and preservatives.  Linguistic gymnastics allow tricky manouvres. Inerts include glycol ether, xylene, toluene, formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde.

NCAP - Internet:  http://www.efn.org/~ncap/ActiveInertsRel.htm  

71 different solvents were identified in 8,000 pesticides in 1993, (particularly xylene).  The solvent may explain the increases in the risks for leukemia and non-Hodgkins lymphoma in farmers

Petrelli G et al.  Solvents in PesticidesScand J Work Envir Health  19, 6, 1993

 

Results 1 - 10 of 10 for Sec 304 / CERCLA within the Search EPA laws, regulations, guidance, and dockets collection. All document formats are included.

[1] EPA Regulatory Plan and Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Fall 2006

EPA's Fall 2006 list of planned, proposed, final, withdrawn and completed regulatory actions that are coming up in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-fall2006-pt2.pd... (PDF)

[2] EPA Regulatory Plan and Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Fall 2006

EPA's Fall 2006 list of planned, proposed, final, withdrawn and completed regulatory actions that are coming up in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-fall2006.pdf (PDF)

[3] US EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Spring 2009

EPA's Spring 2009 Regulatory Agenda, which lists regulations and other major policy documents that are under development or review in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-spring09.pdf (PDF)

[4] Fall 2008 Regulatory Plan and Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

upcoming and recently completed EPA rules, though some rules are not found in this document

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-fall08.pdf (PDF)

[5] US EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Spring 2007

EPA's Spring 2007 regulatory agenda, which lists regulations and other major policy documents that are under development or review in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-spring07.pdf (PDF)

[6] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Plan and Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, Fall 2007

A compilation of the regulations and certain major policy documents that we reasonably expect to issue in proposed or final form during the upcoming fiscal year.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-fall07.pdf (PDF)

[7] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Plan and Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, Fall 2007

A compilation of the regulations and certain major policy documents that we reasonably expect to issue in proposed or final form during the upcoming fiscal year.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-fall07-pt2.pdf (PDF)

[8] US EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Spring 2008

EPA's Spring 2008 regulatory agenda, which lists regulations and other major policy documents that are under development or review in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-spring08.pdf (PDF)

[9] US EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Spring 2007

EPA's Spring 2007 regulatory agenda, which lists regulations and other major policy documents that are under development or review in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-spring07-pt3.pd... (PDF)

[10] US EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda - Spring 2007

EPA's Spring 2007 regulatory agenda, which lists regulations and other major policy documents that are under development or review in the next 12 months.

http://www.epa.gov/regulations/documents/regagendabook-spring07-pt2.pd... (PDF)

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Acute glycol ether poisoning looks like ‘the flu’
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/flu/swine/glycolether.htm

In a couple of years, researchers and doctors will be looking for the real cause of ‘the flu.’ But the multi-billion dollar flu vaccine industry will resist.

They will want to know why autoimmune issues and cancers are epidemic; Autism, as well: now 1 in 57 boys have Autism per one report and overall 1 in 91 (used to be 1 in 166)

Diabetes is a side effect !

We have to look at a ‘bigger picture’ to find the harm of glycol ether exposure: CFIDS, CFS, FM in general & the anemia that proves it is a glycol ether: acute AIHA

— Margaret Diann

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/america-takes-on-swine-flu/?apage=3#comments

 

Brain Tumors    *  * * not that rare

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