The strangest thing happened to me today. Apparently, I called myself. Now, I’d really like to know what I wanted to say but I hung up before I answered. Sounds like a joke, heh? Its not. Today, I was home and my phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and it said MY NAME and MY HOME NUMBER. Did I mention I was home (the home with ONE phone line)? What the?  So now I’m trying to relax a bit and open myself up to whatever message is apparently trying to get through to me…so much so that I had to call myself to get the point across. lol.Â
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
Now this you won’t believe!
Chemical agency ties under review. A firm with industry connections is removed from overseeing a federal evaluation on the safety of bisphenol A.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has begun a review of ties between a federal health center that evaluates the risks of chemicals to reproductive health and a consulting firm funded by companies that produce chemicals linked to reproductive disorders.
The investigation follows a Times report on Sunday that Sciences International, an Alexandria, Va., firm funded by more than 50 industrial companies, helps manage the federal Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction.
Among the firms with financial ties to Sciences International are two that produce bisphenol A, a chemical in polycarbonate plastic bottles that has been linked in animal testing to prostate and breast cancer and reduced fertility.
Since 1998, Sciences International has helped manage the federal reproductive health center and prepared draft reports analyzing bisphenol A and 16 other chemicals. The company has a $5-million contract with the center.
The center’s scientific advisory panel was scheduled to decide today whether bisphenol A endangers reproductive health in humans.
But on Tuesday, director Michael Shelby announced that the panel, after two days of reviewing the 372-page report that Sciences International prepared on bisphenol A, known as BPA, still had too many unresolved questions and was postponing its decision for six weeks.
Continue reading ‘More on Bisphenol A and NOW A Conflict of Interest’
Bisphenol A is rearing its ugly head again. That same chemical at the heart of the Toxic Toy law in California, that toy manufacturers and stores are fighting so strongly against being banned in baby bottles.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-11/117315996466490.xml&coll=1
My almost 5 year old just asked me if he could have suction cups so that he can climb the walls. I told him that I wasn’t sure where to buy such a thing. He replied, “Well, at the Suction Cup Store, of course”. : )
Ebay is now considering the sale of used cloth diapers as if they were exactly like used adult underwear which is a violation of their policies. And so they are randomly deleting auctions selling used cloth dipes. I know this will be a travesty to many moms looking to buy cloth diapers on Ebay, so please do use your voice.Â
You can sign the petition here;
http://www.petitiononline.com/clothdpr/petition.html
You can also check out the thread here on the same topic;
http://hyenacart.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=27249&highlight=ebay+ban
And here’s the link to Ebay to send YOUR suggestion about their ridiculous policy;
http://pages.ebay.com/help/newtoebay/suggest.html
Terressentials is a brand that I haven’t tried yet but has been on my radar for a number of years now. I keep emailing them pleading with them to start an affiliate program. ; )Â
 If toxic chemicals in your personal care are of a concern to you, THIS looks like the brand to try and it comes highly recommended by many HP mamas. Today I stumbled upon a site offering some of the shampoo on clearance so its a good way to check it out.Â
http://www.thegreenloop.com/TerrEssentials_Organic_Hair_Wash_p/te-hairwash.htm