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Key Hand Sanitizer Ingredient May Cause More Harm Than Good

Wenonah Hauter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Triclosan, Ed Markey, Environmental Protection Agency, Raul Grijalva, Lab Studies, US Consumers, Ciba, Epa, US Market, Betty McCollum, Fda, Green News
Wenonah Hauter

Our exposure to triclosan is so widespread that it lurks not only in our soap, but in our own bodies. Studies have found traces of it in urine, breast milk, and umbilical cord blood.

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The Chemical Marketplace: Triclosan

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waterways, Antibacterial, Chlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Dioxin, Pollution, Chemicals, Antifunal, And Rodenticide Act, Triclosan, Halocarbon, Health, Halogenated Hydrocarbon, Consumers, Antiviral, Toxic Substances Control Act, Chemical Pollution, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Ciba, Green News
Bill Chameides

I was reading my toothpaste tube the other day, and noticed something I hadn't expected in the list of "active ingredients:" the antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal chemical triclosan.

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