The next time?
The next time you buy sanitary pads or tampons, check the labels and see whether you spot any of the familiar signs stated in this email. No wonde...
The next time you buy sanitary pads or tampons, check the labels 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 asbestos in tampons? Why
would they do this?
Because asbestos makes you bleed more, if you bleed more, you're going to
need to use more.
Why this isnt against the law since asbestos is so dangerous?
Because the powers that be, in all their wisdom (not), did not consider
tampons as being ingested, and therefore, didn't consider them illegal or
dangerous.
This month's Essence magazine has a small article about this and they
mention two 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 at Boulder sent the
following:
This is a hoax.
In the last six months, unfounded rumors on the Internet have suggested that U.S tampon manufacturers add asbestos to their products to promote excessive menstrual bleeding in order to sell more tampons. FDA has no evidence of asbestos in tampons or any reports regarding increased menstrual bleeding following tampon use.
Before any tampon is marketed in the U.S., FDA reviews its design and materials. Asbestos is not an ingredient in any U.S. brand of tampon, nor is it associated with the fibers used in making tampons. Moreover, tampon manufacturing sites are subject to inspection by FDA to assure that good manufacturing practices are being followed. Therefore, these inspections would likely identify any procedures that would expose tampons products to asbestos. If any tampon product was contaminated with asbestos, it would be as a result of tampering, which is a crime. Thus far, FDA has received no reports of tampering. Anyone having knowledge of tampon tampering is urged to notify FDA or a law enforcement officer.
Asbestos in Tampons
Netlore Archive: False email rumor claims brand-name tampons are purposely made with asbestos fibers ‘to make women bleed’
As I have all too frequently had occasion to observe in this pages, forwarded email is hardly the most reliable of information sources. There’s a corollary to that, namely that forwarded email is also an unreliable means of disseminating information. Our current specimen of Netlore illustrates the point.
An email alert began circulating in August 1998, authored by a source unkown, warning of an alleged health threat to women from residual dioxin deposited in tampon fibers as a result of chemical bleaching during manufacture. Some recipients suspected it of being a hoax, because it bore several of the usual markers — it was unsigned, it urged recipients to re-send it far and wide, and the information contained in it, if true, was frightening.
Take a look st this site if you have any questions:)
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa111898.htm
While the asbestos thing is probably untrue, disposable menstrual products have a LOT going against them.
For starters, tampons are drying to the vagina and increase risk of infection, not to mention that they are associated with Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Second, both pads and tampons are not e co-friendly in the least. It takes a tampon six months to degrade – the plastic applicators, significantly longer than that. Disposable pads take an indefinite amount of time to break down. Imagine all of that in landfills.
Third, I’ll believe that they do contain chemicals that cause you to bleed more. No, it isn’t confirmed, and if it’s true, I’m not saying it’s necessarily intentional on the part of the manufacturers. But, when I used disposable pads, I had a period about every thirty days. When I made the switch to reusable cloth pads, after a few months, I began having periods every FORTY-FIVE days – switching away from chemical-filled disposables added 15 blood-free days to my cycle! Then, because of certain matters, I went back to disposables for a while – at first it continued as a 45 day routine, but after a few months, it took only 40 days. If I continue to use disposables, it would probably eventually shorten to an average length of time.
um….whats with all the big freakin words!!!!!