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Product Labelling and Banning Carcinogens Paul Malouf - Vive Le Canada \|\| April 05, 2006 Related - Study find pollutants in Canadian blood samples I am forwarding a letter because of my concern for my health, the health of my 2 godchildren Chloe and Bianca, and the health of all Canadians. This letter was inspired by a CBC Marketplace television show co-hosted by Wendy Mesley in March 2006 entilted, "Chasing the Cancer Answer". http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/index.html I hope that Health Canada, in association with the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society do the right thing and intitiate/support legislation that would ban carcinogens in our consumer product supply. There are too many products that are killing us. Safe and healthy products should be a Canadian right! Manufacturers of consumer products will continue to make profits but not at the expense of our health. The statistics, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, are mind blowing: In Canada, 1 in 2.3 men and 1 in 2.6 women will have cancer in their lifetime. In Canada, about 14 million kilograms of carcinogens are released into the environment every year. Moreover, over the next 30 years, the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control estimates: Almost 6 million Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer. About 3 million will die from cancer. Direct cancer healthcare costs will be more than $176 billion. Over $248 billion in tax revenues will be lost because of disability due to cancer. There is a cancer in society that causes the cancer in our bodies! The biggest con game in Canadian history has been perpetrated. It is the most egrecious of evils. It is literally killing us. How many heavy metals, pesticides and other toxic chemicals are in our blood? Why are Canadians being treated like rats in a cage? Why are Canadians being treated like guinea pigs? The pharmaceutical, food, pharmacy, fast food, beauty, plastic and garden industries have each contrived by looking the other way. Elected politicians, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society have failed in their duty to protect the people. Each has acted in a horrific manner that allows dangerous chemicals into our consumer products. For industry stakeholders it is just the easiest way to make a buck. For Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society it is a malaise that must be extinguished. Prevention is the key. We must reflect on: Elected politians and Health Canada have not protected citizens from the carcinogens in the product supply. Food, cosmetics, garden, and cleaning products contain many cancerous ingredients. Why have they not been banned from the supply chain. Hundreds have already banned in Europe. Why have we not been protected? Canadians are loosing faith in the accountability and transparency of Health Canada as well as the entire health system. Has the cancer industry hijacked the agenda of our health system? The Canadian Medical Association role as protector has been upsurped. Where is their voice? Why have we not heard from doctors, the Canadian Nurses Association, the Canadian Pharmacists Association and the Canadian Healthcare Association? How many Canadians will have to die before these medical professionals act? The Canadian Cancer Society must revisit the allocation of their focus. In 2005, the CSC had revenues of $150,718,000. Expenditures included only $8,712,000 on prevention but $42,311,000 on research and $50,304,000 on support activities that include fundraising and management/general. Resources are spent on promoting ineffective drugs for terminal disease. Prevention was only 5.8% of total revenues. Cancer prevention programs be placed on an equal budgetary footing with all its other programs combined. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com and industry stakeholders: The pharmaceutical industry are driven by profits. The pipelines of cancer drugs are welcome. We need these companies and the research. But we should not have been placed in this cancer predicament in the first place. Other issues remain: First, the overprescription of medication by doctors is troublesome. Second, secondhand drugs (like second hand smoke) through our water supply must be addressed. Third, the carcinogenic risks of prescription drugs are not emphasized by healthcare professionals. The food industry is killing us. Pesticides and toxins in our food supply should be eliminated. For example, retailers like Loblaws, Provigo, Metro, IGA etc must act! Manufacturers including McCain's, Kellogg, Nestlé and Kraft must act! The lobby group, the Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers of Canada must change their ways. Fortunately, the Canadian government has banned rBGH milk. The beef, chicken and pork industry inject animals with growth hormones and antibiotics. The European Economic Community has banned hormone-raised meat because of questions of the dangers of meat that has been treated with synthetic sex hormones. Already, more than 60% of the foods on our grocery store shelves contains genetically modified ingredients from infant formula to corn chips. None of these foods have been safety tested on humans, and none are labeled. The pharmacy industry is killing us. Carcinogen chemicals and toxins should be eliminated in our cleaning products. For example, Pharmaprix, Uniprix, Jean Coutu, and Shoppers Drug Mart must act. The Canadian Pharmacists Association must revisit the product ingredients it peddals to the public. The fast food industry is killing us. Obesity is an epidemic. But other issues remain. The fast food industry must make their product healthier. For example, acrylamide must be eliminated from french fries, patato chips and cereals etc. The beauty industry is killing us. Carcinogens chemicals in our cosmetics and toileteries must be eliminated. The lobby group, the Cosmetics Toiletry and Fragrance Association must change their ways. In Europe, regulators have told the industry it can’t use some 400 chemicals - including suspected carcinogens. And they’re about to ban more. The U.S. and Canada ban only a handful. On the positive side, L'Oreal has discontinued use of questionable toxins. Why can not others follow? The plastic industry must ban harmfull chemical in our plastics. The escalating incidence of cancer cannot be explained away by smoking, but is due to avoidable exposures to a multiplicity of environmental carcinogens. While lung cancer rates have declined steadily, rates for a wide range of cancers unrelated to smoking have increased sharply. Nor can the escalating incidence of cancer can be explained away by the scientific proof argument, as industry lobbyist claim. The multitude of toxins and carcinogens, and the multitude of permutations and combinations of the interaction of these input, makes the latter argument virtually impossible to proove. The cumulative effect is real. The interaction effect is real. The multitude of carcinogen inputs in our consumer products, that invade our home environment and thus accumulate in our bodies, have increased cancer rates. Elected politicians, Health Canada, the medical profession and the Canadian Cancer Society must refute the justifications by industry stakeholders. Health Canada, the medical profession, and the CSC must end its corrupting dependency on special interest soft-money financial contributions. Real changes must occur: Consumers have the basic right-to-know, through explicit labeling, of known chemicals in consumer products. Patients have the basic right-to-be-informed by their health care professionals of the carcinogenic risks of prescription drugs. Provincial and local governments must utilize public databases to inform local citizens about carcinogenic hazards posed by chemical industries in their communities. Do the right thing: Eliminate the use of toxic chemicals. Make industry accountable for chemicals it produces. Regulate chemicals in consumer products through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. Focus on reducing pollution in the Great Lakes basin. The Canadian government must do the right thing: Eliminate the use of toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Cancer odds like 1 of 2 means either you or you're wife! It means one of your two children! Be well. Paul Malouf PS: I am just a private citizen and belong to no organization. I have no conflict of interest. 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Paul Malouf - Vive Le Canada || April 05, 2006

Related - Study find pollutants in Canadian blood samples

I am forwarding a letter because of my concern for my health, the health of my 2 godchildren Chloe and Bianca, and the health of all Canadians.

This letter was inspired by a CBC Marketplace television show co-hosted by Wendy Mesley in March 2006 entilted, "Chasing the Cancer Answer".

http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/index.html

I hope that Health Canada, in association with the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society do the right thing and intitiate/support legislation that would ban carcinogens in our consumer product supply. There are too many products that are killing us. Safe and healthy products should be a Canadian right! Manufacturers of consumer products will continue to make profits but not at the expense of our health.

The statistics, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, are mind blowing:
In Canada, 1 in 2.3 men and 1 in 2.6 women will have cancer in their lifetime.
In Canada, about 14 million kilograms of carcinogens are released into the environment every year.

Moreover, over the next 30 years, the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control estimates:
Almost 6 million Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer.
About 3 million will die from cancer.
Direct cancer healthcare costs will be more than $176 billion.
Over $248 billion in tax revenues will be lost because of disability due to cancer.

There is a cancer in society that causes the cancer in our bodies! The biggest con game in Canadian history has been perpetrated. It is the most egrecious of evils. It is literally killing us. How many heavy metals, pesticides and other toxic chemicals are in our blood? Why are Canadians being treated like rats in a cage? Why are Canadians being treated like guinea pigs?

The pharmaceutical, food, pharmacy, fast food, beauty, plastic and garden industries have each contrived by looking the other way. Elected politicians, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society have failed in their duty to protect the people. Each has acted in a horrific manner that allows dangerous chemicals into our consumer products. For industry stakeholders it is just the easiest way to make a buck. For Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, and the Canadian Cancer Society it is a malaise that must be extinguished. Prevention is the key.

We must reflect on:

Elected politians and Health Canada have not protected citizens from the carcinogens in the product supply. Food, cosmetics, garden, and cleaning products contain many cancerous ingredients. Why have they not been banned from the supply chain. Hundreds have already banned in Europe. Why have we not been protected? Canadians are loosing faith in the accountability and transparency of Health Canada as well as the entire health system. Has the cancer industry hijacked the agenda of our health system?

The Canadian Medical Association role as protector has been upsurped. Where is their voice? Why have we not heard from doctors, the Canadian Nurses Association, the Canadian Pharmacists Association and the Canadian Healthcare Association? How many Canadians will have to die before these medical professionals act?

The Canadian Cancer Society must revisit the allocation of their focus. In 2005, the CSC had revenues of $150,718,000. Expenditures included only $8,712,000 on prevention but $42,311,000 on research and $50,304,000 on support activities that include fundraising and management/general. Resources are spent on promoting ineffective drugs for terminal disease. Prevention was only 5.8% of total revenues. Cancer prevention programs be placed on an equal budgetary footing with all its other programs combined.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

and industry stakeholders:

The pharmaceutical industry are driven by profits. The pipelines of cancer drugs are welcome. We need these companies and the research. But we should not have been placed in this cancer predicament in the first place. Other issues remain: First, the overprescription of medication by doctors is troublesome. Second, secondhand drugs (like second hand smoke) through our water supply must be addressed. Third, the carcinogenic risks of prescription drugs are not emphasized by healthcare professionals.

The food industry is killing us. Pesticides and toxins in our food supply should be eliminated. For example, retailers like Loblaws, Provigo, Metro, IGA etc must act! Manufacturers including McCain's, Kellogg, Nestlé and Kraft must act! The lobby group, the Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers of Canada must change their ways. Fortunately, the Canadian government has banned rBGH milk.

The beef, chicken and pork industry inject animals with growth hormones and antibiotics. The European Economic Community has banned hormone-raised meat because of questions of the dangers of meat that has been treated with synthetic sex hormones.

Already, more than 60% of the foods on our grocery store shelves contains genetically modified ingredients from infant formula to corn chips. None of these foods have been safety tested on humans, and none are labeled.

The pharmacy industry is killing us. Carcinogen chemicals and toxins should be eliminated in our cleaning products. For example, Pharmaprix, Uniprix, Jean Coutu, and Shoppers Drug Mart must act. The Canadian Pharmacists Association must revisit the product ingredients it peddals to the public.

The fast food industry is killing us. Obesity is an epidemic. But other issues remain. The fast food industry must make their product healthier. For example, acrylamide must be eliminated from french fries, patato chips and cereals etc.

The beauty industry is killing us. Carcinogens chemicals in our cosmetics and toileteries must be eliminated. The lobby group, the Cosmetics Toiletry and Fragrance Association must change their ways. In Europe, regulators have told the industry it can’t use some 400 chemicals - including suspected carcinogens. And they’re about to ban more. The U.S. and Canada ban only a handful. On the positive side, L'Oreal has discontinued use of questionable toxins. Why can not others follow?

The plastic industry must ban harmfull chemical in our plastics.

The escalating incidence of cancer cannot be explained away by smoking, but is due to avoidable exposures to a multiplicity of environmental carcinogens. While lung cancer rates have declined steadily, rates for a wide range of cancers unrelated to smoking have increased sharply. Nor can the escalating incidence of cancer can be explained away by the scientific proof argument, as industry lobbyist claim. The multitude of toxins and carcinogens, and the multitude of permutations and combinations of the interaction of these input, makes the latter argument virtually impossible to proove. The cumulative effect is real. The interaction effect is real. The multitude of carcinogen inputs in our consumer products, that invade our home environment and thus accumulate in our bodies, have increased cancer rates.

Elected politicians, Health Canada, the medical profession and the Canadian Cancer Society must refute the justifications by industry stakeholders. Health Canada, the medical profession, and the CSC must end its corrupting dependency on special interest soft-money financial contributions.

Real changes must occur:
Consumers have the basic right-to-know, through explicit labeling, of known chemicals in consumer products.
Patients have the basic right-to-be-informed by their health care professionals of the carcinogenic risks of prescription drugs.
Provincial and local governments must utilize public databases to inform local citizens about carcinogenic hazards posed by chemical industries in their communities.

Do the right thing:
Eliminate the use of toxic chemicals.
Make industry accountable for chemicals it produces.
Regulate chemicals in consumer products through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Focus on reducing pollution in the Great Lakes basin.

The Canadian government must do the right thing: Eliminate the use of toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Cancer odds like 1 of 2 means either you or you're wife! It means one of your two children!

Be well.

Paul Malouf

PS: I am just a private citizen and belong to no organization. I have no conflict of interest.