Health Effects
Urea Formaldehyde: This chemical is a known, and well documented, mutagenicity that causes cells to mutate. Many studies done on ToxNet were preformed on lab animals, primarily rats, and tumors were found to develop in these animals exposed to Urea formaldehyde. In animals that were subjugated to Urea formaldehyde through means of inhalation,the tumors appeared most on their noses.
Bleach: ToxNet proved bleach (hydrogen peroxide) to be a very strong carcinogen. Studies showed that health effects include cancer development in lab animals exposed to this chemical. Most methods of testing involved consumption of the chemical by lab animals (fish,rats,mice) but some were exposed via inhalation which is the method that most humans are exposed.
Hi Alex,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the testing methods. It's unfortunate that so many animals have to be tested on in order to find the outcomes of so many chemicals and toxins. It is even more sad, that even after we have sacrificed so many animals for testing, we CONTINUE to see these products on our shelves anyways! - Christina KH
My mom uses bleach often to clean and disinfect things around the house. After sharing with her the health effects bleach has, she will now reconsider using this product in order to reduce the exposure to her and our family. I have to say I think hearing "cancer" is what did it for her.
ReplyDeleteResponse: Christina
ReplyDeleteHow interesting that all three of us did the same two chemicals! Thank you for sharing my sympathy for the animals here - I think its in our nature as public health students to want to care for the health of animals as well. Its terrible what we do to them in the name of testing.
Response: Brianna
Way to go with spreading the knowledge of these chemicals and their adverse health effects with your family! My mom has been reluctant to accept some things I've shared with her from this class, and very accepting of others. For example I recently looked under her couch to see if it had a Bulliton 117 sticker (it did!) and when I tried to explain to her about why this was a bad thing - she shut me down pretty quick. I don't think she appreciated that she felt like I was suggesting she immediately buy a new couch haha!