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Chapter 18: Environmental Health Hazards and Human Health3. This article deals with a national issue
4. Many women have been getting chain emails about certain amounts of lead being in various types of cosmetics and that if you used these cosmetics you would get cancer. Most people believed that these emails were all lies and jokes. Although women do not have to worry about getting cancer they do have to worry about brain damage, nerve disorders, infertility, and other neurological concerns. It is because of these emails that the United States government decided to investigate cosmetics. The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics ran a series of tests and found that 61% of the 33-brand name lipsticks had detectable traces of lead and one of three of them exceeded the amount of lead that the FDA set as a ingestible limit. The FDA ran its own tests and found that the most popular lipsticks had the highest amounts of lead. Because of all this the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 was brought into congress in July. If passed as written, it would require manufacturers to disclose harmful ingredients in personal care products, and phase them out over time, while also creating an adequate safety standard and equipping the FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Colors with the funding necessary to step up inspections and oversight.
5. I think it is extremely important that the brands disclose how much lead and other harmful substances are in their product because the consumer should know what is going into the things that they are using. Especially lipstick, because lipstick is used on your mouth and there is the possibility of swallowing the product it is important to know that you are not bringing harmful substances directly into your body. It is also important because many young kids get their hands on lipstick and some even eat lipstick by accident and if they ingest a large amount of lead their bodies can be seriously harmed.
6. Carcinogen- any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer
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