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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Info / News Items / Announcements => Topic started by: Satya on July 31, 2008, 03:17:39 am

Title: Foods, Body Care Products, & Supplements with Dangerous Nanoparticles
Post by: Satya on July 31, 2008, 03:17:39 am

I can't find the sunscreen thread now.  But I would definitely avoid them.  Nanoparticles are now in many products and foods (in the US at least). 

Here are a couple links.

http://www.ewg.org/node/21738
"These products include 27 sunscreens that specifically note the use of micronized or nano-scale zinc oxide or titanium dioxide (Table 2). Neither of these two sunscreen ingredients have been comprehensively reviewed for safety in their micronized or nano-scale form by FDA. The European Union's Scientific Committee on cosmetics denied approval for micronized zinc oxide as a sunscreen in 2003, citing a lack of data on skin absorption and inhalation, and studies showing the ingredient to be potentially toxic in the presence of light (SCCNFP 2003, SCCP 2005)."


http://www.organicconsumers.org/nanotech.cfm  - This link has many articles on nanotechnology in the clothes, personal care products and food.

Title: Re: Foods, Body Care Products, & Supplements with Dangerous Nanoparticles
Post by: xylothrill on July 31, 2008, 09:44:08 am

Ah she used "sunblock."  http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/health/what-do-you-use-for-sunblock/

Title: Re: Foods, Body Care Products, & Supplements with Dangerous Nanoparticles
Post by: akaikumo on July 31, 2008, 05:32:08 pm

Man, that's just really disturbing. We shouldn't have to get so educated on stuff to know what could be dangerous and what isn't. I'll have to read those.