Re: There's so much more I desire to hear...

Hi papillon :)

The aromatic amine test was a chemical marker for cancer causing dichlorobenzene dihydrochloride.

Chemicals Known to the State of California
to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity
Listed as of 25jan02

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD ASSESSMENT
SAFE DRINKING WATER AND TOXIC ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1986

p-Dichlorobenzene
106467
January 1, 1989

3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine dihydrochloride
612839
May 15, 1998
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/Chemicals-Known-CancerCA25jan02.htm
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Now for the next horror story.

Powdered zinc was used as a catalyst. The waste product was a zinc sludge that contained the cancer causing salts (the zinc was contaminated)

The zinc was shipped in gondola cars by railway to Revlon Cosmetics.
Revlon made lipstick out of this cheap contaminated zinc!
When reports started spreading about a sudden high rate of women having lip cancer, and most of them had one thing in common, they used Revlon Lipstick.

When Revlon was asked to reveal the ingredients for their lipstick. Revlon reported that they used zinc as a lipstick base just like all lipstick makers.

Revlon immediately stopped buying the cheap contaminated zinc sludge to make lipstick with.

When the chemical company could not sell the zinc anymore, we started using cheaper powdered lead as a catalyst for the carcenogenic salts, and the contaminated lead sludge was dumped in what was part of a wetlands santuary.
The company was fined for filling in part of the wetland.
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