Here’s a good three minute PSA from Frederick Community College about going fragrance-free:
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More resources:
Fragrance chemical pollution is as harmful as smoke, and has serious short and long term impacts on health and productivity.
Fragrance in the workplace: what managers need to know by C De Vader (2009)
Journal of Management and Marketing Research
” It took decades for the workplace to acknowledge the dangers of smoking and to recognize the deadly effects of exposure to second-hand smoke. Once acknowledged, it was a few more years before the workplace became safe for workers from the dangers of second hand smoke. This paper suggests that fragrance is following the same trajectory”…
www.aabri.com/manuscripts/09244.pdf
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Presentation: Fragrance-Free Workplaces For Healthy Employees
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/stinky-job-fragrance-free-workplace-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/541111b978c90a3c38000346
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- Canadian Lung Association Pollution & Indoor air quality – Scents
- CDC Indoor Environmental Policy protects those with chemical sensitivities
- Dr. Anne C. Steinemann Resources: Fragrance-Free Policies, CDC Indoor Environmental Quality Policy, Leaders for Healthier Air, Air Freshener Fact Sheet, Green Clean Fact Sheet , Toxic Chemicals in Air Fresheners, Toxic Chemicals in Fragranced Laundry Products
- Fragrance Fact Sheet from the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health & Environment
- Fragrance free policies from around the world
- Fragrance What’s that smell?
- Health Care Without Harm on fragrance chemicals
- Physicians for Social Responsibility Fact sheet on fragrances Fact sheet from PSR on fragrances in consumer products and their impact on human health.
- Women’s Voices For The Earth Reports about fragrances and toxic chemicals in everyday products
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Sea Change: Chemical fragrances may prove hazardous to health
Concern grows about effects of untested and unrestricted ingredients in laundry and body products.
http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/07/sea-change-chemical-fragrances-may-prove-hazardous-to-health/
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Expert Panel Confirms that Fragrance Ingredient Can Cause Cancer
http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2014/08/expert-panel-confirms-fragrance-ingredient-can-cause-cancer
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The Addictive Power of Toxic Perfumes and Colognes
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/the-addictive-power-of-toxic-perfumes-and-colognes/
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Chemical exposure a bigger threat than climate change
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/chemical-exposure-a-bigger-threat-than-climate-change/5496060
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Prevention: Air of danger
“We’ve got to stop pouring this carcinogenic stuff out into the economy so that people don’t get cancer in the first place,”
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7502_supp/full/509S62a.html
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While fragrance chemicals aren’t the only source of indoor and outdoor air pollution, they are one of the easiest ones to address and eliminate.
You are a wealth of information. Thanks, the video certainly gets the point across. I hope people are open to listening, learning and changing. :D
You and I, and everyone else whose health is affected by breathing ;-)
Tweeted and Pinterested as usual! (There doesn’t seem to be a verb for putting things on Pinterest, and I’m not sure if “Pinterested” works. LOL.) Great info as always. :-)
Thanks! The more people who learn about this, the cleaner everyone’s air becomes :-)
And would “pinned” work for pinterest?
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Must see PSA (short) about Fragrance’s harmful effects
The video isn’t there anymore and I can’t find another copy. This is the link to the page it was on, maybe someone has the energy to see if the video is available elsewhere?
https://www.frederick.edu/events/fragrance-free-finals-week.aspx