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If you need help in building your case for cleaner air in the workplace,
please visit EHN's page, Take Heart! (aka Access)
ehnhompg/takheart.htm

Remember: According to the US Dept. of the Interior, GREEN means:
"Must not contain petrochemical-derived fragrances."


• Scent Free, Chemical Free, "GREEN" housecleaner
  available for chemically sensitive clients only in the
  East Bay, Marin or San Fransisco.
  Please leave message for Ann at: (415)455-9676
  
  

• Jan's Site map
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/sitemap.html

• JAN's Web Site Portal for Employers
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/portals/private_er.htm

• JAN's Web Site Portal for Individuals
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/portals/individuals.htm

• Accommodating People with Fibromyalgia
  Excerpted: "Respiratory Difficulties:
  
  • Provide adjustable ventilation
    
  • Keep work environment free from dust, smoke, odor, and fumes
    
  • Implement a "fragrance-free" workplace policy and
    a "smoke free" building policy ... " [Emphasis added]
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/Fibro.html

• New Workplace Accommodation Challenges for the 21st Century
  Presented by
  Mandy J. Gamble, MS, CRC & Tracie D. Sabb, MS
  Human Factors Consultants; Job Accommodation Network
  A Service of U.S. DOL's Office of Disability Employment Policy
  This is a great page of information, but for those of us living with the disabiling effects of
  fragrance sensitization, use your Find Command to drop right to their section on
  Fragrance Sensitivity. These links will not open new pages. -- barb
  http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:gm5j_kCCFjkJ:janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc+EEOC+and+fragrance+accommodation&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

  or http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc

  or how I found it . . .
  http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:gm5j_kCCFjkJ:janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc+EEOC+and+fragrance+accommodation&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

• Worksite Accommodation Ideas for Individuals
  With Fragrance Sensitivity
  This link opens a new page. -- barb
  "... Over the past several years, JAN has provided information
  regarding fragrance sensitivity and accommodations in the
  workplace. There has been a steady increase in cases related to
  chemical sensitivity, environmental illness, allergy and respiratory
  impairments. JAN Consultants have found that fragrance sensitivity
  is the most prevalent issue related to these cases. A JAN case
  database search for the term fragrance resulted in a clear increase in cases
  since 1992; 37 cases between 1992-1995, and 567 between 1996-2000." [emphasis added]
  Translation: It costs money to not control the use of scented products in the workplace.
  And for the chemically injured, the costs are beyond calculation! -- barb
  "...An employer could choose to make a request that
  employees voluntarily refrain from wearing fragrances
  or the employer could go as far as creating a policy that
  requires employees to refrain. An employer has the right to
  decide how far is reasonable when implementing accommodations. ..."
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/fragrance.html

• Work-Site Accommodation Ideas for Individuals
  Who Experience Limitations Due to Chemical Sensitivity
  Environmental Illness (EI)
  "Basic Accommodation Considerations:
  
  • Provide air purification.
    
  • Provide additional rest breaks for the individual to step out for fresh air.
    
  • Create a smoke and fragrance-free work environment. ..." [Emphasis added]
    
  http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/MCS.html

• Allergies and Airborne Irritants
  http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?t=6932&p=~br,IHW|~st,3457|~r,WSIHW000|~b,*|&
• Contact and Chemical Allergy Chart
  On their chart, John Hopkins seems to only recognize "Contact dermatis" as a
  reaction to fragrances. What about asthma? What about sinusitis, migraines, ...?
  http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH?d=dmtJHE&c=20816&p=~br,IHW|~st,408|~r,WSIHW000|~b,*|

• Workplace Health
  While the title is intriguing, this section deals only with pregnancy and age discrimination.
  I guess those who are still gainfully employed, not pregnant and not "too old" don't have a right
  to breath air unpolluted by modern synthetic scents, pesticides and various other high-
  emitting VOC (volatile organic compound) products, for which there are ample alternatives.
  And even pregnant women could be forced to breathe air so polluted, basaed on the fact that an
  employer could point to that phrase, "recognized hazards." Yet another example of that axiom,
  Never Measure, Never Manage! -- barb
  "...Occupational Safety And Health Act
  "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to
  provide a workplace free from recognized hazards that cause, or are likely to cause,
  death or serious physical harm to pregnant women or their babies. It also gives
  employees information about dangerous chemicals and substances. State and
  municipal laws also allow employees and unions the right to ask for the names of
  chemicals and other substances used in the workplace. ..."
  http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/20813/32227/31481.html?d=dmtPreg

CSF - http://chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org/index.html

World Trade Center Health Registry
If you would like to receive information about placing your name on our registry,
please contact us:
   Chemical Sensitivity Foundation
   3 Larrabee Farm Road
   Brunswick, ME 04011
   207-725-8570
info@chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org

http://www.chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org/wtc-healthregistry.htm

Alison Johnson has written books and produced videos on Multiple chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
and on Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), and through her organization,The Chemical Sensitivity
Foundation, she has also turned her efforts to those who suffer lingering illnesses from the horrific
events of 9-11. Alison has done much to open the eyes of our Congressional leaders and
public to our illnesses. Support her work by purchasing her books and tapes and donating to her
organizations. You will be helping yourself and others when you do so. -- barb


• Chemical Sensitivity Foundation
  Alison Johnson, Chair
  http://www.chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org/

• Alison Johnson's info on MCS and GWS available through ConceptMed.com
  http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/

• On Saturday evening, June 29, 2002
  Alison wrote:
  
  C-Span 2 Book TV rebroadcast a program on Alison Johnson's book Gulf War
  Syndrome: Legacy of a Perfect War. The program aired at 11.35 P.M. EST (10:35 CST,
  9:35 MST, 8:35 PST). The program includes Johnson reading passages from her
  book as well as seven Gulf War veterans or their relatives reading their stories as they
  appear in Part II of her book. The program also includes brief clips from Johnson's video
  Gulf War Syndrome: Aftermath of a Toxic Battlefield. This program will probably be
  rebroadcast on a few succeeding weekends. Visit the website http://www.booktv.org
  on any Thursday to see listings for the following weekend. For information about
  ordering the book or video, see http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson.
  
  Note to the chemically sensitive: Because this program includes many references to
  chemical sensitivity or problems with pesticides, I think it is worth asking your family
  and friends to watch it because they may be more sympathetic to your problems when
  they hear Gulf War veterans describing their sensitivity to things like perfume.
  Diane Dulka, whose husband Joseph died of pancreatic cancer three years after the war,
  will read a passage describing how he spent 12 hours a day spraying lindane on
  Iraqi prisoners in a closed tent to delouse them. Another section she will read states:
  "Another thing that seemed unusual was that he had developed a strong sensitivity to
  odors. He just couldn't stand to smell things like perfume or pesticide or gasoline."
  Bobby Lawson's segment will include this passage: "I'm sensitive to a lot of chemicals
  now too. There's many times when I walk into a department store or a place like that,
  and I smell an odor and my body would just react. I have to leave right away
  because I start shaking and sweating." Pat Browning states during the program: "Since
  I've returned from the Gulf War I can't be around paint fumes; they make me really
  sick. Bleach also bothers me now, and I can no longer wear perfume."
  
  Two veterans with ALS (LouGehrig's disease) also describe pesticide exposures that they believe put them over the edge from Gulf War syndrome into ALS.
  
  
  
  
• Alison Johnson's Books & Videos
  
  • Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War
    This book provides information and discussion on the major toxic exposures of the quickly
    "won" Gulf War I. It takes the personal histories from 24 veterans and brings you into their lives
    they now must live. They continue to battle for their very lives, PLUS battle for recognition
    by our government . . . the very government they served.
    
    Time has passed and we have GW II with more service people ill and injured (which is not to take
    away from the memory of all of the people on both sides whose lives have been savagely taken).
    But, again, we have people who have served who are not being served. Same is true for our
    heros of 9-11. To anyone looking for help, I suggest that you read Alixon's books, view her videos,
    try to get them in your local libraries, see if you can influence your PBS station to air the
    videos, write your senators and representative. -- barb
    http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/gws/gwsbook.html

  • Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War
    Aftermath of a Toxic Battlefield -- video
    http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/gws/gwsfilm.html

  • [MCS] Casualties of Progress
    Personal Histories from the Chemically Sensitive
    Alison Johnson, Editor
    
    http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/casualties/casualties.html

    Note -- This book has an informative forward, numerous stories -- very personal
    accounts for anyone wanting the tears and smiles to flow -- and an afterword and
    8 appendices that are of utmost importance to read and share with whomever is
    important to you. You and they should have the information. Plus, you may wish
    to purchase a book for your doctor(s). Also, talk your library into purchasing copies!

    What you want is right there in Alison's book. I gain nothing from touting it, other
    than to know that you all will read something you won't be able to put down.
    And you'll likely see some aspect of yourselves in nearly every story.
    
    Check website for latest price info. -- barb
    
    MCS Information Exchange
    Alison Johnson
    3 Larrabee Farm Road
    Brunswick, ME 04011
    
    "Dr. Gunnar Heuser has written a foreword for the book.
    
    "Lynn Lawson, author of Staying Well in a Taxic World and editor of
    the newsletter of the Chicago MCS group, wrote this comment for
    the cover: "
    
    

    There are those who will dismiss Casualties of Progress as just a
    collection of anecdotes. But what anecdotes! So compelling that the
    book is next to impossible to put down, these chronicles of courage,
    caring, injustice, suffering, persistence, and triumph are told in such depth
    and with such honesty that their truth is unmistakable. They are truly tales
    to open eyes and hearts.

    
    
    Alison Johnson has produced several videos on MCS and GWS -- see the following or visit
    EHN's General Links, page V for information on Alison's and others. -- barb
    ehnlinx/v.htm#Videos

• The Chemical Sensitivity Foundation,
  Chemical Sensitivity Foundation
  3 Larrabee Farm Road
  Brunswick, ME 04011
  phone: 207-725-1155
  email: info@chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org
  http://chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org/
  
  
• MCS Treatment Information
  (Statistical Results of a Survey of the Experience of 351 MCS Patients with 160 Therapies)
  Order info for several booklets on this page. -- barb
  http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/mcs1/ordertreat.html
  
  
• Related Illnesses
  "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is closely related to Chronic Fatigue
  Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Syndrome (Gulf War Illness), and Sick Building
  Syndrome. Researchers D. Buchwald and D. Garrity did a study comparing 30
  patients diagnosed with MCS, 30 with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and 30 with
  Fibromyalgia. They concluded: 'Despite their different diagnostic labels, existing
  data, though limited, suggest that these illnesses may be similar, if not identical,
  conditions...in fact, the diagnosis assigned to patients with one of these illnesses may
  depend more on their chief complaint and the type of physician making the
  diagnosis than on the actual illness process.'"
  http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/mcs1/related.html

• Videos:
  http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/
  
  
  • Gulf War Syndrome - Aftermath of a Toxic Battlefield -- video
    78-minute video interviewing Gulf War veterans and MCS experts
    This is an excellent video, which grabs your attention from the opening moments and
    holds you captive and spell-bound to the very end. --barb
    http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/gws/gwsfilm.html
    Alison Johnson
    MCS Information Exchange
    3 Larrabee Farm Road
    Brunswick, Maine 04011.
    

  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, How Chemical Exposures May Be Affecting Your Health -- Vol I
    "Many patients interviewed in the video describe how their illness started with exposures
    in a Sick Building situation. The video also contains an 8-minute segment relating
    Gulf War Syndrome to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity."
    http://www.conceptmed.com/johnson/mcs1/mcs1.html
    
    
  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- Vol II
    Commentary by Three Expers:
    
    Claudia Miller, M.D., M.S.
    Nicholas Ashford, Ph.D., J.D.
    Iris Bell, M.D., Ph.D.
    
    70 Minutes
    http://www.conceptmed.com/johnson/mcs1/mcs2.html
    
    
  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- Vol III
    Commentary by Four Expers:
    
    Gerald Ross, M.D.
    Willaim Meggs, M.D., Ph.D.
    Gunnar Heuser, M.D., Ph.D.
    Will Pape, Business Executive
    
    82 Minutes
    http://www.conceptmed.com/johnson/mcs1/mcs3.html
    
    Alison tells us:
    
    These two new videos (Vol II and III) offer a serious discussion of MCS medical issues
    presented in 25 - 30 minute monologues. There are no 30-second sound bites here. The
    videos include virtually everything these experts said on the original video, plus most of
    the rest of what they said in the original filming session.
    
    
    Check website for ordering information. -- barb
    
    
    Alison Johnson
    MCS Information Exchange
    3 Larrabee Farm Road
    Brunswick, ME 04011
    
    
  -- end Alison Johnson info --

• AllerCare Products Recall
  
  Remember the adage: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Only YOU can do
  something about poisoning your body, your air and the water downstream: STOP buying
  products containing petrochemically derived fragrances until the flavors and fragrance industry
  and the FDA can show us that these products are safe for the user . . . and everyone who
  comes in contact with the user. I might add, if you clean well, keep the area dry, add lots of fresh air
  and sunshine to the mix, you don't have to rely on pesticides to control dustmites.
  
  Note: Links die. Try searching for "AllerCare Recall" if the links I've provided no longer work. -- barb
  • EPA: ALLERCARE PRODUCTS RECALLED DUE TO ASTHMA AND
    RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
    
    
    
    • Questions & Answers - AllerCareÅ Product Recall
      http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/citizens/allercareq_a.htm#1
      
      
      • Exposure Pathways - EPA's Emergency Response Program
        "... Air. When the hazardous substance takes the form of vapors or is absorbed by
        particulate matter (e.g., dust), the simple act of breathing can expose people to
        contamination. In some cases, a person's skin can absorb a hazardous substance in vapor
        form, although inhalation is considered the greater threat. ..."
        http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/er/hazsubs/pathways.htm
        
        
        
    • AllerCare Dust Mite Powder Recall
      Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America, Florida Chapter Inc.
      http://www.aafaflorida.org/recall_1_18_00.htm
      • AllerCareDust mite spray, powder recalled
        WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters)
        "S.C. Johnson said that it believed the fragrance of its dust mite spray and powder
        was to blame for the allergic reactions in consumers. "
        Reuters links active only very short time. -- barb
        http://www.reutershealth.com/eline/open/2000011421.html
        
        
        • ReutersHealth
          http://www.reutershealth.com/
          
          or see http://www.americanmedicalassociation.org/special/asthma/newsline/reuters/01177612.htm
          
          
        • TGSC Material Safety Data Sheet for BENZYL BENZOATE FCC --
          a fragrance ingredient in AllerCare
          The Good Scents Company
          http://www.hazard.com/msds/mf/gsc/files/md101390.html
        
        
        
      • AllerCareÅ Dust Mite Carpet Powder and Dust Mite Allergen Spray Recalled
        "Racine, WI (SafetyAlerts) - SC Johnson has today initiated a recall
        of AllerCareÅ Dust Mite Carpet Powder and AllerCareÅ Dust Mite
        Allergen Spray because some consumers, particularly those with
        severe allergies and asthma, have reported reactions related to the
        level of fragrance in the products. "
        http://www.recalls.net/recall/p/00/allercare.htm
      
      
      
    Poisonings Manual
    Dust mite products and asthma
    http://www.oshd.org/cdsum/99cdsum.htm

    
    
• EPA's AllerCare Recall Information
  • 1)ALLERCARE^TM PRODUCTS RECALLED DUE TO
    ASTHMA AND RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
    (Released by Press Office as Note to Correspondents 01/14/00)
    2)Questions & Answers AllerCare^TMProduct Recall
    http://web.utk.edu/~extepp/napiap/rnn/rnn1-14-20.htm

  • 1)SOME CONSUMERS REMAIN UNAWARE OF ALLERCARE^TM RECALL
    (Note to Correspondents 2/3/00)
    http://web.utk.edu/~extepp/napiap/rnn/2-03-00.htm

• The POISON to "stop" allergies causes allergic reactions
  ALLERCARE^TM PRODUCTS RECALLED DUE TO
  ASTHMA AND RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
  Just another "registered" POISON that does not do what it is supposed to!
  Safe2Use
  http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/00-01-15.htm
  • A little about Dust Mite Control Excerpt from Steve Tvedten's book "The Best Control"
    http://www.safe2use.com/pests/scabies/mites/dust-control.htm

Jokes? See Humor
ehnlinx/h.htm#Humor

JournalismNet
Search for the News - Journalism Search Engines
from http://journalismnet.com/news/

Julia Kendall? See Kendall
ehnhompg/kendall.htm

Junk Journalism/Junk Science

• Junk-science, Public Relations and Deliberate Disinformation
  Stewart Fist's Electric Words
  http://www.electric-words.com/junkscience/junkindex.html
  
  
• Not "Junk Science" but "Junk Journalism"
  By Albert Donnay, MCS R&R http://www.mcsrr.org
  ehnmcsrr.htm
  
  

"Justice delayed is justice denied." -- William Gladstone

Dept. of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/

WHERE, OH WHERE IS JUSTICE FOR THE DISABLED??????

• Employment
  "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination because of
  race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
  Period. What about people with disabilities? This misleading, incomplete, information is
  up on the DOJ's Kids Page
  http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/crt/emp.htm
  • REMINDER: HARASSMENT BASED ON DISABILITY IS WRONG, ILLEGAL
    US Dept of Education
    http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/07-2000/0726_2.html

  • Renewing the Commitment to Ensure that Federal Programs are
    Free from Disability-Based Discrimination
    http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/07-2000/wh-0726b.html

• Is it really "REASONABLE" to pollute the air for all with synthetic fragrances?
  "Use of fragrances is usually a matter of personal choice by individual employees,
  rather than a business or employment policy. In most circumstances, it would not be
  "reasonable" to require an employer to regulate such personal choices by its employees.
  John L. Wodatch, Chief Public Access Section; FEB 16 1995
  http://www.usdoj.gov:80/crt/foia/tal605.txt

• Service Dogs Invisible Disabilities
  Federal Laws and Regulations Governing Access
  http://www.sdid.net/laws.html

http://www.howdyneighbor.com/JusticeDenied/index.html


• Breast Implant Links
  http://www.howdyneighbor.com/JusticeDenied/page40.html

http://www.mailbot.com/justice/

EHN's homepage ehnindex.htm

Fabric Softeners = Health Risks From Dryer Exhaust and Treated Fabrics

Government WWW LINKS

The New Reactor

Twenty Most Common Chemicals Found in Thirty-One Fragrance Products