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Is Your Soap Safe?

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    Author Paul Alexander discusses whether government product studies are a waste of taxpayer money.

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You don't want government to keep a safe protect the water we drink the air we breathe and so we use.

Great soap.

Well yes in the name of protecting us our government has studied the ingredients in these.

Anti bacterial soaps and these other products.

Under -- each -- has this chemicals called.

Try close and it kills germs.

Civil lots of products total toothpaste.

The bureaucrats are studying -- to make sure frank clothes and safe and effective.

And that's a good intentions so how they gone wrong.

Well they've been studying it now forget this forty years and he's still haven't made a decision.

Paulette and Paul Alexander wrote a book about fighting germs called pandemic the story if people vs -- -- So forty years -- that you know what.

While the product pleasant event and -- the white six days and and they are only seven days I started a review process.

And the FDA.

Decided that it would say if but they were not sure that it was -- -- And then the EPA is also involved in regulating the substance.

They decided it was effective but they weren't sure that was safe.

-- -- Lay out all go often do their research and submit that hey we -- -- for.

Our core to stand there is always some environmental group -- -- how well what it has not just the yeah that is gone on for so long that -- -- environmental groups came in.

And started protesting.

Claiming that this substance was harmful danger and -- potentially dangerous.

Now as always they have research to back this up they -- huge amounts progress ride and then.

That the rats you know sexual organs will grow.

To Juarez and testicles fairly large -- -- and the -- that it.

I don't give it to she'd been -- -- they estrogen level of she.

They'd they'd tend not to do story movement and studies on humans who -- actually using the product.

But -- has gone on for so long that I got involved in on where they're getting congress involved.

And the EPA scared people buy it labeling the chemical a pests somewhat centrist thing as a pesticide and he -- -- stuff.

Dessert after a -- -- -- and divide as -- -- -- kills bacteria that's why they call of the past it kills all right vast minority area APA.

Bacteria which is just adjournment of fancy word for germ.

That's considered a past.

So -- -- here if you kill -- past year are pesticides we have all these images of DDT and Johnson & Johnson stop using the product didn't because.

Well there's there's this and I don't have despite an extensive history of safe -- we want you to have peace of mind.

Well I mean that that may be what does that publicly or privately if you talk to them there's -- that you know business is based on being able to predict what's gonna happen in the future.

So what happens.

If -- EPA finally after forty years -- that FDI and finally after forty years.

Makes a decision and it goes against them.

So hedged in terms it is planning.

You know you know business planning -- makes sense to a -- after forty years.

They may never make a decision and and if they do -- decision and may not be in their favor.

And then that tragedy is that you know bid from what I can tell all that I read and talk to people about it's who you know that's the same product that you like you said it's in your two bags -- -- -- to send your dollar and seven year anti bacterial file your tax dollars and work for forty years say what do you call Alexander up next.

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