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How To Eliminate Toxic Ingredients & Products From Your Life Ft. Ken Cook, President Of The Environmental Working Group AKA EWG

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The FDA's Ban on 30 Ingredients in Cosmetics in the USA

There's no pre market testing required of any ingredient on the part of the government before you formulate a personal care product. The basic regulatory review is conducted by a group called cosmetic ingredient review that is funded by and located in the trade association for the personal care products industry. FDA didn't even have the authority to do that on the books until the end of last year. This is not a regulated industry. Same with cleaning products. You can put almost anything in a cleaning product. Most of the food additives that you see that are allowed now, some of the colorants and the flavorings. In many cases, those are on the market because the industry has asserted without FDA doing a careful review

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