Bill and Sylvia Shirley on sat 20 nov 99
Hello everybody,
There's a piece in today's newspaper about an environmental group which
filed suit, alleging the zinc oxide contained in medicated baby powders
is contaminated with lead. It's an Associated Press article, out of San
Francisco. The group is the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland.
The article did not say how much lead was in the powder, but did say
that California law requires warning labels if exposure is over 0.5
micrograms per day. It said that one diaper change would expose a baby
to more than that. Most babies get changed several times each day.
Anyway, after spending the afternoon mixing three glazes which contain
Zinc Oxide, I wondered about it. I try to make every effort to avoid
all the nastys in glaze materials. Surprise! How do we find out what's
hiding in our Zinc Oxide? Or anything else for that matter.
Does anybody think this is worthy of worry?
Sylvia
Louis H.. Katz on sun 21 nov 99
Hi
No News to me. My understanding which could be a mis understanding is that
they occur together in nature and are hard to separate completely in
smelting and refining. Our first child who was done in clothdiaper, no
creams, just water, no wipes, etc NEVER! had a rash until we switched to
disposables. Our second, heavy on the disposables is proving to be more
problematic; duh...
Anyhow, my friends in Thailand where they use no diapers, just clean up the
mess don't seem to know what I am talking about if I mention diaper rash.
I for one am not big on creams, lotions, shampoos, soaps, or anything else
with ingredients that don't sound like something we have been smearing on
our bodies for thousands of years, arm pits included.
While on the subject, I found it sickly appropriate when I read an MSDS on
Strontium Carbonate and found it contained a small amount of Barium
Carbonate.
Louis
lkatz@falcon.tamucc.edu
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