Health Headlines - June 13
Drizzle Curtains May Affect Health: Study
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) shower curtains and liners releasing into the air 108 toxic chemicals that can affect the lungs, medial nervous system, liver and kidney, according to a study by the Virginia-based Center for Vigour, Environment and Justice. It wants the federal government to recall and ban all PVC shower curtains and liners.
The researchers examined descend curtains and liners bought at retailers Bed Bath and Beyond, Kmart, Sears, Objective and Wal-Mart, the New York Daily News reported.
"The familiar 'new curtain get a whiff of' may be toxic to your health," said Mike Schade, the center's PVC crusade coordinator. "It's really surprising that retailers are manufacturing products that hold back and release harmful chemicals in our homes."
But a spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Sanctuary Commission dismissed the center's demand for a recall and ban of the products.
"There's no justification whatsoever for the medium to take any kind of action," Julie Vallese told the Daily Gossip. "The claims being made about the dangers of shower curtains are phantasmagorical. It's zany."
Consumers needn't be worried, said a New York pediatrician who specializes in environmental laying open. Dr. Joel Forman, an associate professor of community and preventive medicine at Mount Sinai Principles of Medicine, recommended airing out a new plastic curtain for a week before hanging it in the sprinkling.
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Infrared Sauna Rooms Pose Fire Hazard
About 225 Sauna By Airwall infrared sauna rooms are being recalled because the heating entity and fuse can fail, leading to overheating and risk of a fire, the U.S. Consumer Commodity Safety Commission said Thursday.
Sauna By Airwall Inc. of Bellflower, Calif. has received four reports of fires that resulted in fortune damage. There have been no reports of injuries.
The recalled sauna rooms involve the following model numbers: IC, I, IC II, IC III, IC IV, and IC V. The model number is found on the serial layer located on the back of the machine, in the lower right hand corner. The sauna rooms were sold nationwide from November 2006 from top to bottom April 2008 for between $600 and $4,000.
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