A Common Exposure?  Yes, and why I think so

For the most part, unless you got a test immediately (which most people wouldn't) the chemical passes through your system ... not sure how long it is around, but it is like a tornado chemical. It comes and goes - but the devastation left behind. (IT is in some odd way listed as a pesticide, so that makes sense.) I think it is in jet fuel (Numbers 2-6 are also labeled as pesticides and have warnings similar to 2-butoxyethanol: defats the skin; keep out of the water)

I checked with Accu-Chem labs and they said they didn't have a test for 2-butoxyethanol. There may be one; however, they are very good with detecting other dangerous chemicals & can find in blood/urine. Dr Rea has info on chemical exposures & testing

The consortium of 8 chemical companies have lobbied EPA to remove 2-butoxyethanol from the list of harmful chemicals & now there are no restriction on how much companies can emit into the air (worst exposure) You will find it in complex from at 10% strong in Scrubbing Bubbles; it's in 409 Cleaner

Lysol Tub 'n Tile ETC

Dry cleaning and plastics business - ETC

Spot Shot Carpet cleaner brags about 25% being 2-butoxyethanol.  You don't find any warnings or product info on the can though


The Dept of Defense bought Corexit after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. That should be disposed of as a hazardous waste as it is 38% 2-butoxyethanol and won't stay in its barrels

There is a website that lets you look up what products contain it & its compound versions. Lots of household, automotive, carpentry solvents, hobby craft items, too. It is very prevalent

Why can't the USA find the real cause of gulf war syndrome?

Also I think Corexit was sitting in the Arms room (per one soldier's comments).

I suspect it is the Scuds/Patriot missiles in that war that put so much of the 'fumes in one's eyes'.  The bomb fumes in the eyes of the war areas of anyone in WWII would be an exposure & I suspect as the primary cause of obesity and diabetes 2 & brain tumors & leukemias being so prevalent these days

How prevalent is the harm of this chemical & compound versions??

How prevalent is CFS, CFIDS, FM????


Let me tell you about Conny

EGBE should be considered 

for OVERWHELMING FATIGUE

Will we have more 2-butoxyeathanol in the air?

Discuss

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