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Dear EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson,
Although there are many exposures that can harm us, the most
frequently used and thus the most harmful is the flu causing
chemical: glycol ether (such as 2-butoxyethanol which is found
half of the time when glycol ether is present). What is blamed
on a virus, should be blamed on glycol ether.
Not only should it not be sprayed through the air and dumped in
the oceans as is now being done with dispersants, but this
autoimmune causing, cancer causing, birth defect causing
chemical should be banned by Congress and not put in home
cleaning products, paint, dry cleaning, printing, or in any
other products. It should not be used at all. The price we and
our children and our pets pay, is not worth it. These chemicals
don't even have to be disclosed, just the 'how to use' warnings.
I believe the anemia it causes is the fatigue that doctors are
searching for in Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome,
CFS, FM. The odd assortment of symptoms are found in all war
eras and in the civilian populations now in equal proportions
(as the 'gulf war illness vets' found out). This chemical is an
organic solvent, a pesticide, a poison, a neurotoxin and a
teratogen.
Even the Presidents' doctors do not understand it. Pres FDR,
Pres Eisenhower & others show signs of this chemical's
poisoning. Cancers and autoimmune issues, and Autism and birth
defects are now epidemic with no end in sight.
I first looked into the harm of 2-butoxyethanol when our son
shared in 2001 that he was health damaged after working on the
Exxon Valdez oil spill 'bioremediation' experiment. Inipol was
10% of EGBE. He said he had a low red blood cell anemia and a
deep depression that Prozac didn't help, so after a year he quit
taking it. So I began looking into what this chemical did, and
have spent an inordinate amount of time (5 hours a day for the
first 5 years 2002 & on to the present). Although I have no
medical or chemical background, I have looked at the research of
others & do recognize the harm of 2-butoxyethanol. And I also
notice that I have various exposures.
Signs of exposure are also 'belly fat,' obesity, short term
memory loss, nice guy turned grouch, suicidal tendencies,
abnormal thinking, horrible headaches, in general improper
metabolism of calcium, iron, damage to liver, kidneys ... a host
of issues. I notice the fatigue signs in the late Senator
Robert Byrd, in Assoc. Justice Ruth Ginsburg, in General David
Petraeus. To help these a different view of health & the harm
of glycol ether is essential.
Per today's video of the well cap & leaking oil in the Gulf
(Admiral Thad Allen's Press Conference), the dispersant is still
added. Worse than the oil itself, is the use of dispersant
containing so much glycol ether (2-butoxyethanol at 30-60% of
Corexit). http://www.valdezlink.com/re/gulf/health/captdavereply.htm
Sincerely,
Margaret Diann Hursh |