Because the chemical industry has hood-winked the USA.  They have hidden 2-butoxyethanol and 2-(2-butoxyethanol) * in products. They are not listed as ingredients. Sometimes the only way you can tell is by the hazard warnings. Possibly in gun cleaner, jet fuel, pesticide - listed as linear hydrocarbons - as a solvent (but they are also poisons / pesticides)  * I am a nobody in Valdez, Alaska who has found out what this chemical does, because I wanted to know what harmed the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers.   * Note that the government does know that the troops were exposed to these in Gulf War  * But they have not studied it!  There is a commonly held belief that they are not harmful, because they are in everyday household cleaning products.  They are no safer there; it just takes longer to get too much exposure is all.  * When the USA studies this chemical, they will learn the cause of Gulf War Syndrome, which is going on today.  * You do not have time to experiment with what is the problem; every day that goes by, more and more troops will be coming down with Too Much Exposure; and to date, harmful effects are not reversible. Demand that all companies disclose all ingredients. List all exposures troops have to 2-butoxyethanol and Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether.  Remove them from use. Educate the troops/doctors as to how the body reacts when it has had too much exposure to chemicals - any chemicals & especially these * What have the Gulf War Troops been diagnosed with?  * You should know also, that Staff Sgt James Alford is not an isolated incident and his diagnosis does not make sense. He was having symptoms BEFORE he went to Afghanistan. * This is how to test for the harm caused by this chemical. * The answer is in the blood; you need the best hematologists and endocrinologists to help  Please help Gulf War Vet Chad Pagel of Indiana - a VA institution is likely to harm him more if they keep on with the overmedicating he has had. *

Skin and eye membranes are  the main route of entry of this chemical; victims will note their eyes burning and watering; their urine turns dark with dead red blood cells; the exhaustion is immediate - but is it too late then?  For sure stop exposure

Chemical companies are the terrorists we should be concerned about.  They don't care about human life as long as they can earn money; they don't care how many people die, and they won't stand for any 'studies' they don't want to see, either.

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People don't take the warnings on home cleaning products seriously. What Should the Hazard warnings be on products?   Why not say instead that they will have damaged:  blood, liver, kidneys, skin, eyes, central nervous system including depression and short term memory loss, and suicidal tendencies; endocrine system (high blood pressure/high blood sugar/reproductive damage) and tell them, too, it doesn't take much exposure to cause this! The more exposure the sooner you die; and the more horrible the death.  Cancers very probable.  Children at risk for birth defects and leukemia and tumor of the brain.  Multiple existing health studies 'skewed' because the primary cause is not mentioned or known: 

       2-butoxyethanol poisoning

 

  Life is in the blood. You damage someone's blood and you damage their life. These chemicals should be banned by the Legislature. *  

No one else has the power to stop their harm.

 

 C₆H₁₄O₂/CH₃(CH₂)₂CH₂OCH₂CH₂OH 

NOTE:  Be careful of this family of chemical  

and Don't be re-exposed 

Margaret