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World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Wal-Mart enforces Chinese green rules

No cheating in Wal-Mart supply chain is emphasized at the company's China summit this week in Beijing, attended by the retail giant's more than 1,000 leading suppliers as well as Chinese government officials and non-government organizations. Wal-Mart president and CEO Lee Scott said: "I...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
More BPA-free bottles

I was debating with myself whether to post another bisphenol-A (BPA) story as it's getting to be too repetitive. Another study, this time from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reported that the estrogenic chemicals are found in urine samples and that they have a strong link...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-17-2008
Regulatory and sustainability in cosmetics

On the second day of the HBA cosmetic show in New York City as I attended some presentations on their third annual regulatory summit, the buzzwords that frequently circulated throughout the program were green, California, bisphenol-A, phthalates, REACH , consumer advocacy groups, organic, certification...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008
BPA is safe says FDA

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report last week Thursday stating that there is no health risk in the use of bisphenol-A in food containers for infants and adults. The FDA is still proposing more testing strategy to erase the uncertainties surrounding BPA's use in food contact...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008
Cleaner livestock waste

Residents near farms or livestock processing facilities will soon breathe a cleaner (and less smelly) sigh of relief. Bion Environmental Technologies said they now have a patent approval for their phosphorus removal process in livestock waste treatment. The company said excess nutrients from livestock...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Toxics in scented laundry, air fresheners?

More bad news for consumer products this in time in the laundry market (which has seen its big share of public advocates complaints) as well as air fresheners. A study from the University of Washington (UW) found that chemicals with potential toxicity or health hazards are being used in top selling laundry...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008
EPA to ban carbofuran pesticide

Then US Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it has identified risks associated with the pesticide carbofuran and is proceeding toward cancelling the pesticide's registration. "EPA has concluded that dietary, worker, and ecological risks are of concern for all uses of carbofuran...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
Cosmetic safety in question. Again.

No matter how safe or thoroughly tested cosmetic ingredients are, there's always one (or two or more) that will always be put into question. Just in time for the summer, the Environmental Working Group claimed that out of nearly 1,000 sunscreen products in the US market, four out of five offer inadequate...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008
EPA gets pesticide lawsuit

I wonder how many lawsuits the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gets each week? I just got this press release from the group Earthjustice, and they, among a coalition of farmworkers, public health, and environmental groups, filed a lawsuit today against the EPA to stop the use of organochlorine...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008

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