Dr Samuel Epstein, MD, D.Path., D.T.M&H, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center Chicago is an internationally recognised authority on the causes and prevention of cancer, and on carcinogenic exposures in air water, the work place and consumer products-food, household products and cosmetics and toiletries.

Dr Epstein has published 260 peer reviewed scientific articles and has authored 4 books

• "The politics of Cancer" 1978

• "The Politics of Cancer Revisited" (1998)

• "GOT (Genetically Engineered Milk) Milk!" The Monsanto Milk Wars Handbook

• "Unreasonable Risk" an expose of the cosmetics and personal care industry

Dr Epstein has also co-authored seven books, including

• "The Mutagenicity of Pesticides" (1971)
• "Drugs Of Abuse" (1971) Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards
• "The Legislation of Product Safety" (1974) Consumer Health and Product Hazards
• "Hazardous Wastes in America" (1982)
• "Cancer In Britain" (1983) The Politics of Prevention
• "The Safe Shoppers Bible" (1995)
• "The Breast Cancer Prevention Program" (1998).

Dr Epstein has contributed numerous articles and editorials and letters to leading national newspapers

Dr Epstein's past committee and society involvements include: chairman of the Air Pollution Control Association Committee on Biological Effects of Air Pollutants; President of the Society of Occupational and Environmental health; Founder and Secretary of the Environmental Mutagen Society; Advisor to a wide range of public interest, environmental, citizen activist and organised labour groups; Co-Chairman of the Commission for the Advancement of Public Interest Organisations (CAPIO); and President of the Rachel Carson Council, Inc.

Dr Epstein is currently Chairman of the nation-wide Cancer Prevention Coalition.

His activities in the interface between science and public policy include:

• Consultant to the US Senate Committee on Public Works;
• Drafting Congressional legislation; frequent invited Congressional testimony;
• Membership of key federal agency advisory committees including the Health Effects Advisory Committee of EPA, and the 1973 Department of Labour Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Occupational Carcinogens.
• He was the key expert involved in the banning of hazardous products and pesticides, including DDT, Aldrin and Chlordane.
• Dr Epstein is the leading international expert on the public health hazards of the biosynthetic bovine growth hormone (rBGH) used for increasing milk production, and of sex hormones used for fattening cattle in feedlots on which he consulted for the E.C., testified on their behalf at the January 1997 World Trade Organisation hearings and presented testimony to the EU Parliament in May 1997.

More recently Dr Epstein presented draft "Legislative Proposals for Reversing the Cancer Epidemic" to the Swedish Parliament in December 1998 and to the UK All Parliamentary Cancer Group in June 1999.

Dr Epstein's numerous honours include:

• Medals and prizes in the UK Royal Army Corp.;
• The British Empire Cancer Campaign (now the CRC) Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street and the Chester Beatty cancer Research Institute, London;
• The 1969 Society of Toxicology Achievement Award; the 1997 National Conservancy Award of the National Wildlife Federation; the 1981 Yale University Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Award;
• The 1989 Environmental Justice Award;
• The 1990 Rachel Carson Legacy Award, for "Significantly Advancing medical Research Into Effective Toxic Chemicals and Bringing His Knowledge Forcefully to World Attention"
• The 1998 Right Livelihood Award (The Alternative Nobel Prize) for International Contributions To Cancer Prevention
• The 1999 Bioneers Award
• The 1999 Project Censored Award (The Alternative Pulitzer prize for Investigative Journalism) for an article exposing the American Cancer Society

Dr Epstein is also a member of the National Writers Union, AFL-CIO and the National Association of Science Writers

Dr Epstein has extensive media experience involving numerous invited appearances on major TV networks including

• Sixty Minutes,
• Face The Nation,
• Meet The Press,
• McNeil/Lehrer,
• Donahue,
• Good Morning America,
• The Today Show.

He has also made frequent appearances on Canadian, European, Australian and Japanese TV.

Health-Report Comment

We applaud the sterling work Dr Samuel Epstein is doing in bringing public awareness to the insidious permeation of toxic chemicals into our everyday lives. Yet as I write this, even recognized manufacturers of so-called "safe" synthetic skin care products and cosmetics continue to use a wide array of questionable chemicals in their products. In particular parabens and dimethicone. Parabens in all their forms have been implicated with cancer for quite some time now yet virtually every manufacturer in the world, even some of the companies Doctor Epstein gives partial endorsement to at the time of writing, continue to use parabens in their products. Read more about the mounting evidence being gathered about this ubiquitous toxic chemical group collectively called parabens. The chemical assault on the human species continues unabated as new chemicals are brought onto the market on a daily basis.

Here at the health-report site we cannot condone the use of potentially toxic synthetic chemicals on the skin. It may be safer to eat the toxic chemicals rather than apply them to the skin. At least through the digestive system the body can produce specific enzymes to break down the toxic chemicals in the gut and excrete them. No such mechanism exists when chemicals are absorbed through the skin into the body. It is a well proven fact that chemicals applied to the skin are readily absorbed into the bloodstream where they can lodge in any part of the body or organ.

This is why parabens have a reputation for safety. For over fifty years they have been used in food as preservatives under the names sodium benzoate and benzoic acid. The body has effectively dealt with the toxic effects simply by producing an enzyme to destroy the chemical and then excrete it. Any research done on the safety of parabens has only been done on the toxic effects from ingestion of them, rather than on the toxic effects of regular topical application over large areas of the skin as many woman and men now do with deodorants and skin emollients.

I repeat my message. THE ONLY safe synthetic chemicals are the ones you are NOT exposed to. It is sheer madness to think continually rubbing a potentially toxic synthetic chemical, no matter how "safe" the chemicals supposedly are, into the skin on a regular basis will do the body no harm, let alone somehow do it good. The hype and lies the mainstream manufacturers sell their products on is beyond comprehension until you take into account the massive amounts of money they are making from an extremely gullible public. Many billions of dollars are being collectively sucked out of the unsuspecting pool of ever anxious consumers who want to change their image using these foreign substances.

Here at the Health-Report we can recommend ONLY ONE company as having genuine and legitimate Certified Organic skin care products and cosmetics. This means the products are TOTALLY FREE of all man made synthetic chemicals and made without the addition - yes you guessed it, of any synthetic  preservatives including parabens. Also for those of us that are concerned about how animals are subjected to countless experiments to determine the acute toxicity of ALL synthetic chemicals then this report on animal testing and cruelty free products may enlighten you somewhat. It is disturbing me to know many companies claim their particular brand of chemical soup is NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS yet independent scientists have already carried out the test in the past on every single one of the chemicals contained in their "safe" products.

Visit the link for more information about the USDA Certified Organic Skincare manufacturer and the non toxic products. When will we as a species learn to live in harmony with ourselves and our in environment?

Geoff Goldie www.health-report.co.uk

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