FDA Warns of Risk in Antibacterial Additive, Common Ingredient in Soaps, Body Washes, Toothpastes, and Cosmetics

The agency advised consumers that the ingredient poses no apparent danger to humans, but that soaps and body washes with triclosan may not provide additional health benefits over soaps without the additive; consumers concerned about its potential health hazards should switch to regular soaps without triclosan.

My poor mother thought she was doing best for all these years... She's facing surgery on her thyroid this year.

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GOZO - I was going to say the same thing...I thought they were supposed to test this kind of thing before it is mass produced, bought, and used by millions.

Chemicals, chemicals, chemicals....when will it end? Soap and water, soap and water.....we are at the mercy of these drug companies. They are killing us.

Back in the day.......... when I was in HS and the Navy (during the Civil War), the FDA launched a cancer scare campaign against canned cranberry sauce. It was eventually determined that if we ate at least 20 cans per day for 20 years, we would subject ourselves to 'possible' cancer. Then there was the campaign against eggs, and against real butter, and etc, etc, etc. Every year, we get a negative report about something that will eventually kill us, and usually we die of old age before whatever was going to kill us is successful. Or.... the FDA comes up with a new study conducted in Somalia or Iceland or Nigeria, that refutes all previous scientific data, and then we have to look for other ways to kill ourselves besides eating something toxic.....like Chinese dog food.

I'm still trying to determine if "CANOLA" is really filtered and reprocessed used diesel engine oil from Canada, like I heard several years ago. I still eat eggs, drink beer, smash my own cranberries once a year, and haven't yet tried Canola products or marijuana. Maybe I should before the next general election, like everyone else did last time!!!!

I am a registered nurse of 32 years and I do not use any of these types of items. I use hot water and soap. I don't trust any "antibacterial" item and I believe that we get carried away with these products. I believe that the over use of these products gives us a false sense of security that things are clean and safe to use when this may not be true. At work I use soap and water and wear gloves. At home I use bleach. Bacteria, like it or not, is a part of life and it is everywhere. Our main problem is the overuse of antibiotics. This is the reason we are in the mess we are in now where we have superbugs and nothing to kill them. Because we have overused antibiotics for so many years. Bacteria have mutated and now require stronger and stronger antibiotics to kill them, if they can be killed at all. Hand sanitizers are not going to help you if you get a superbug.