Of course we all remember the article, a little while back now, about how: Dr Geoffrey Evens Suffers with MCS-like Symptoms with New Cars? Evens, the Research Scientist who bought a new car that set of his formaldehyde allergy he picked up while working in a laboratory for years. Well, the gist of this story is long-winded, something that's not going away fast, for many of … [Read more...] about Cars in Australia and the US: Is the New Car Smell Bad for your Health?
Chemical Regulation in Australia
New Rental and Throwing Stuff Out
Impulsively, I went online, looking for a rental, my mould-induced-scatterbrained thoughts: just a rolling tumbleweeds in the moment. The area I'm building in is made up of a hundred or so houses; the likelihood of finding a suitable rental there is made up of the odds: 1 to nothing. It took one year to find the rental I'm in now (on the opposite, busy end of town). And … [Read more...] about New Rental and Throwing Stuff Out
The Dose Makes the Poison?
Up on ISSUU is a free publication titled, Pesticides, Food and You: The Dose Makes the Poison?, produced by Friends of the Earth, here in Melbourne, Australia, and funded by The City of Yarra. Now, as some of you who already know (possibly from harsh experiences, yourself), the 'dose' of a chemical, allergen or irritant is not determined by the actual dosage. Rather, it's a … [Read more...] about The Dose Makes the Poison?