Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A flammable, potentially explosive, colorless liquid, C4H8O2, used as a solvent for fats, greases, and resins and in various products including paints, lacquers, glues, cosmetics, and fumigants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Any of a class of six-membered, saturated heterocycles having four carbon atoms and two oxygen atoms in the ring.
Etymologies
Examples
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The organization said it tested 48 products from 22 companies for 1,4-dioxane, which is used as a solvent in chemical manufacturing.
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Method, and other companies that produced green cleaning products were When testing around a hundred "cosmetic, personal care and household cleaning formulas, [the Association] found that nearly 50\% of them contained detectable levels of 1,4-dioxane, which is known to cause cancer in lab animals."
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The government hasn't banned the use of dioxane in baby products or cosmetics, even though they can seep through lotions into the skin.
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More than half of the baby products recently tested by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics were found to contain trace levels of formaldehyde and dioxane.
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The following ingredients contain formaldehyde, may release formaldehyde or may break down into formaldehyde: 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol, Diazolidinyl urea, DMDM hydantoin, Imidazolidinyl urea, Quaternium 15, 3 1,4 dioxane 3. PHTHALATES
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For 20 years, from 1966 to 1986, Gelman, Sciences Inc (now Pall Life Sciences) used a reported 800,000 pound of dioxane manufacturing high tech filters and allowed an unknown amount of the toxic substance to get into groundwater surrounding their property on Wagner Road.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Dioxane 1,4: Coming to Goundwater Near You.
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There are three carcinogenic ingredients in Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo, dioxane, formaldehyde and nitrosamine.
Samuel S. Epstein: Multiple Carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo
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Concerns on the cancer risks of talc, dioxane, formaldehyde, nitrosamine and ethylene oxide, besides other prohibited and restricted carcinogenic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, are not new.
Samuel S. Epstein: Multiple Carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo
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Johnson & Johnson has committed to "reducing or gradual phasing out" dioxane and formaldehyde in their U.S., but not in their international, products.
Samuel S. Epstein: Multiple Carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo
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And, as our tests for 1,4 dioxane have shown, the petroleum-based formulations of some mislabeled "organic" products can even produce hidden toxins that don't appear on the label.
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