Alternatives
Alternative 1: Stop consumption of products that contain microbeads.
If we stop using products that contain microbeads, we cut off a large source of microbeads spreading to our environment. However, the microbead problem is not known by the majority of the people. Informing our public is the first step to apply in this solution. It can be achieved by running informational ads through media (Television, Radio, Internet, Newspaper, etc.). Furthermore, several multinational companies have agreed to stop use or sale of microbead products. Their effort is applauded but it is not enough, awareness needs to be raised. Funding from the multinational companies allocated to an effort to raise awareness is part of the solution, which it has
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The law bans microbeads from “rinse-off-cosmetics”, which include toothpaste and health care products. However, there are exemptions for products such as prescription medication, for which synthetic microbeads are essential ingredients. There should be no exemptions and ban complete use of the microbead in products. …show more content…
They are respectively are manufacturers, environment protectors, and government. There are both good outcomes and bad outcomes for each interest group. First for manufacturers, stopping consumption of products that contain microbeads benefits manufacturers from not being imposed fines from government. However, the bad outcome would be losing revenue. Since some of manufacturers still have microbead products inventory, they would suffer a loss if not selling these products. Second for environmental protectors, they would be happy to see no more consumptions of products that contain microbeads. And no more microbeads pollutant will go into the sea, soil and etc. Although there will be less and less microbeads products, environmental protectors still need to work on preventing the use of microbeads from those who ignore the law. Third for the government, it no more needs to spend too much time and efforts on prevention of the use of microbeads. However, as a result of no more consumption of microbeads products, government may face a loss from tax because manufacturers have a loss from elimination of microbeads product
Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Nathan Rosillo, a key product developer at Chem-Tech Corporation finds himself in the middle of an exceedingly complex ethical dilemma (Pg. 156). He is the moral agent (Pg. 156) of the company who needs to decide if he wants to protect his beloved Dutch Valley River from the waste materials that can be dumped into it after the loosened requirements of the regulatory agencies. The new lubricant product developed by Nathan and his team is seen by his company supervisor and plant manager as key to reviving the financial fortunes of a cash strapped Chem-Tech. The cost savings arising from less need to reduce and recycle the waste from the new product seem to resonate well with the management’s profit-maximizing view (Pg. 167), and also allow them to stay in compliance with the loosened environmental standards. Nathan has the following 3 choices:
“Impure Science” proves definitively how consumers, armed with thorough knowledge, can influence public health policy, budget funding, and even academic research toward their own goals in combating the diseases that threaten their lives.
The main theme of the book is that we expose ourselves to dangerous chemicals from using common household products for cleaning and hygienic products. However, the real danger of using these chemicals is that most of our society doesn’t know the potential health effects and outcomes one is facing. Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviors. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially can affect our health.(World Health Organization). The theme of the book is relevant to environmental health because the authors are assessing their exposure to these dangerous chemicals that are found in the products that we use to continue with our daily lives. They publish their results and find that phthalates, PFOA and PCBs are both dangerous to human health and the environment.
NAN, a product made by Nestle is infant food formula that was marketed in third world developing countries where it is proven the water to be unsafe. Nestle, without being affected, aggressively marketed the dry baby formula to new mothers for the sole purposes of making a profit, without any regard to humanity. Companies earn profits on high priced products or services and then sell it at a higher cost than what it took to make. In order to use the infant formula, because it is a dry based product, water must be added. Continuing issues that developing countries encounter involves contaminated and unsafe drinking water. The baby formula was given to the labor and delivery wards of the hospitals where the babies were born. The babies were fed via bottles using the product from Nestle, versus being breast fed. Naturally, the babies grew to enjoy the flavor and mother’s enjoyed the new way of feeding, providing a new found freedom. Unfortunately, upon leaving the hospital, the mothers were not able to feed their babies for much longer due to not being able to afford to purchase the product. The product was sold at nearly half the cost of what a family could actually afford. In addition, to the high cost of the product, the water being used (outside the hospital) wasn’t safe. Babies were not gaining weight; they were losing weight, and becoming extremely
Wiener, R. Constance, Richard J. Crout, and Michael A. Wiener. "Toothpaste use by children, oral
...ate, this was deemed by the European Union to be “dangerous to the environment.” It produces super weeds that require higher toxic chemicals, deplete soil quality, and affect wildlife along with non-pest population. Even though these studies were made of glyphosate, bio tech companies were still claiming that their product was “biodegradable”, “safe with low toxicity”, and stating that “it leave the soil clean after use.” These were clear and false claims that were immediately called out by the French Union. Another important environmental risk is the fact that since these GMO crops have foreign DNA in them, it is unknown exactly how they will react in the environment around them or how they will affect the current population of species. It is evident that these crops are uncontrollable and are a mutation that will have some sort of effect on the world around them.
Ever since 1908, when Henry Ford manufactured a car that was affordable to most families, the need for oil has been growing more and more every year as humans want more and more products that use oil or are made from it. People and their need for oil far exceeds the need to fill up their car. It stretches out to vast amount of products that people use every day. Including plastics bags when they go shopping, the shampoo they use to clean their hair, the toys their kids play with and the insulation used to keep their houses warm. However with all the positives of oil they’re a lot of negatives that are a result of using oil. One immediate negative oil causes is pollution, oil has two predominant types of pollution. But before we can talk about the different types of pollution. We first need to understand what pollution is. According to Jack Dini and two chapters from his book, Challenging the Environmental Mythology: Wrestling Zeus. Dini says his definition of pollution is “To pollute is to make physically impure or unclean: to contaminate especially with man-made waste” (Dini-2). He later mentions that pollution has two different parameters. The first one being dirtiness and the second being danger. Dini writes “while safety is often talked about as an absolute requirement, modern science can detect such infinitesimally small dangers that the decision about how much health threatening pollution to allow becomes a matter of preference or efficiency, not and absolute.” (Dini-2). By writing this Dini recognizes that there is technology that can tell people when there is to much pollution, however once they know how much pollution there is, it is up to the people to decide when enough is enough and make a change. One being air pollut...
...ing may have on the greater population. Regulations on food safety prevent illness to the masses and testing of new chemicals and additives is important (although cumbersome and costly to manufacturers). Vaccinations have helped eradicate many diseases and increased life longevity over the past century (Gostin et al., 2003). Requiring these types of behaviors helps the public as a whole in the utilitarian sense. Regulations have arguably put a financial burden on businesses (Crain & Crain, 2010) but that’s why cost-benefit analyses are important. Benefits are not necessarily free and costs have to occur to achieve regulatory missions. Without regulations, financial burdens could be alleviated but the health of the masses and degradation of the environment would be in a more dire state. Regulation can be considered a necessary evil and great benefit to public health.
The invention I will be marketing is the Kite mosquito shielding. The Kite offers a new form of mosquito repellent that does not use harmful, hazardous sprays. The Kite is a disposable one and a half inch square that can be either stuck to your clothing or skin. The Product is embedded with a Propriety blend of non-toxic, FDA approved chemicals that shield the tracking of mosquitoes making the consumer invisible. Mosquitoes track Humans through the exhalation of carbon dioxide, our product blocks that scent. Each patch provides the user with 48 hours of protection, once the patch comes in contact with oxygen. The main goal of our product is to help fight and hopefully one day stop diseases caused by mosquitos. A user would simply stick the patch on either their clothing or in a slot provided, with the purchase of Kite patch attire, and be free from the nagging bites of mosquitoes for 48 hours. We have decided to market our product to India. India was our first choice because of the magnitude of poverty and the increasing rate of malaria fatalities. The kite patch can help prevent a rising statistic of 1,500,000 cases of malaria.
I believe as a major company in their industry they should safegaurd the public’s health and look out for their best interests. This new research has an indirect effect on their sales and contributing such large amounts dispalys their awareness of that correlation. Companies should put profit aside and really look out for their consumers, especially now with so much more freedom given to
A SWOT analysis of the food control system in Bahrain revealed that certain strengths and weaknesses are inherent in the system. In addition to the weaknesses and the strengths, there are threats that would negatively affect the system if not prevented or brought under control. Nevertheless, the there are opportunities available for responding to the threats, making the Bahrain food control systems more efficient and effective. It is therefore important that some or all of these strengths, opportunities, threats, and weaknesses are reviewed. Conspicuous among the weaknesses is the fact that limited resources are available for the agencies and the personnel employed in the Bahrain food control system. Related to lack of resources is the lack of skills and competencies in applying modern techniques, more so in microbiological and chemical analysis. The second weakness of the Bahrain food control system is that most of the laws and regulations on food safety and control are not based on risk- or science-based analysis. In other words, the laws could be outdated and irrelevant in comparison with the latest mechanisms by which pathogens and other contaminants affect foodstuffs (Nestle, 2007). Furthermore, Bahrain lacks the technical expertise or competent enough personnel who could assess the effectiveness and the applicability of their food control laws.
Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue. Governments all over the world are intensifying their efforts to improve food safety. Food borne illnesses are diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food. “In industrialized countries, the percentage of people suffering from food borne diseases each year has been reported to be up to 30%. In the United States of America, for example, around 76 million cases of food borne diseases, resulting in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths, are estimated to occur each year.” (Geneva 2)
It is time, at last, to speak the truth about toxic chemicals behind personal care and beauty products. The daily products of an average person consists of face wash, hand soap, shampoo, conditioner, floss, toothpaste, and deodorant. Surprisingly, all of these products listed contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to our body. If we use these products to maintain our hygiene, does that mean we are not clean without these products? For example, a common shampoo many people use is Head and Shoulders. However, do we know if the shampoo is cleaning our hair from beginning to end or is it damaging our hair? How often do you read the ingredients labeled on your personal care products and wonder if they are safe to use? More importantly, if you
There are many uses for new inventions. Edible toothpaste is used in space and in society. For example, in the 1960’s, rocket ships (Apollo 11) were tight and cramped. These rockets could not fit a toilet or a sink in as the whole rocket was filled with mission-related equipment. In space this toothpaste was used so that a toilet or a sink was not needed to brush one’s teeth. As the flights were really long and oral health would become a problem, scientists wanted to solve this problem. These scientists worked with dentists and sought to find a solution. This is how they came up with space paste or also known as ingestible toothpaste. Another useful and innovative toothpaste is made from all-natural ingredients, which makes it a very healthy toothpaste. This toothpaste is called Neonisin. There is an active ingredient in Neonisin and this is “Nisin”. Nisin is a peptide, which is harvested from lactic bacteria found in soy bean curd. In daily life, this toothpaste is used in many families as an alternative toothpaste for children and as a first toothpaste for babies. This is possible ...