Cohousing-L Mailing List: Urban legend / hoax [ was Re: Off-Topic!!! Dioxin in Tampons.

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

I am very skeptical about the message forwarded to the Cohousing-L:
Re: Off-Topic!!!  Dioxin in Tampons...

See for example:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ocd/tamponsabs.html

To check out such suspect kinds of things that float around the net,
I suggest going to yahoo and search for "hoax" , go to any of the sites
listed and search for the specifics from the message.  This is what
I did and found among other things the above link.

Please do not post off topic messages to Cohousing-L.
Putting "Off-Topic" on the subject line does not make it acceptable.

The current discussion on Economics evolved from one that was cohousing
related but may be drifting into (thru) a grey area of relevance...  

Fred, cohousing-L list manager


On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Jose Marquez marchpower [at] worldnet.att.net wrote:

> Hi All!
> 
> I've heard about this before and it definately has some substance to
> it...although this woman is a bit overly emotional sounding.  Please look
> more into this with whatever resources are available to you...I stopped
> using tampons because of the dioxin issue regardless of the other one
> mentioned in this.  Please send on...
> 
> > > << >
> > >  >> URGENT  WOMAN'S  HEALTH  ALERT   RE  USING  TAMPONS
> > >  >>
> > >  >>    This is pretty interesting and somewhat shocking ... if you
> > >  >use pads,

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URL below corrected 1/7/00    sorry.   Includes WTO info.

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