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tigerdell

Hope springs infernal
Mar 29, 2014
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Back in the day I worked in consumer products and skin lightener products were big all over the world for the company I worked for and for some others as well. These products have since been largely withdrawn (mainly because the major active ingredient hydroquinone has been listed as carcinogenic) but for years they were very big sellers in Asia, Africa and Latin/South America for all the reasons mentioned.
Was it previously known that hydroquinone was carcinogenic?
It sounds vaguely similar to tobacco, ddt etc so is there a possibility of widespread legal action?
 

Sintiger

Tiger Legend
Aug 11, 2010
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Was it previously known that hydroquinone was carcinogenic?
It sounds vaguely similar to tobacco, ddt etc so is there a possibility of widespread legal action?
I don’t really know if there was action taken but you can still buy skin lightening creams containing hydroquinone around the world but with low concentrations, pharmacy only etc.
As I recall it the whole thing was suspected rather than proven but that lead to a much reduced use of it in these products
 
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spook

Kick the f*ckin' goal
Jun 18, 2007
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There is no rort to which these despicable LNP governments will not stoop.


Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery have been heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up just 1% of $177 million handed out. Elizabeth Minter investigates how a fast-tracked fund with no name directed grants to the timber industry, coalition donor Visy and community infrastructure that was not in accordance with project guidelines. There was even a $194,000 grant to Snives Hives, a business on the leafy Upper North Shore suburb of St Ives to “establish a Meadery to make and wholesale honey wine on the Central Coast”.
 
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eZyT

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Jun 28, 2019
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This is the problem we're going to have with Trump now gone, more focus on our own politics. Yes, he said it. He also made some references to apologies having been made. Was he one of the Libs who walked out of the room when Krudd formally apologised? Abbott and Dutton were, I might be confusing the walkout with the joking about Pacific Nations soon being underwater.

Sophie Mirrabella, Wilson Tucky, Dennis Jensen, ALby Shultz, Don Randall and Peter Dutton boycotted the Apology.

Morrison however signalled his howardian viewpoint in his maiden speech ....

We can choose to sit in judgement on previous generations, thinking we would have done it differently. But would we? Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Nor can we compare the world we live in today with the world that framed the policies of previous generations. So let us not judge.

Now I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm absolutely certain I wouldn't have rounded up black kids into a cattle pen and bludgeoned them to death (to save bullets) for a bit of Sunday afternoon sport (refer to Myall Creek Massacre Court Transcript). But I suppose if Morrisons 'we' are the LNP, then there are a few who would have rolled up their sleeves and participated, with historical indemnity?
 
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tigerman

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artball

labels are for canned food
Jul 30, 2013
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2 new LNP 'reformations':

* merging Family Court with Federal Circuit Court - dumbs down Family Law / becomes far less 'specialist'. 110 organisations have opposed it. Federal Circuit Court been described as a "Zoo". often 70 cases heard before 10am.
think about it in relation to what the Family Court deals with ..

* Divorce proceedings - minimum wait of 2 years.

what is this Govts obsession with family law and an almost maniacal attitude that people must stay together? no matter what the situation - abusive parents, violence, complete breakdowns, etc..

its very regresssive 'Christian Right' thinking. they're sending us backwards this mob.
 
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