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-(Corproate Wire)- The National Toxic Encephalopathy Foundation (NTEF) suspects a correlation. Since the filing of the NTEF’s citizen’s petition to the FDA, we have received emails from mothers who have had issues with their pregnancy and suspected their use of Angel Perfume might have been a factor.
During a conference call with Patricia Hansen, Ph.D, Senior Scientist and Linda Katz, M.D., MPH, FDA Director, the NTEF discussed the possible correlation between abnormal pregnancies and Angel Perfume. The FDA is in receipt of the emails from women who also suspected this correlation. The FDA is now looking into these new health concerns.
The NTEF suspects that the incorporation of chemicals such as Coumarin and Benzophenone-2, in concert with Linalool, Citral, Isoeugenol, Butylphenyl Methylpropional can be the culprits.
We have reports of miscarriages, stillbirths and hemorrhaging for no apparent reason. Infant autopsies have been performed and were inconclusive. The NTEF does not believe that toxicological panels were run for the chemicals that we suspect. Most toxicological tests test for drugs rather than for specific chemicals, especially if the chemicals were unknown at the time of testing.
Since 2006, the only two tests provided by Clarins, showed that there was a concerted effort to exclude pregnant women from the dermal assault test. This was conducted by Harrison Laboratory in New Jersey claiming that the test was a random sampling of subjects. In fact, the test subjects were intentionally prescreened.
There has been no valid toxicological testing to confirm the safety of this product during pregnancy.
“The toxicological testing that was done on Angel Perfume was accomplished in tissue culture using re-constituted cornea. This is a substantial difference in the test results with respect to toxic effects to either animals or humans”. In addition, such testing cannot be equated to women who are pregnant”, said Dr. Jack D. Thrasher, Ph.D., Toxicologist, Immuno-toxicologist, Fetal-toxicologist and Technical Director of the NTEF.
We are therefore, asking for anyone who had unique problems during pregnancy and used Angel Perfume during gestation, please contact our foundation. The NTEF is seeking to do a preliminary study to see if this warrants further widespread investigation.
Until such time, the NTEF is advising pregnant women to discuss the chemical make-up of Angel Perfume with their physician, along with the findings we have compiled.
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