Re: [Paddlewise] Hot WX paddling

On Aug 9, 22:55, Sandykayak_at_aol.com wrote:
} Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Hot WX paddling
> In a message dated 8/9/99 9:33:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ratten_at_uow.edu.au 
> writes:
> 
> << the effectiveness of the sunscreen which of course you have liberally 
> applied to avoid skin cancer!  Regards, Peter Rattenbury, Wollongong NSW >>
> 
> This brings up another topic.  My daughter, who is the proud mother of a 6 
> month-old baby, told me that she heard that whatever ingredient they put in 
> sunscreen to make it waterproof can cause/contribute to blindness!!  That 
> someone called a manufacturer and the response was to the effect that, well 
> it might, but we don't want to scare anyone!
> 
> Has anyone out there heard anything on this or has contacts that can provide 
> any answers? 

Toxin scare of the day.

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/sunscree.htm

Yet another hoax.


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