OCA Follow-up Cosmetic Tests Reveal Lower 1,4-Dioxane

March 10, 2009 by DawnM  
Filed under Greenwashing, Organic Industry

OCA: Coming Clean Campaign

OCA: Coming Clean Campaign

In 2007 and 2008 the US Organic Consumers Association (OCA) in conjunction with Dr Bronners and health consumer advocate David Steinman, released a study which showed that a number of products labelled as ‘organic’ and even some certified as ‘organic,’ (apart from those certified by the USDA which has stringent oragnic standards), contained the petrochemical carcinogen 1,4-dioxane.

As a result in May 2008 the OCA and Dr Bronner’s filed Cease and Desist Letters to many of the brands making fraudulent claims when they were in Read more