New car smells...new paint smells...new shower curtain smells: despite what you may have been trained to think, "new" smells are usually code for "toxic poisons entering your blood stream." Case in point: The Los Angeles Times published an article recently on vinyl shower curtains in which they discusse a study conducted by The Center For Health, Environment and Justice. The study found vinyl (also known as PVC) shower curtains to posess dangerous levels of chemicals that cause damage to the central nervous, reproductive and respiratory systems as well as the liver.
One of the five curtains tested released at least 108 VOCs, chemicals that infected the indoor air for as long as a month.
According to Marth Dina Argüello, the executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, "PVC is just bad from cradle to cradle...It's just not very good or safe to produce. It's a mess when you create, it's a mess when you get rid of it, and it's off-gassing when you're using it." Argüello went on to say that "in the face of scientific uncertainty you should probably act to protect rather than bring me the dead bodies. We always say: How much evidence do you need to act if there are safer alternatives?" You said it, sister.
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