Sunday, December 16, 2012

Report: EU mulls ban of allergen found in Chanel No. 5 | Redux

Posted by

Report: EU mulls ban of allergen found in Chanel No. 5

Allergy Relief for Your Child
Allergy Relief for Your Child by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
License (according to Flickr): United States Government Work
Excerpt:

Europe's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety wants to remove some allergens, such as tree moss and oak moss, that are found in fragrances such as Chanel's No. 5 and Dior's Miss Dior, Reuters reports. The European Union is mulling the committee's recommendations. This past June, the committee released a report on fragrance allergens in cosmetic products, which plague Europeans with contact allergies to fragrance. According to the committee, up to 3 percent of Europeans have a contact allergy to fragrances. Dr. Clifford Bassett, assistant clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center who has no involvement with the committee's research, told CBSNews. com the allergies can result in skin rash, itchiness, eyelid swelling, and eczema in the hands, what's called allergic contact dermatitis. In 1999, the committee identified 26 fragrance chemicals causing allergies in patients.

People:

Dr. Clifford Bassett

Overall Sentiment: 0.0805404

Relevance: 0.767284

SentimentQuote
-0.0999918"It is the death of perfume if this continues. The EU said it is in talks with all parties to assess the impact the committee's recommendations would have on the industry, according to Reuters. Fragrance allergies affect more than 2 million Americans, according to Bassett. "Fragrance allergy is on the rise, particularly in women, and it's becoming a bigger and bigger problem," he said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0999918
  • Mean: -0.0999918
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Miss Dior

Overall Sentiment: -0.155301

Relevance: 0.310762

Sylvie Jourdet

Overall Sentiment: 0.178398

Relevance: 0.2554

Chanel

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.244599

Ian White

Overall Sentiment: 0.22585

Relevance: 0.243616

Francoise Montenay

Overall Sentiment: 0.0983012

Relevance: 0.238349

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

HealthCondition: allergic contact dermatitis

Overall Sentiment: -0.0122846

Relevance: 0.315495

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | DiseaseReferences:

Company: Reuters

Overall Sentiment: -0.0370634

Relevance: 0.635492

Organization: Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.444247

Organization: European Union

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.334957

Disambiguation: Location | Country | GovernmentalJurisdiction | MembershipOrganization | AwardWinnerReferences:

Facility: NYU Langone Medical Center

Overall Sentiment: 0.0535733

Relevance: 0.311347

Disambiguation: HospitalReferences:
Site Meta Tags
at
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)