Toothpaste Cancer Alert

[xoxoxoBruce]

From The London Evening Standard

Dozens of toothpastes sold at supermarkets are at the centre of a cancer alert today.
Anti-bacterial cleaning products, including dishwashing liquid and handwash, are also affected.
Researchers have discovered that triclosan, a chemical in the products, can react with water to produce chloroform gas. If inhaled in large enough quantities, chloroform can cause depression, liver problems and, in some cases, cancer.

Professor Peter Vikesland, of Virginia Tech University, who carried out the research, said: "This is the first work that we know of that suggests that consumer products, such as antimicrobial soap, can produce significant quantities of chloroform."

I've worried these anti-bacterial products would backfire by reducing resistance in kids to germs, bacteria mutating into something unkillable or just poisoning people.
Chloroform sounds like poison to me. Right now they say the chlorine in the public water systems but chlorine equivilents can be found in any water. There might be other stuff that reacts with Triclosan also.