{"id":4451,"date":"2014-06-23T07:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2014-06-23T07:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:28:57","slug":"triclosan-risks-continue-to-raise-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2014\/06\/triclosan-risks-continue-to-raise-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Triclosan Risks Continue to Raise Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cover story for this week&#8217;s C&amp;E News (June 23, 2014) is called <a title=\"Triclosan Under the Microscope | C&amp;E News, June 23, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/92\/i25\/Triclosan-Under-Microscope.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Triclosan Under the Microscope<\/strong><\/a>. Triclosan is mainly used as an anti-bacterial additive. According to the article, small amounts of triclosan are routinely added to &#8220;soaps, bodywashes, deodorants, toothpaste, shaving gel, and cosmetics, as well as products such as dishwashing liquids, laundry detergents, cutting boards, toys, fabrics, shoes, and caulking compounds,&#8221; which are subsequently marketed as &#8220;antibacterial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of this might be fine if triclosan could be persuaded to stay put inside these products, but to be effective as anti-bacterial, it needs to be released into the places where germs might appear: our skin, teeth, dish water, clothes, and so on. This fact, along with concerns over possible adverse health consequences associated with prolonged triclosan exposure, and also triclosan&#8217;s ability to migrate far and wide through the natural environment, encouraged Minnesota legislators to ban triclosan-containing soaps and cleaning products last month.<\/p>\n<p>As the article makes clear, the triclosan story is not an easy one to resolve. More scientific and health studies are needed. One study mentioned in the article was a 2010 investigation led by (then U. Minnesota, now ETH-Zurich) <a title=\"Kristopher McNeill | ETH - Zurich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibp.ethz.ch\/research\/environmentalchemistry\/Group\/mcneill\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Prof. Kris McNeill &#8217;92<\/strong><\/a> (&#8220;Dioxin Photoproducts of Triclosan and Its Chlorinated Derivatives in Sediment Cores,&#8221; DOI: <a title=\"DOI 10.1021\/es1001105\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1021\/es1001105\" target=\"_blank\">10.1021\/es1001105<\/a>). This study showed that triclosan undergoes photochemical reactions once it reaches the environment that convert triclosan molecules into potentially harmful versions of another chemical of concern, dioxin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cover story for this week&#8217;s C&amp;E News (June 23, 2014) is called Triclosan Under the Microscope. Triclosan is mainly used as an anti-bacterial additive. According to the article, small amounts of triclosan are routinely added to &#8220;soaps, bodywashes, deodorants,&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2014\/06\/triclosan-risks-continue-to-raise-questions\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Triclosan Risks Continue to Raise Questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}