Press Release: Position Statment Issued on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Press Release: Position Statment Issued on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
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Position Statment Issued on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

 

October 26, 2007 - MCS America, a national organization, has issued a position statement on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).  The paper supports the position that MCS is a disorder of organic biological origin induced by toxic environmental insults, and requires immediate recognition in the workplace, medical community, school system, and public places across America; and that it is crucial that environmental toxicants are identified and reduced or effectively regulated and enforced through legislation to prevent additional injury to citizens.

 

Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is an environmental illness (EI) in which negative neurological, pulmonary, cardiac, and rheumatic health effects, among others, are experienced from exposure to common environmental chemicals including fragrances, cleaners, pesticides, and other petrochemicals at concentrations that are below regulatory toxicity thresholds and that are normally deemed as safe.

 

A surprising number of people report sensitivity to ordinary everyday chemicals.  The figures range from an average of eleven to seventeen percent, with spikes as high as thirty percent of subjects who report reactions to multiple chemical incitants.

 

MCS America seeks to clarify the many contradistinctions in the medical, scientific, legal, and social communities so that MCS may be granted the same recognition that the Centers for Disease Control recently granted to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 

 

"Sufficient clear and present evidence is currently available to show that MCS is real and disabling, and to justify, indeed to demand, immediate action," said Lourdes Salvador, Founder and President of MCS America.

 

Salvador cites the worldwide status of MCS recognition and asserts, "It is essential that MCS be immediately and fully recognized in America as an organic physiological disorder induced by toxic environmental insults."  She asks that immediate accommodation with a safe environment for school, work, and housing be granted to MCS victims.

 

The position paper is available for supporting signatures at:  http://www.petitiononline.com/MCSAPS/petition.html

For additional information e-mail MCS America, admin@mcs-america.org or visit www.mcs-america.org.

About MCS America:

The mission of MCS America (MCSA) is to gain medical, legal, and social recognition for multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) as a disorder of organic biological origin induced by toxic environmental insults.  Secondarily, MCSA seeks to ensure that environmental toxicants are identified, reduced, regulated, and enforced through lobbying for effective legislation.

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