HOW SAFE IS FRAGRANCE AVAILABE IN THE MARKET?

This has reference to the small item appeared in the Times Trend (Times of India, Mumbai, January 5, 2007).

Definitely, the news item deserves much more publicity as it involves millions of persons, young and old, who lavishly spray themselves with the perfumes/fragrances, being sold everywhere, in the big malls, in the shops and on the roadsides. The public in general should be educated as to the origin and the possible health hazards (particularly to the central nervous system) of the present day perfumes.

The perfumes/fragrance sold these days appear to be a mixture of hundreds or thousands of organic chemicals derived from petroleum. Some of the chemicals used are known to be carcinogenic and a few are potentially carcinogenic chemicals.

It is time that government should take note of these developments and take the necessary steps to regulate the manufacture, marketing and use of these synthetic perfumes/fragrances.