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Article: Asthma Study Analysis Sends Wrong Messages About Beneficial Cleaning Products; British Observational Study Draws Overly Broad Conclusions, Says SDA.
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- December 23, 2004
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Media coverage of a British study on children and asthma wrongly links the use of cleaning products to asthma suffering -- and ignores the health benefits of responsible product usage, according to The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA).
Newspaper stories that have attacked the use of cleaning products and hygiene in general are based on an observational study published in the British journal Thorax. The initial interpretation of the study -- based on answers to a questionnaire -- presumes that usage of chemicals in household cleaning products leads to wheezing and asthma suffering in children.
SDA, which represents ...