Another reason to avoid buying heavy duty 'cleaners' is product recalls, which are manufacturing failures. The volumes of products we mass produce staggers the imagination. Some people say that, in comparison, the number of recalls is small. And that it is part of doing business. Those people should try to remember that it is someone's skin, someone's eyes, someone's health and someone's home at risk from fire or exposure.
The fact is that all this chemical stuff sold as 'cleaners' and 'scenter's and all their excessive, non-reusable packaging is wasteful and unnecessary. We need to stop this. To stop creating products that are polluting, toxic, dangerous and unnecessary.
Here is a sampling of some products, volumes and recall reasons.
1. 24,000 'Cabot Deck Cleaner' products-the ingredients can react with the metal foil packaging, releasing heat and chlorine gas (!), posing a fire and inhalation hazard.
2. 50,000 cans of Easy-Off oven cleaner- due to improperly attached valve assembly, contents can spew out, risking chemical burns to skin and eyes. Yowch!
3. Three products, totally 761,000 items, ranging from Aerosol Foam Cleaner, Wood Cleaner, Deck Cleaner all recalled for defective cans/containers.
4. Zep brand Drain Cleaner- 1.1 million (!) bottles can leak- IMAGINE-Drain Cleaner leaking out, onto your skin/eyes. Coming into potential contact with children. Or pets. Or your sinks and shelves. Three reports of human contact resulted. 13 of property damage. And that's just what the CPSC had on file at the time of this report.
5. 2.5 million (!) Glade Plug In Scented Oil - potentially misassembled during manufacture, posing fire risk.
*All this information and more is on the consumer product safety website for your viewing pleasure (or horror): http://www.cpsc.gov/ Thanks for reading. C. Anne
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