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Innocent Until Proven Guilty

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Open the page of any popular 21st century newspaper and you will see story after story exposing individuals who have been arrested in connection to some crime or other. Uniformly, you will find them treated as guilty before the trial. It is this treatment which ruins the reputations of many upstanding citizens who have the misfortune to be wrongly accused.

We must remember that the mere fact of accusation does not in itself entail guilt; that is not determined until a trial by jury has been conducted. Sadly, this is not a new trend - in fact, as this historical example shows, defendants are treated as guilty more often than they are presumed innocent.

In Los Angeles, in 1909, complaints that defenseless prisoners in the city jail were "man-handled" and otherwise ill-treated drew from the chief of police an assurance that such methods and the administration of the "third degree" would not be permitted ; but the persecution to which Mrs. Laura Sim, wrongfully suspected of having tried to murder Mrs. Staehle, claims to have been subjected discounts considerably the worth of that assurance.

According to her statement, published October 22, 1909, she was arrested Tuesday afternoon, searched, her watch and all her belongings taken from her, thrown into a dark cell and left there until the following afternoon, when she was taken again to the detectives' office. Her account continues :

"They said, 'Well, if this woman dies you can just feel the noose around your neck. In any case we've got you and we're going to send you up for this.'

No matter how many times they asked me to repeat my story I did not change. They said the prints on the window were the same as mine. I reached out my hands and said : 'Here, take as many imprints as you like. These hands are clean of crime.'

They called up some one on the 'phone, and then said that my imprints had been found to be exactly the same as those on the window. When they saw that I did not falter.

They accused me of caring for Mr. Staehle. They were absolutely devoted to each other and it did my heart good to see it. They accused me of intimacy with Mr. Staehle.

I said, 'No. I am a lady and until you can prove me other than one you will please treat me as such.'

Thursday afternoon they took all kinds of imprints of my hand with ink, with powder and with a black powder. They accused me over and over of stabbing my friend. They again accused me of intimacy with Mr. Staehle.

When they found they could not shake my story they released me. It was about 5 o'clock Thursday evening. They said : 'We have conducted this case as carefully and as delicately as we could. We do not want you to be put to any unnecessary notoriety. There is a crowd of newspaper men outside. Walk between us and duck your head, so that they cannot get your picture.'"

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

"The current system of regulating chemicals is really broken," says Bill Walker from the non-profit Environmental Working Group in Oakland, CA, an organization that educates the public about toxic contaminates in the environment. ?You are dealing with chemicals that can harm your growth and development."

?Chemicals surround us; from the food we eat, to the electronic devices we use, to the clothes we wear, and they affect your health,? we often tell patients at the Maulfair Medical Center in Topton, PA. ?Thousands of new synthetic chemicals come into manufactured consumer products every year with little to no safety testing or public approval process.? According to the World Health Organization, there are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use in consumer products today with 1,000 to 2,000 being added to the list each year.

But to what extent do they put our health in danger? This is increasingly questioned by scientists.

Cosmetic safety - voluntary and discretionary. Of particular concern are personal health care products. The typical person uses ten products every day, yet, to date, just 11 percent of all ingredients in cosmetics have been reviewed for safety by the seven-member industry panel called the Cosmetic Ingredient Review. Although The Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) website states ?The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) legal authority over cosmetics is comparable with its authority over other FDA-regulated products, such as foods, nonprescription drugs, and nonprescription medical devices,? [1] when challenged by public petition in September 2005 the FDA wrote: "The [Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act] contains no provision that requires demonstration to FDA of the safety of ingredients of cosmetic products... prior to marketing the product." [2]

Further, although PCPC claims that ?the FDA can take immediate action to stop the sale of any product that does not meet these standards,? the mere act of FDA suggesting a recall requires that the Agency have firm evidence of potential human harm. "[T]he [Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act] does not authorize FDA to order a recall for a defective or possibly harmful cosmetic product," writes FDA.

Over the past year the personal care product industry has combated a growing stream of scientific publications that raise questions about the safety of chemicals in cosmetics. Industry representatives have fielded questions about research linking the fragrance ingredients called phthalates to low testosterone and stunted reproductive system development in baby boys.[3] They have responded to concerns over the presence in human breast tumor tissue of the ubiquitous, estrogen-like cosmetic preservatives called parabens (these begin with butyl-, methyl, ethyl-, and propyl-). Although "Our Stolen Future" (OSF), which examines synthetic chemicals

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