THE POLITICS OF TAMPONS

For Immediate Release
Toronto, Canada, August 29, 1996

THE POLITICS OF TAMPONS

Bio Business International is asking U.S. and Canadian governments to assure women that all tampons are safe. Citing their survey of over 1,000 women, company president Wilhelmina Nolan explained, "A much higher percentage of women have reported symptoms of Toxic Shock Syndrome than FDA estimates allow."

Nolan supports the recent introduction by U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) of a bill which would require the National Institute of Health to look at "health risks for women," including risks relating to cervical cancer," from dioxin in tampons. She calls on all women to support this type of legislation and to pressure their own elected representatives for similar legislation.

Bio Business encourages women not to buy from companies that sell menstrual products containing chlorine or rayon (even if they introduce a "special line" for women who want more "natural" products). Nolan emphatically states, "If they're still making tampons with rayon and chlorine, they're still placing women at unnecessary risk. We want formal, independent studies to begin as soon as possible."

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For a backgrounder to the information, contact:
Wilhelmina Nolan, Bio Business International, 78 Hallam Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6H 1W8.
Also see a profile on Wilhelmina Nolan in the Sept./Oct. 1996 issue of Ms. Magazine.
Tel: 416/539-8548. Fax: 416/539-9784. Web Site: <http://www.biobiz.com/terrafemme/> (The "Politics of Tampons").