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on november 19, 2024 the united states food and drug administration (FDA) published a warning letter written earlier in the month to tom's of maine for being fucking disgusting and not adequately responding to accusations of being fucking disgusting. the FDA found black mold-like substances growing around production equipment as well as water contaminated with disease-causing bacteria.

that contaminated water was used both for cleaning equipment and as an ingredient in toothpaste.

here are some snippets from the FDA letter.

Your firm produced (b)(4) water and used it as a component in your OTC drug products and as a final rinse after equipment cleaning. A. You recovered Pseudomonas aeruginosa in multiple (b)(4) water samples, from June 2021 to October 2022. This water was used to manufacture Tom’s Simply White Clean Mint Paste, batch (b)(4), and for the final rinse of numerous equipment cleaning processes. None of these incidents were investigated to assess product impact and water system performance. B. You also reported multiple incidents where too numerous to count (TNTC) Ralstonia insidiosa was recovered from water points of use. Your investigations included testing of new samples collected at least 4 days after the initial sampling. Batches manufactured after these incidents were released based on the microbial testing of the finished OTC product despite the quality of the water used as a component or to clean the equipment. C. You recovered gram-negative cocco-bacilli Paracoccus yeei in your OTC finished product, Wicked Cool! Anticavity Toothpaste, batch 3025UST11B. Your investigation concluded, without sufficient justification, that the growth was due to sample contamination. The batch was released based on retest results.

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Your complaint procedure is inadequate because not all quality related issues are investigated.

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For example, approximately 400 complaints related to odor, color, and taste in your toothpaste products, including those for children, were not investigated. These complaints are not investigated because your procedure requires an investigation only if a trend is identified.

and they ignored HUNDREDS OF COMPLAINTS, AT LEAST. including in products meant for children!

and most importantly, despite how many details are in the FDA warning letter, it explicitly states the list of violations is not comprehensive. this is not everything tom's of maine has fucked up, ignored, or blatantly tried to sweep under the rug.

you can find the whole FDA warning letter here.

you may note in the CBS article that tom's of maine basically said they investigated themselves and found nothing wrong using their own investigation process. considering their investigation process itself is under scrutiny by the FDA, take their response with a grain of salt.

if you use tom's of maine toothpaste, you might want to consider using something else, especially if your immune system is not the best. the FDA letter is pretty damning. these are choices that were made on purpose to prioritize profit over safety. I am definitely going to think twice before buying anything from them from now on.

tom's of maine is owned by colgate-palmolive.

this is not a recall. tom's of maine products potentially made using contaminated water, including those aimed at children, remain on shelves.

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everytime a mutual reblogs my content I kick my feet and giggle

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I have a thing to get to but had to get this out real quick

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We need shittable cities (actively maintained public restrooms).

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victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

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im reading about cowboy phrases and sayings and like 95% of them are just solid life advice

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i knew teslas were bad but "literally twice as deadly as the average vehicle" is something else

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Friendly reminder than the surgeries that 95% of all infants born with intersex traits receive to "correct" their bodies often leave them sterilized and unable to reproduce. Reproductive justice should always include intersex people but it never fucking does.

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if what i am disgusts you then i hope my existence poisons your thoughts and feelings forever.

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album art is so important because it tells you what color the songs are

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It is very simple.

1- Stop doing the whole "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" thing. That's buying into a sexist worldview even if you switch the values around to "the things I associate with women are good actually" like people tried to do with astrology. You just end up sounding like James Dobson.

2- Get principled about supporting bodily autonomy. Actually internalize the idea that people's bodies belong to them and they can change them if they want. The right to do this comes pre-installed on all people and no one needs to "earn it". You don't even need to conclusively prove that it would make you objectively happier or anything, you should be able to just do it if you want.

3- Understand that trans people are infinitely varied. Even the subcategories of trans people (such as trans women) are infinitely varied, just like cis people. There isn't one singular and universal trans experience just like how there isn't one singular and universal gendered experience. Don't rely on stereotypes and assumptions to form your idea of what being trans is like.

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dragons have lips

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objectified but in a left on a shelf to gather dust kinda way

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Here!! My Lyctor Harrow cosplay!! I’m so excited to have these pictures and release them into the world, please enjoy my hundreds of hours of beading and embroidery and decades of religious trauma bundled up into this tiny emo nun :0