Halifax has been able to do what the Federal Drug Administration, the European Commission and other regulatory agencies have been unable to do. And all this, at the Fragrance industry's expense. Not at the government's expense. Check your facts, Ms. Bridges and mostly, base your reactions and comments on facts, not mass hysteria. Dyslexia is a neurological dysfunction.
Symptoms are often identical to chemical hypersensitivity.
Her reasoning would be almost a logical one if MCS was something recognized by doctors, but, unfortunately for her, MCS has been widely rejected as a legitimate organic disease by most doctors and researchers across the U.S. and Canada. The American Medical Association, the American Medical Council on Scientific Affairs, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology have all rejected MCS as a legitimate disease. In other words, the illness that's taken Halifax, and almost the entire Northern coast of California by surprise may well be a figment of these people collective imagination, in other words, a psychosomatic epidemic. She complained of seizures, upon exposure to various fragrances, she would show behavioral signs of seizure activity, including muscle jerking, becoming disoriented, non-responsive, and giving classic signs of what she believed a seizure would look like. That just doesn't happen with a real seizure.