From: Fernando Mendes [fmendes@gte.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 8:49 PM To: chymes Subject: Could you help debunk this recent hoax by putting it in your page ? Dear Mr. Hymes, Could you update your page with the following hoax ? >To: askuphs@mail.med.upenn.edu >From: rpbokenk@mail.med.upenn.edu (Raymond Bokenkamp) >Subject: Fw: Is the Sodium Laureth Sulfate message a hoax ? >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:50:10 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) >Reply-To: rpbokenk@mail.med.upenn.edu (Raymond Bokenkamp) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: bulk > > >-- Begin original message -- > > From: "Fernando Mendes" > Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:53:07 -0600 > Subject: Is the Sodium Laureth Sulfate message a hoax ? > To: > > Hi, > > I would like to confirm if the following message is a hoax (it seems to be). > It mentions "Michelle Hailey Executive Secretary University of Pennsylvania > Health System Office of Legal Affairs (215) 662-2546". > > Thanks in advance, > Fernando > > ------------------------------Forwarded message: > Check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see if they > have a substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate, or simply SLS. > > This substance is found in most shampoos, and the manufactures use it > because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the fact is that > SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong. It is also > proven that it can cause cancer in the long run,and this is no joke. > > I went home and checked my shampoo (Vidal Sasoon), it doesn't contain > it; however, others such as Vo5, Palmolive, Paul Mitchell, the new Hemp > shampoo, etc.. contains this substance. > > So I called one company, and I told them their product contains a > substance that will cause people to have cancer. They said "Yeah, we > knew about it but there is nothing we can do about it because we need > that substance to produce foam. > > By the way Colgate toothpaste also contains the same substance to > produce the "bubbles". They said they are going to send me some > information. Research has shown that in the 1980s, the chance of getting > cancer is 1 out of 8000 and now, in the 1990s, the chances of getting > cancer is 1 out of 3, which is very serious. So I hope that you will > take this seriously and pass this on to all the people you know, and > hopefully, we can stop "giving" ourselves the cancer virus. > > This is serious, after you have read this, pass it on to as many people > as possible, this is not a chain letter, but it concerns our health. > > Michelle Hailey Executive Secretary University of Pennsylvania Health > System Office of Legal Affairs (215) 662-2546 > > >-- End original message -- Dear Mr. Mendes: Thank you for contacting the University of Pennsylvania Health System regarding this matter. The message in question was received by one of our employees as unsolicited e-mail. The employee then forwarded it to some of her acquaintances. Eventually, the message was posted to various Usenet newsgroups. The employee had no intention of distributing this message to anyone other than the friends to whom she had forwarded it. The University of Pennsylvania Health System does not endorse this message and cannot address the accuracy of the information. If you know others who have received this message, please feel free to forward the entire text of this reply to them. Sincerely, UPHS Health Care Web Team ********************************* Raymond Bokenkamp, Ir. Programmer Analyst 3508 Market Street, Suite 100 Philadelphia, PA 19104 Technology Services Group Univ. of Pennsylvania Health System Phone: 215-662-4128 *********************************