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dont got anything good to post for christmas soooo ill throw some small on-theme doodles

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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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if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

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when the girl is sexy < When the BERRY is SWEET

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PayPal has shut down fundraising services as of October 7th, 2024.

The crowdfunding platform has updated their policy and stated the following:

My dear friends Iyad Sohbe (@iyadsobhegaza) and Ruba Abushaban (@rubashsblog) have been raising funds with PayPal soon after GFM have unjustly terminated their individual accounts. Iyad has lost 11K while Ruba has lost access to 27K!

With this "policy" in place, it is obvious that Palestinian fundraisers are being targeted as it is established on the one year anniversary of the accelerated genocide. So it is imperative that we help them achieve their goal of 60K USD before January 12th, 2025!

So please donate and share. Time is running out. We have 3 months to raise the entire amount!

At the same time, Iyad, Ruba, and their families have gone through so much. They were staying in Deir al-Balah, but the IOF drops multiple airstrikes, and they have narrowly escaped death and have relocated to Nuseirat. So they need to purchase basic necessities as they have lost their personal belongings. They also need to pay off the high transfer fees when they withdraw the funds from the bank.

You can even match me! I've given $10 USD, but you are more than welcome to give any amount. You can even give $1 since PayPal accepts such amount.

Verification: #90 for Ruba and #173 for Iyad. (Keep in mind that the fundraisers in the Spreadsheet has not been updated to reflect the current fundraiser. Click here to read more about it.)

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hey don't know if you knew this but op of that post you just reblogged is actually an ouppy dog :/ yeah with paws. and floppy ears yeah

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end of year resolution has been to try and pick up the pen more and well i think ive been doing pretty alright.. still much i need to do but the art slutch is lessening its grip on me

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do we fw the old women bullying you 2 murdering you yuri pipeline

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bird things, trying to get back into art again

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A comic adaptation of Zoe Leonard’s “I want a dyke for president” (1992) 

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this is not normal. Palestinian students the same age as me or in many cases even YOUNGER shouldn’t have to be online 24/7 advocating for their families just so they have some money to buy food and buy a tent after their old one was destroyed by a drone strike. please don’t be desensitized by this. there is an onslaught of atrocities being committed by israel every single day but we have to keep standing up for Palestinians.

the students on my dash… they’re all so young they have aspirations they have hopes. but now they need to wake up at the crack of dawn to line up at the food distribution center not knowing if there’s a sniper somewhere watching them. this is horrific

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