Is There Anything the Bush Administration Won't Screw Up? The Hand Soap Edition

I know with a war on, the using of the Constitution for toilet paper, and so on, this concern of mine is trivial, but it is so very symbolic. By way of digby, we find out that the White House sells hand soap. And, you guessed it, it contains triclosan. Really. Why don't they just put cadmium in it? It would be so much faster. What morons.

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There's soap without triclosan?
Oh, yeah, there is. It has triclocarban instead.

How bad a problem is triclosan resistance?

By michael schmidt (not verified) on 08 Dec 2006 #permalink